MUSIC IN MIND

Music in Mind celebrates the place music holds in our culture and lives by presenting world-class faculty, outstanding alumni and guest artists, and students in concerts that explore the artistic possibilities of collaboration. This School of Music concert series seeks to examine the sources of inspiration and points of intersection in our musical traditions, presenting music in a context that encourages reflection and discovery, whether it is something new about Bach or the work of a living composer that you are hearing for the first time.

October 4 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

A WIDER CIRCLE: THE SPIRIT OF FOLK MUSIC

Explore the influence that folk music exerts on art music with selections from Bartók’s enchanting 44 Duos for two violins, Dvorák’s original version of the ever-popular Slavonic Dances for piano four hands and Baroque violinist and composer Antonio Bertali’s lively and virtuosic Chiacona for violin, organ and harpsichord. The program concludes with a rare performance of the 13-instrument musical score for Aaron Copland’s ballet Appalachian Spring. With faculty members James Stern, Larissa Dedova, Mikhail Vokchok and Michael Votta.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL $30 ($24 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)

November 13 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

AM I TOO LOUD? A BOW TO COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE

This concert is inspired by and honors pianists who spent their professional lives playing well with others. In this program, with Rita Sloan at the piano, Evelyn Elsing, Robert Gibson, Linda Mabbs, Gregory Miller, Katherine Murdock, David Salness and Delores Ziegler pay tribute to accompanists par excellence. From Britten’s Cabaret Songs to Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, the art of musical collaboration is at the heart of the program.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL $30 ($24 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)

February 7 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

AMERICAN VOICES

American concert music arrived on the world stage in the twentieth century with composers of widely different philosophies asking the same questions: “What should American music sound like and, as a modern American, what should my music sound like?” Faculty artists Evelyn Elsing, Bradford Gowen, David Jones and Linda Mabbs present some of the most inventive answers to these questions, from the folk, blues and jazz influences in works by Foss, Loomis and Troyer to the exuberant experimentation of Cowell and Nancarrow. Anchoring the program are Griffes’s brilliant and emotional Sonata and a work of “pure Copland, ” his rarely played Sextet.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL $30 ($24 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)

March 28 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

GUARNERI & FRIENDS

Arnold Steinhardt, violin John Dalley, violin Michael Tree, viola Peter Wiley, cello The members of the legendary and retired (as of Fall 2009) Guarneri String Quartet perform with School of Music faculty artists Santiago Rodriguez, Evelyn Elsing and Katherine Murdock. Join this group of friends for an exceptional afternoon of chamber music featuring Shostakovich’s ironic Piano Quintet in G Minor, op. 57 and Brahms’s String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, op. 36. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

$30 ($24 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) April 30 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: TITANS

James Ross, music director For its final concert of 2009-2010, the UMSO performs two of the most influential works in the history of orchestral music: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, op. 14. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

$30 ($24 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)

PHOTOS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: BRADFORD GOWAN; LINDA MABBS; PHOTO OF SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ BY MIKE CIESIELSKI; PHOTO OF GUARNERI QUARTET BY STEVE SHERMAN; RITA SLOAN.

PROCEEDS FROM MUSIC IN MIND CONCERTS BENEFIT THE UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC’s UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND.