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Winter Music Events
Winter Music
FACULTY RECITAL: ARIAS AND BARCAROLLES: CANZONAS, SONATAS AND and TOCCATAS
JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO WILLIAM MCCORKLE, HARPSICHORD SCOTT WILLIAMSON, BARITONE
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Featuring tenor arias and cello solos from Antonio Vivaldi and Benjamin Britten and keyboard works of Claudio Merulo and Andrea Gabrieli. This program connects music and history in Venice. Arias and Barcarolles also highlights the Italian Baroque’s influence across geographies and eras. Arias from the operas of Britten and Vivaldi frame the latter’s cello sonata in a program of rarely-heard chamber works.
JENEFER DAVIES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TERRY VOSBEIN, JAZZ DIRECTOR
Thursday, March 10 2022 Friday, March 11, 2022 Saturday, March 12, 2022
7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Keller Theatre Lenfest Hall
Tickets are required. Adult $18 Senior $16 W&L Faculty & Staff $14 W&L Student/Student $8
Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing. • Performance will be streamed at no charge. https://livestream.com/wlu
The W&L Repertory Dance Company and the University Jazz Ensemble join forces for an artistic evening to remember. In the firstever collaboration between these two groups, syncopation, complex chords, and improvisation will drive rich, experimental movement that will set everyone’s toes to tapping. Set in 1950s New Orleans, the Keller stage will be transformed into a jazz club featuring student composers paired with student choreographers, guest artists creating work to established jazz pieces, and Jenefer Davies, and Terry Vosbein collaborating on a world premiere. Through it all, the University Jazz Ensemble’s driving beat will be front and center.
SENIOR RECITAL: KEREN KATZ ’22, SOPRANO
Sunday, March 13, 2022 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
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Keren Katz ’22 of Wayne, Pennsylvania, will perform selections from the art song, opera and musical theater repertoire.
WINTER CHORALCONCERT
Tickets are free, but required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Enjoy an evening with Cantatrici and The Glee Club performing a wide variety of choral classics from Palestrina to modern works by B2M. Cantatrici will be featured performing a Middle Eastern chant complete with traditional dance movements, and the Glee Club will feature a stirring version of What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Both choirs will then join together and finish out the concert with works from around the world, with a particular focus on highlighting the music of South America.
Sunday, March 20, 2022 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Anna Billias, piano; Jaime McArdle, violin; Julia Goudimova, cello; Megan Mason, viola
The Marlbrook Players continue its presence in the form of an all-women quartet. This concert’s theme was born out of appreciation for female composers who allow their sensitive and expressive nature to be experienced in their works. The world of a woman is enigmatic and mysterious, definitely worth exploration!
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT FANTASIA SINFONICA
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The University Orchestra is excited to present an evening of music that evokes fantasy. The Ferry Crossing by Jennifer Jolly presents the excitement of having to take a ferry to the place that you live and all of the myth that goes along with that unique experience. Also included is Enrique Granados’ Liliana Suite, and Symphony No. 1 by Jean Sibelius which the composer himself originally titled Fantasia Sinfonia No. 1. Join the UO for an evening of imagination inspiring music!
SENIOR RECITAL: MISSY THOMAS ’22, VIOLIN
Friday, March 25, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Missy Thomas is a music and German double major from Wiesbaden, Germany. She will perform a variety of works from Vaughan Williams and a Sonata from Grieg, among other pieces, that will highlight the lyricism and range of both the violin and the viola, her secondary instrument.
SENIOR RECITAL: TRUMAN CHANCY ’22, SAXOPHONE
Friday, April 1, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Truman Chancy, a senior music major from Richmond, Virginia, will showcase the diverse capabilities of the alto saxophone through a performance of expressive classical works and creative improvisations on jazz standards.
SENIOR RECITAL: ELI BRADLEY ’22, PIANO
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Eli Bradley, a senior biochemistry major and music minor from Nashville, Tennessee, will perform piano compositions ranging from the poetic genius of Chopin and the rich, expressive music of Rachmaninov to the glittering harmonies of Debussy and virtuosic dissonance of Prokofiev.
FACULTY RECITAL: ANIMA E GRAZIA FROM VIENNA WITH LOVE
JULIA GOUDIMOVA, CELLO ANNA BILLIAS, PIANO Sunday, April 3, 2022 3 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
As the opulent capital of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, Vienna was one of the biggest musical centers of classical-era Europe. It attracted the most famous composers and musicians of that time. The duet Anima e Grazia will lead you through some of the most brilliant compositions of that place and time with their presentation of From Vienna with Love.
UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT CONCERTO-ARIA WINNER CONCERT CHASING SPRING
Monday, April 4, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Join the University Wind Ensemble for a musical harbinger of spring. Featuring Cait Nishimura’s Chasing Sunlight and Alfred Reed’s The Hounds of Spring, this concert will ring in the season of new life. Also featured will be works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Howard Hanson, Felix Mendelssohn and Leonard Bernstein. Join us for an uplifting evening of beautiful music to celebrate spring!
UNIVERSITY SINGERS TOUR KICK-OFF CONCERT
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Tickets are free, but required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
Join the renowned University Singers as they kick-off their 2022 Irish Choir Tour for the 100th Anniversary of Irish Independence with an evening of a capella choral mastery. The tour will include showcase performances in Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Londonderry, and elsewhere, featuring the choir performing music from Bach to An Irish Blessing composed specifically for the tour by conductor Shane Lynch. The heart of the concert will be two sets, one based around Irish music featuring works by modern Irish composer Seán Doherty and the world debut of a commissioned work on a text by Yeats by Australian-American composer Melissa Dunphy, and the second set of visually and aurally evocative music based around modern works such as Michael Ostrzyga’s powerful Iuppiter and Santiago Veros’ Galaxias. Finally, we close the program with folk songs and other works of Americana that are always audience favorites.
No tickets are required. • Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu
With spring in the air, the University Jazz Ensemble springs into swing with the annual end-of-year concert. Having fine-tuned their sound all year, it is exciting to put it all on display for one final time. The talented student musicians are eager to show off their accomplishments. Expect to hear soulful soloists, tightly-knit ensembles, and original music from the director and band members.
