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Concert Guild Events
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Anita Graef, cello; Emily Seaberry Graef, flute; Julian Graef, violin, viola
Described by the Galena Gazette as “world class,” the spectacular Juliani Ensemble will open the Concert Guild’s 2022-2023 season with a program that features the Trio in G Major by Carl Stamitz as well as Joseph Haydn’s Trio No. 3 in G Major, also known as the “London” Trio. Additionally, the concert will include rarely heard chamber works by Reinhold Glière, François Devienne and Franz Danzi. The core of the ensemble is comprised primarily of members of the multi-generational Graef family musicians.
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PIANO
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A native Texan and graduate of Rice University’s prestigious Shepherd School of Music, Noah Alden Hardaway is pursuing a doctorate in piano performance at Shenandoah Conservatory under the guidance of John O’Conor. Additionally, he has been coached by Vadym Kholodenko and other Moscow Conservatory artists. Hardaway, described as “a technically gifted young virtuoso” by the Chestnut Hill Local, will perform a varied program featuring Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Frederic Rzewski among other pieces. Rzewski, who passed away in June 2021, was considered one of the most significant American pianist-composers of his generation.
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IT’S COMPLICATED... SONGS AND SCENES ON RELATIONSHIPS
Collective Euphonia members: Julia Goudimova (cello); Anna Billias (piano); Scott Williamson (tenor)
Tickets are required. Adults $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No Charge ID required
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Collective Euphonia presents a program of songs, opera and musical theater scenes exploring the adventurous complications of a wide range of relationships. Samuel Barber’s one-act opera, A Hand of Bridge is the centerpiece of a program featuring scenes from Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, staged art songs and excerpts from Brahms’ Liebeslieder waltzes.
Scott Williamson leads a vocal quartet. WLU music faculty and Collective members, Anna Billias, piano, Julia Goudimova, cello, and William McCorkle, piano/ harpsichord are collaborative artists for this chamber program premiere.
Founded by Williamson in 2019, Collective Euphonia is a flexible, interdisciplinary, self-governing ensemble of creative professionals. The group combines art, dance, music, poetry and theater in site-specific residencies. Their acclaimed debut residency at the Taubman Museum of Art and Temple Emanuel in Roanoke, Virginia, explored the relations of culture, faith and sensuality in the Hebrew Song of Songs. Collective artists collaborate in a democratic creative process from the planning stages to the concert platforms, impacting audiences through multi-modal programming and unexpected intersectionalities.
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MATT HAIMOVITZ, CELLO A MOVEABLE FEAST
...ferociously talented cellist who brings his megawatt sound and uncommon expressive gifts to a vast variety of styles.” ~NEW YORK TIMES
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A Moveable Feast is the unique programming concept that cellist Matt Haimovitz will bring to campus during his residency February 12-14. Haimovitz will present a master class for student cellists on February 12, followed by performances of one of the six Bach solo cello suites and one companion overture for solo cello by a contemporary composer at three sites around campus throughout the day on February 13. On February 14, Haimovitz will bring the three-day event to a close with a recital of the remaining three Bach cello suites and three overtures. What a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day!
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PICKENS WORLD MUSIC & LENFEST CENTER
She’s got it. She’s a queen, and an honest woman.” ~JIM HYNES, ELMORE MAGAZINE
Friday March 10, 2023 8 p.m. Wilson Concert Hall
Davis conveys intense emotion without overkill...”“
~DAVID WHITEIS, LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE Tickets are required. Adult $25 Senior $20 W&L Faculty & Staff $15 W&L Student/Student No charge ID required
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Thornetta Davis, known as “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues,” and her band will bring their authentic and award-winning show to W&L. Davis has opened for blues legends B.B. King, Ray Charles, Etta James, KoKo Taylor, Johnny Johnson, Bonnie Raitt and more. She is a seventime Blues Foundation Blues Music Awards nominee including two 2022 BMA nominations for contemporary blues artist female and best instrumentalist vocals. Down Beat Magazine’s 2018 Monterey Jazz Fest performance review stated, “The follow-up at the Garden Stage on Saturday blew the crowd away. In her first-time performing at Monterey, “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues, Thornetta Davis, sang with no-nonsense sass, fearless in her missives against lovers as she preached the blues.”
