Bassoonarama, December 16, 2019

Robert Blocker, Dean

ysm ensembles

Bassoonarama 2019 Countdown: 125-100-95-50…341(?)…

HAPPY ANNIVERSARIES! Music that celebrates some important dates Monday, December 16, 2019 | 7:30 pm | Sudler Recital Hall 2019–2020 YSM Bassoon Studio Eleni Katz ’20MM Philip McNaughton ’20MM Mateen Milan ’21MM Molly Murphy ’21MMA Andrew Sledge ’20MM Tamara Snyder ’21MM with guest alumna Dana Brink ’19MM and... the Godfather: Frank Morelli, director

Alan M. Hirsch ’1901BA & Cole Porter ’1913BA ’1960DHL.Hon arr. Thomas C. Duffy

Michel Corrette 1707–1795

125th Anniversary 1894: Establishment of the Yale School of Music Bulldog/Boola Boola March for eight bassoons Solar System Premiere

50th Anniversary 1969: Women First Matriculated in Yale College Concert ‘Le Phénix’ I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Allegro

Program, cont.

Ezra Laderman 1924–2015

95th Birthday 1924: Birth Year of Former Dean and Professor of Composition, Ezra Laderman Partita for solo bassoon (2012) VI. Moderato

Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741 arr. for 5 bassoons by Nathan Koch

341st Birthday 1678: Birth Year of Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in C major for bassoon and strings, RV 470 I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro

The Parade of 50th Anniversaries continues!

Nino Rota 1911–1979 Pietro Mascagni 1863–1945 arr. Nicolás Cortés Castillo Bart Howard 1915–2004 arr. JEPH Glenn Miller 1904–1944 arr. Keith Terrett

Jeff Moss 1942–1998 arr. Tim Olt

1969: The Godfather Movie Released The Godfather Waltz The Godfather Theme (arr. Cornelia Sommer ’16mm) Michael’s Theme Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana (1890)

1969: “The Eagle has Landed” Fly Me to the Moon (1954)

Moonlight Serenade (1939)

1969: Sesame Street Began Rubber Duckie (1970)

Joe Raposo 1937–1989 arr. Frank Morelli Duke Ellington & Barney Bigard arr. Robert Elkjer Billy Hayes & Jay W. Johnson arr. Roger Wallace

100th Anniversaries 1919: Yale’s Official Color Changed from Green to Blue Bein’ Green (1970)

Mood Indigo (1930)

Blue Christmas (1948)

…also in 1919: The Hostess Cupcake Was Born!

Celebrated tonight with free treats and bonus Christmas tunes

As a courtesy to others, please silence all devices. Photography and recording of any kind is strictly prohibited. Please do not leave the hall during musical selections. Thank you.

Upcoming Events Catherine Russell Ellington Jazz Series “One of jazz’s most celebrated vocalists, an incandescent performer who can make a century-old blues song as fresh and bracing as tomorrow’s bad news.” — San Francisco Chronicle 7:30 pm | Morse Recital Hall

Tickets start at $22, students $10 jan 17

Melvin Chen Horowitz Piano Series A performance of Janaček’s In the Mists, faculty composer Hannah Lash’s Six Etudes and a Dream, and Shostakovich’s infrequently performed Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor.

7:30 pm | Morse Recital Hall

Tickets start at $15, students $7

jan 22

Peter Oundjian, principal conductor Yale Philharmonia The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth is celebrated with a performance of the composer’s Choral Fantasy, with the Yale Glee Club and faculty pianist Boris Berman; the Triple Concerto, with violinist and YSM alumna Sunmi Chang, faculty cellist Paul Watkins, and faculty pianist Melvin Chen; and the revolutionary Third Symphony, “Eroica.”

7:30 pm | Woolsey Hall Tickets start at $12, Yale faculty/ staff $8, students free $3 surcharge at the door jan 24

Brentano String Quartet Oneppo Chamber Music Series A performance of Bruce Adolphe’s Coiled and the work on which it’s based, Beethoven’s “Serioso” Quartet, along with music by Bach, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich.

7:30 pm | Morse Recital Hall

Tickets start at $28, students $13

jan 28

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