http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/ en Copyright 2009 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Featuring UMBC music students chosen from those who performed on the Open Recitals. 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/department_of_music_honors_rec.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/department_of_music_honors_rec.html Events Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500 The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players, under the direction of Airi Yoshioka, Gita Ladd, Maria Lambros and Christian Tremblay. The ensemble investigates the instrumental chamber works of the Western Art Music, ranging from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic to contemporary repertoire. This concert will feature works by Rossini, Turina, Prokofiev, Moszkowski, Erb and Schumann. 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_chamber_players_sunday_de.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_chamber_players_sunday_de.html Events Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0500 UMBC Jazz in Concert . Featuring two small groups under the direction of Tom Lagana and Matt Belzer along with The UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matt Belzer, playing the music of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Andrew Hill, and Carla Bley. 3pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_jazz_ensemble_sunday_dece.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_jazz_ensemble_sunday_dece.html Events Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:00:00 -0500 Vocal Arts Ensemble, under the direction of Cantor Thom King featuring a cornucopia of arias, songs and ensembles (and even a Barbershop Quartet!) from Mozart to Gilbert & Sullivan to Bernstein. 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_vocal_arts_ensemble_conce.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_vocal_arts_ensemble_conce.html Events Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0500 UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. The UMBC Percussion Ensemble is a dedicated performing group of advanced percussion students. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theatre, as well as works by important early percussion composers, such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, and Carlos Chavez. The Ensemble has established a tradition of performing works by UMBC's faculty and student composers, who sometimes include members of the ensemble. 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_percussion_ensemble_thurs_1.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_percussion_ensemble_thurs_1.html Events Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500 Featuring UMBC music students. 12noon, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/open_recital_wednesday_decembe.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/open_recital_wednesday_decembe.html Events Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500 UMBC New Music Ensemble under the direction of Stuart Saunders Smith. 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. ]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_new_music_ensemble_wednes_1.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_new_music_ensemble_wednes_1.html Events Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500 Featuring UMBC music students. 12noon, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/open_recital_monday_december_7.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/open_recital_monday_december_7.html Events Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500 UMBC Gospel Choir under the direction of Janice Jackson. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Donations accepted. ]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_jubilee_singers_saturday.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_jubilee_singers_saturday.html Events Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:00:00 -0500 UMBC Camerata under the direction of Stephen Caracciolo, featuring the Missa Brevis in C, KV220 ("Sparrow Mass") by W.A. Mozart. The work will be performed with a chamber instrumental ensemble. The remainder of the program will feature concert carols for the holiday. 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_camerata_friday_december.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_camerata_friday_december.html Events Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0500 Featuring UMBC Music students. 12noon, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/open_recital_friday_december_4.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/open_recital_friday_december_4.html Events Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0500 UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Richard Spece. The Ensemble is comprised of exceptional woodwind, brass and percussion performers who enjoy the challenge of performing excellent concert literature. The program will feature: • Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance • Symphony for Band by Vincent Persichetti • Vesuvius by Frank Tichelli • October by Eric Whitacre • Awayday by Adam Gorb 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Donations Accepted.]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_wind_ensemble_thursday_de.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_wind_ensemble_thursday_de.html Events Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500 UMBC Collegium under the direction of Joseph Morin. The Collegium Musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. Performers are given the opportunity to sing in a variety of conventional and extended vocal styles, and to play recorder, krummhorn, racket, cornetto, shawm, sackbut, viol da gamba, vielle, harp, organetto, lute, and other historical instruments from the UMBC Department of Music's collection of instruments. 8pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_collegium_wednesday_decem.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/12/umbc_collegium_wednesday_decem.html Events Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0500 UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of E. Michael Richards, featuring: Copland - Dance Episodes from "Rodeo" Barber - Adagio for Strings , with Elizabeth Shin, conductor Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. ]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/11/umbc_symphony_orchestra_sunday.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/11/umbc_symphony_orchestra_sunday.html Events Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500 Gravity's Ghost for piccolo solo. His program at UMBC will feature several of his own compositions, including Flames Must Not Encircle Sides (1980), Afterlight (1973), Piece in Gamelan Style (1978), Lookout (1989), Fish Are Jumping (1999), Air is the Heaviest Metal (2008), Eye in the Sky, for open hole alto flute (1992) and Sliding Life Blues, for flute with Glissando Headjoint®, (2001). Presented by the UMBC Department of Music’s TNT series. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID.]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/11/robert_dick_sunday_november_15.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/music/2009/11/robert_dick_sunday_november_15.html Events Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500