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Performance Listing

University Jazz Bands with guest saxophonist, Tim Ries - 8:00 pm, Friday, October 17, 2008 - Squires Haymarket Theater [map]
The Virginia Tech Jazz Ensemble features guest saxophonist and composer Tim Ries (www.timries.com) in it's first fall concert of 2008. Tim is best known for his work with the Rolling Stones and has played with numerous jazz and pop music greats including Joe Henderson, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Maynard Ferguson, and Maria Schneider.


Faculty Recital: University Chamber Music II, New Music From Virginia Tech - 8:00 pm, Saturday, October 18, 2008 and 3:00 pm, Sunday, October 19, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Virginia Tech celebrates the music of music composition faculty members Kent Holliday, James Miley, Ico Bukvic, and other influential contemporary composers. Virginia Tech music faculty artists and guests will perform.


Blacksburg Master Chorale: Songs of Celebration: Music for Chorus, Brass, Organ, and Percussion - 7:30 pm, Friday, October 24, 2008 - St. Mary's Catholic Church
The Blacksburg Master Chorale opens their 21st season with an exciting program of repertoire that unites the chorus with the festive sounds of brass, percussion and organ. The program includes Rutter's Gloria, as well as works by Gabrieli, Purcell, Vaughan Williams and Walton.


Musica Viva presents Romantic Sextets - 7:30 pm, Saturday, October 25, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Musica Viva presents performers Adela Pena, violin, Marc Johnson, cello, Sheila Browne, viola, David Ehrlich, violin, Benjamin Wyatt, cello, and Teresa Ehrlich, piano. Pieces include P. Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence and R. Strauss, String Sextet from the Opera Capriccio


Student Recital: Ben Beasley, horn - 3:00 pm, Sunday, October 26, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Ben Beasley presents a senior horn recital featuring works by Arnold, Bernstein, Ewazen, Nielsen, Persichetti, Schumann, and Wilder.


University Choirs - 8:00 pm, Saturday, November 1, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Brian Gendron conducts the Virginia Tech's Chamber Singers, Women's Chorale, and Men's Chorus in an eclectic program of choral music.


Blacksburg Community Strings & Chamber Orchestra - 3:00 pm, Sunday, November 2, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
The Blacksburg Community Strings and Chamber Orchestra begin their 10th Anniversary Season--the 9th under the baton of Ake-Eric Renqvist--with a varied program featuring Blacksburg pianist Joetta Petersen playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in A Major, K488. Also on the program are Gustave Holst's "St. Paul's Suite" for string orchestra, Jean Sibelius' "Valse Triste," and Georges Bizet's "L'Arl?sienne Suite No. 2." "Gabriel's Oboe" by Ennio Morricone from the motion picture "The Mission," will feature oboe soloist Meredith McCree. Admission is free and open to the public.


University Chamber Music III: Opera Roanoke - 8:00 pm, Monday, November 3, 2008 - Lyric Theater [map]
***One night only at Blacksburg's historic Lyric Theater. Opera Roanoke, under the direction of maestro Steven White, presents Gustav Mahler's masterpiece, Das Lied von der Erde (Songs of the Earth). Performed in Arnold Schoenberg's ingenious transcription for chamber orchestra, the program will feature mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby and tenor Donald George in this expansive song-symphony that explores life, death and renewal in the context of nature. Also featured, the gilded splendor of George Frederick Handel's vocal music, with soprano Elizabeth Futral singing a collection of some of the great master's most beautiful and exciting opera arias.


Student Recital: Karen Caruso, Soprano - 3:00 pm, Saturday, November 8, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Karen Caruso presents a student voice recital.


University Wind Ensemble and Campus Band - 8:00 pm, Saturday, November 8, 2008 - Burruss Auditorium [map]
Travis Cross and Will Peterson conduct the student ensembles in an evening concert. Works include Leonard Bernstein's Slava! (transcribed by Clare Grundman), Aaron Copland's Down a Country Lane (transcribed by Merlin Patterson), David Maslanka's Give Us This Day, Ralph Manuel's Alleluia (transcribed by Travis J. Cross), Charles Ives' Variations on America (transcribed by William Schuman/William Rhoads), and Samuel Augustus Ward's America, the Beautiful (arranged by Carmen Dragon).


Early Music Ensemble - 8:00 pm, Sunday, November 9, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
John Howell conducts The Early Music Ensemble in a Fall concert.


Student Recital: Sarah Campbell, Saxophone - 8:00 pm, Friday, November 14, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Sarah Campbell performs her senior saxophone recital. Works will include compositions by Vaughn Williams, Naulais, Bozza and saxophone quartet pieces by Bach and Faure. James Bryan will assist on piano.


Highlands Chapter VMTA Fall Recital - 12:30 pm, Saturday, November 15, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
The Highlands Chapter of the Virginia Music Teacher's Association presents their Fall recital. Piano students of all ages perform.


Student Recital: Ben McCarthy, trumpet and Kelly Mayhugh, soprano - 3:00 pm, Saturday, November 15, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Ben McCarthy, trumpet and Kelly Mayhugh, soprano, present a joint junior recital. Guest artists include Kay Castagnoli, James Bryant, John Adler,and Theodore Sipes.


New River Valley Symphony Orchestra - 8:00 pm, Saturday, November 15, 2008 - Burruss Auditorium [map]
James Glazebrook conducts the New River Valley Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring the Roanoke Symphony Horn Section. Works include Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann's Concert-piece for Four Horns and Mussorgsky/Ravel's Pictures at an Exhibition.


Faculty Recital: David Jacobsen, flute and Robert Trent, guitar - 3:00 pm, Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Flutist David Jacobsen and Radford guitarist, Robert Trent, join forces to present a program including the Grand Duo Concertante, Op. 85 by Mauro Guiliani, Mountain Songs (based an Appalachian and Southern folk songs) by Robert Beaser, and the premiere of Four Romantic Songs by VT composer, Kent Holliday.


University Jazz Bands - 8:00 pm, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - Squires Haymarket Theater [map]
The music of guest composer and pianist Dan Cavanagh (www.dancavanagh.com) will be presented in the final jazz concert of the fall semester. This concert will feature the Virginia Tech Jazz Ensemble, the Virginia Tech Jazz Lab Band, and chamber ensembles.


Band-O-Rama, University Bands Concert - 7:30 pm, Friday, November 21, 2008 - Burruss Auditorium [map]
Join the University Wind Ensemble, Marching Virginians and the Jazz Bands in a fun combined concert!


University Percussion and Marimba Ensembles - 8:00 pm, Monday, December 1, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
John Floyd leads the University Percussion and Marimba Ensembles in an evening concert.


Student Soloist Competition - 7:30 pm, Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Student Soloist Competition: Virginia Tech students audition for an opportunity to perform with the University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Travis Cross. Winners will perform with the University Symphonic Wind Ensemble in April, 2009.


Student Composition Recital - 8:00 pm, Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Virginia Tech student composers present a concert of new music featuring chamber ensembles, voice and electronics.


Opera Workshop - 8:00 pm, Friday, December 5, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Virginia Tech's Opera Workshop presents an evening concert.


Piano Studio Recital - 3:00 pm, Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
The students of Virginia Tech faculty artist, Mary Louise Hallauer, will perform an afternoon recital.


Guest Artist Recital: Compositions of Kent Holliday - 8:00 pm, Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
On December 6, 2008, pianists Nicholas Ross of Sweet Briar College and Emily Chua of Randolph College will present a program of piano music by Virginia Tech composer Kent Holliday in the Salon Recital Hall. Solo pieces composed over the past twenty years and the six movement suite "Hawaiiana" for piano four-hands will be performed. Nick Ross has played at the university several times before, including a performance with the New River Valley Symphony Orchestra. Emily Chua will be heard for the first time at Virginia Tech on the University Chamber Music Composers Concerts October 18 and 19 in addition to her performance here in December. The December 6th concert is open to the public and begins at 8:00 p.m.


Faculty Recital: Theodore Sipes, Baritone - 3:00 pm, Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
Faculty artist Theodore Sipes, baritone and guest artist pianist, Erica Sipes perform a program of engaging vocal art music. The program will include a group of Aria Antiche, Robert Schumann's "Liederkreis," opus 24, Francis Poulenc's "Le Travail du Peintre" and selections from Gerald Finzi's "Earth and Air and Rain."


Trumpet Studio Recital - 8:00 pm, Monday, December 8, 2008 - Squires Recital Salon [map]
The Department of Music's trumpet studio presents a recital under the direction of John Adler.


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