Fall 2008 VT Music Performances http://www.music.vt.edu/ Squires Haymarket Theater - 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.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=424 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=424 Squires Recital Salon - 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. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=426 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=426 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. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=427 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=427 Squires Recital Salon - 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 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=428 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=428 Squires Recital Salon - Ben Beasley presents a senior horn recital featuring works by Arnold, Bernstein, Ewazen, Nielsen, Persichetti, Schumann, and Wilder.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=429 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=429 Squires Recital Salon - Brian Gendron conducts the Virginia Tech's Chamber Singers, Women's Chorale, and Men's Chorus in an eclectic program of choral music. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=431 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=431 Squires Recital Salon - 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. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=465 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=465 Lyric Theater - ***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.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=432 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=432 Squires Recital Salon - Karen Caruso presents a student voice recital.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=433 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=433 Burruss Auditorium - 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).http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=434 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=434 Squires Recital Salon - John Howell conducts The Early Music Ensemble in a Fall concert.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=435 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=435 Squires Recital Salon - 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.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=489 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=489 Squires Recital Salon - The Highlands Chapter of the Virginia Music Teacher's Association presents their Fall recital. Piano students of all ages perform.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=484 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=484 Squires Recital Salon - Ben McCarthy, trumpet and Kelly Mayhugh, soprano, present a joint junior recital. Guest artists include Kay Castagnoli, James Bryant, John Adler,and Theodore Sipes.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=480 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=480 Burruss Auditorium - 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. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=436 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=436 Squires Recital Salon - 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. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=437 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=437 Squires Haymarket Theater - 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.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=438 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=438 Burruss Auditorium - Join the University Wind Ensemble, Marching Virginians and the Jazz Bands in a fun combined concert!http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=439 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=439 Squires Recital Salon - John Floyd leads the University Percussion and Marimba Ensembles in an evening concert.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=476 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=476 Squires Recital Salon - 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. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=487 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=487 Squires Recital Salon - Virginia Tech student composers present a concert of new music featuring chamber ensembles, voice and electronics. http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=474 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=474 Squires Recital Salon - Virginia Tech's Opera Workshop presents an evening concert.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=442 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=442 Squires Recital Salon - The students of Virginia Tech faculty artist, Mary Louise Hallauer, will perform an afternoon recital.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=486 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=486 Squires Recital Salon - 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.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=479 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=479 Squires Recital Salon - 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." http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=441 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=441 Squires Recital Salon - The Department of Music's trumpet studio presents a recital under the direction of John Adler.http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=466 http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php?eventid=466