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September

26 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Fredric Cohen 30th Anniversary Concert Fredric T. Cohen and friends

October

3 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE On the Edge Jonathan Hulting-Cohen & Nadine Shank

4 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Felipe Salles’s Interconnections Ensemble Felipe Salles & big band

8 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Schubert at the Keyboard Nigel Coxe (Emeritus)

11 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE The Voice of the Clarinet Romie de Guise-Langlois and friends

15 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE All in the UMass Family Gregory Spiridopoulos with faculty, spouses, & guests

November 2 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Salon Music Wind faculty coordinated by Matthew Westgate

15 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE From Haydn to Hoedown Edward Arron, Elizabeth Chang, Cobus du Toit, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen & Nadine Shank

Performances by our world class faculty are now free and open to the public!

Wednesday, October 25 7:30pm | FAC Concert HallUMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra: Welcome Morihiko!Morihiko Nakahara begins his tenure as Director of Orchestral Studies with a rousing program of Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Dvořák 's Cello Concerto featuring faculty cellist Edward Arron, plus Mason Bates’s Attack Decay Sustain Release

Sunday, October 1 7:30pm | Bezanson Recital Hall Centenary Concert: The Music of Philip Bezanson Featuring William Hite, tenor; Gilles Vonsattel, piano & othersCelebrate one of the iconic early leaders of our music program while helping to ensure a strong and vibrant future for our Department. $25 Patron tickets available; includes reserved seating and reception with the artists. Regular tickets $10 / $5

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Information413-577-2154 or Check out our new website umass.edu/music/events Follow us on Facebook @UMassMusicDance

Ticket Prices* UMass Amherst students................... FREE (New!) Other students, seniors, children....... $5 General Public.................................... $10

*Except Multiband Pops on 10/20 and Univ Dancers on 11/30-12/2)

Minuteman Marching Band

August 26 | Hawai'i

September 9 | Old Dominion 30 | Ohio

October 21 | Homecoming, Georgia Southern 28 | Band Day Appalachian State 29 | MICCA Finals (in Lawrence, MA)

November 11 | Maine (at Fenway Park)

December 1 | Merry Maple (in the Amherst Town Common) Watch for the “Power and Class” at the Tournament of Roses Parade January 1, 2018, 11am

Free Faculty Concerts

Friday, October 20 7:30pm | CH | $25 / $18 43rd Annual Multiband Pops Concert on Homecoming Weekend Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer/coordinator Showcase of 15 wind, brass, choral, orchestral, dance & percussion ensembles plus the Minuteman Marching Band

At McGuirk Stadium (unless otherwise noted)Tinothy T. Anderson director | Thom Hannum associate director

For football game times & details see umassathletics.com For Marching Band information see umass.edu/band

october

3 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Concert: On the Edge Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, saxophone & Nadine Shank, piano Music by Giacinto Scelsi, Edison Denisov, David Liebman & David Amram: Three Greenwich Village Portraits4 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Concert: Felipe Salles’s Interconnections Ensemble Felipe Salles, composer and conductor, presents The Lullaby Project, his five-movement suite for big band, plus tangos & more

8 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Emeritus Concert: Schubert at the Keyboard Nigel Coxe, piano Music by Franz Schubert

11 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Concert: The Voice of the Clarinet Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet With Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano; Edward Arron, cello & guest Jeewon Park, piano Music by Schubert, Weber, Glinka & more13 Friday | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 Jazz Ensemble I and Chapel Jazz Jeffrey W. Holmes & Thomas Giampietro, director15 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty/Guest Concert: All in the UMass Family Gregory Spiridopoulos, trombone, with faculty, spouses, & guests Jason Hooper, Matthew Westgate, & Ben Smar, trombone; Emiliano Ricciardi & Allyson Michal, violin; Karl Knapp, cello; Sheffra Spiridopoulos, horn & Erica Drake, percussion Music by Prokofiev, Saglietti, Small, and others16 Monday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Guest Artist Concert, Masterclass, Q & A Michael Wayne, clarinet, Boston Symphony Orchestra

23 Monday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Symphony Band Matthew Westgate, conductor

26 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Jazz Lab Ensemble Dann Friedman, director

27 Friday | 8pm | BRH | FREE Guest Artist Concert Nathan Jorgensen, saxophones & Aaron Ragsdale, percussion

28 Saturday | 5:30pm | CH | FREE High School & Collegiate Choral Festival MassACDA Honors Choirs with UMass Chamber Choir & Chorale Tony Thornton & Stephen A. Paparo, conductors; Susan Conkling & Anthony Trecek-King, guest conductors

28 Saturday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Guest Artist Recital: Lawler & Fadoul Zara Lawler, flute & Paul J. Fadoul, marimba

30 Monday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Brass of UMass Brass Student Chamber Ensembles

7 Thursday | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 Jazz Ensemble I Jeffrey W. Holmes, director New student & faculty works plus seasonal favorites

9 Saturday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Chamber Choir, Chorale, Women’s & Recital Choirs: Holiday Card to Amherst Tony Thornton & Stephen A. Paparo, conductors

10 Sunday | 2pm | BRH | $10 / $5 Vocal Jazz Ensemble Catherine Jensen-Hole, director

11 Monday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra Morihiko Nakahara, director Joshua Michal, horn Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

12 Tues | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 Chapel Jazz & Jazz Lab Ensembles Thomas Giampietro & Dann Friedman, directors

1 Friday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Euridice Baroque Ensemble Robert Eisenstein, director

2 Saturday | 7:30pm | BOW | $10 / $5 Marimba Bands & Ensembles Thomas Hannum, director

3 Sunday | 4:30pm | BRH | FREE Guest Artist Concert: Sax & Strings Duo Montagnard: Joseph Murphy, saxophone & Matthew Slotkin, guitar Plus the Admiral Launch Duo: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, saxophone & Jennifer R. Ellis, harp Includes selections from the Vox Novus 15 Minutes of Fame project

4 Monday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Wind Ensemble & Concert Band Matthew Westgate & Timothy T. Anderson, conductors Nadine Shank, piano Includes music by Hindemith and a piano concerto premiere by David Maslanka

6 Wednesday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Symphony Band & Percussion Ensemble Matthew Westgate & Ayano Kataoka, directors

2 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Chamber Winds Concert: Salon Music Matthew Westgate, coordinator William Walton: Façade: An Entertainment & Kurt Weill: Little Threepenny Music9 Thursday | 7:30pm | BRH | $10 / $5 Opus One Chamber Orchestra A faculty-student collaboration

14 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE String Chamber Music Elizabeth Chang, coordinator15 Wednesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Chamber Concert: From Haydn to Hoedown Haydn: Londoner Trio; Beethoven: Ghost Trio; Mantovani: L’oeuf; Peterson: Trio; Henryson: Off Pist Edward Arron, cello; Elizabeth Chang, violin; Cobus du Toit, flute; Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, saxophone & Nadine Shank, piano17 Friday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Brass Bash Trombone & Brass Choirs, Horn, Trumpet & Tuba Ensembles Greg Spiridopoulos, Eric Berlin, Josh Michal & John Bottomley, directors

18 Saturday | 9am-5pm | BRH | FREE Western Mass Flute Day Cobus du Toit, coordinator Guest Artist Concert at 4:30pm: Christina Jennings, University of Colorado, Boulder29 Wednesday | 7:30pm | Grace Church | FREE Five College Early Music Collegium Robert Eisenstein, director

september FIVE COLLEGE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 8-10

8 Friday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Five Colleges and Beyond Music by Dan Warner, Robert Stern, Gunther Schuller, David Sanford & Don Wheelock

9 Saturday | 2pm | BRH | FREE New Duos and Five College Composition Competition Winner Competition winner plus violin duos by Stan Charkey, Bruce Quaglia & Dayton Kinney; saxophone duo by Christine Delphine Hedden

9 Saturday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Old as New Again: The Art of Transcription Music by György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, Charles Wuorinen, Henri Dutilleux & Salvatore Macchia

10 Sunday | 3pm | BRH | FREE New Music Masters Music by John Harbison, György Kurtág, Morton Feldman, George Crumb & Frank Bennett

Five College Opera: The Scarlet Professor Sept 15, 16, 23 | 8pm; 17 & 24 | 3pm Mendenhall Center for the Arts, Smith College Music by Eric Sawyer; Libretto by Harley Erdman; Stage Director: Ron Bashford; Music Director: Eduardo Leandro; Featuring William Hite, UMass Voice faculty as Prof. Newton Arvin thescarletprofessoropera.com

26 Tuesday | 7:30pm | BRH | FREE Faculty Concert: Fredric Cohen 30th Anniversary Concert Fredric T. Cohen, oboe with Ayano Kataoka, percussion; Lawrence Schipull, organ; Basil Reeve, oboe & Salvatore Macchia, double bass. Includes Macchia’s Isónnia and Henri Dutilleux’s Les Citations

30 Nov. & 1-2 Dec. | 7:30pm | Totman Performance Lab | $14 / $5 University Dancers Co-Artistic Directors: Tom Vacanti and Leslie Frye Maietta A surrealist evening of dance theatre inspired by Pablo Neruda and Federico Garcia-Lorca

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music&danceDepartment of

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & FINE ARTS

FALL 2017calendar of events

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BRH = Bezanson Recital Hall • BOW = Bowker Auditorium • CH = Fine Arts Center Concert HallVENUE KEY

10 Tuesday | 7:30pm | CH | FREE, tickets required U.S. Marine Band (The President’s Own)The return of our own Lt. Col. Jason K. Fettig ‘97 ’98, U.S. Marine Band Director and White House music advisor, with Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr., guest conductor.

20 Friday | 7:30pm | CH | $25 / $18 43rd Annual Multiband Pops Concert Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer/coordinator Showcase of 15 wind, brass, choral, orchestral, dance & percussion ensembles plus the Minuteman Marching Band. Includes John Williams’ Star Wars theme and more

Photos: Richard Ares, Ben Barnhart, Eric Berlin, Jim Coleman, Jon Crispin, Pat Mahon, Bill Sitler, John Solem, Hamilton Studios

25 Wednesday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 UMass Amherst Symphony Orchestra: Welcome Morihiko! Morihiko Nakahara, director Edward Arron, cello Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor; Mason Bates: Attack Decay Sustain Release

1 Sunday | 7:30pm | BRH Centenary Concert: The Music of Philip Bezanson William Hite, tenor; Gilles Vonsattel, piano & others $10 / $5 / $25 patron, includes reserved seating & reception with the artists

6 Friday | 7:30pm | CH | $10 / $5 Wind Ensemble with New England Brass Band Matthew Westgate & Stephen Bulla, conductors, Eric Berlin, trumpet soloist Includes Joseph Turrin’s The Sounding of the Call