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January 2008 Performances |
Events are free admission unless otherwise stated. ($) = fee charged. |
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January 2008 Performances |
Events are free admission unless otherwise stated. ($) = fee charged. |
Day |
Date |
Time |
Performance |
Location |
| Tuesday | 1/15 | 8:00pm | Catamount Concert Series: "Songs Without Words", Faculty Recital - Daniel Cherry, trombone; and Andrew Adams, piano. Program includes vocal music transcribed for trombone and piano by Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Bernstein, and others. |
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| Friday | 1/18 | 8:00pm | WCU Trumpet Festival: Allen Vizzutti, classical trumpet, with Lillian Buss Pearson, piano. Vizzutti teaches at the University of Washington and has performed with various artists and ensembles including Chick Corea, Doc Severinsen, The NBC Tonight Show Band, the Airmen of Note, the Army Blues, Chuck Mangione, Woody Herman, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. See this article for more information on the festival. |
Recital Hall, Coulter Building (This is the correct location.) |
| Saturday | 1/19 | 5:00pm | WCU Trumpet Festival: Festival Concert features the WCU Trumpet Ensemble, other collegiate, professional and school ensembles; and the mass trumpet ensemble including all festival participants. See this article for more information on the festival. |
Recital Hall, Coulter Building |
| Saturday | 1/19 | 8:00pm | WCU Trumpet Festival: Allen Vizzutti, jazz trumpet, with Pavel Wlosok, piano, Eliot Wadopian, bass, and Byron Hedgepath, drums. Vizzutti teaches at the University of Washington and has performed with various artists and ensembles including Chick Corea, Doc Severinsen, The NBC Tonight Show Band, the Airmen of Note, the Army Blues, Chuck Mangione, Woody Herman, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. See this article for more information on the festival. |
Performance Hall, Fine and Performing Arts Center |
| Tuesday | 1/22 | 8:00pm | Catamount Concert Series: Music of Messiaen. In honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth, faculty musicians perform music from all periods of celebrated French composer Olivier Messiaen's compositional life. Performers include Brad Martin, piano and organ; Mary Kay Bauer, soprano; graduate music student Tiffany Lamb, flute; Shannon Thompson, clarinet; and Travis Bennett, horn. | Recital Hall, Coulter Building |
| Thursday | 1/24 | 7:00pm | Off-Campus Event in Asheville: Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet in a concert of music featuring faculty guest composers and performers. This is a similiar program to that performed at WCU in November. It features pieces by Pavel Wlosok, Bruce Frazier, and Shannon Thompson; and includes tenor Bill Martin. |
Chestnut Ridge Room, North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement, Reuter Center, UNC-Asheville Campus |
| Sunday | 1/27 | 4:00pm | Western Carolina Civic Orchestra: William Henigbaum, music director. | Recital Hall, Coulter Building |
| Tuesday | 1/29 | 8:00pm | Catamount Concert Series: Faculty Showcase - a variety of classical and jazz music performed by WCU instrumental and vocal music faculty. Sponsored by Heinzelmännchen Brewery of Sylva. | Recital Hall, Coulter Building |
| Thursday | 1/31 | 8:00pm | Faculty Recital : Travis Bennett, horn, with Andrew Adams, piano. Also performing are Bill Martin, tenor, and Mike Schallock, tuba. The program includes music by Schubert, Debussy, Franz Strauss, and others. | Recital Hall, Coulter Building |
Updated on January 28, 2008. Please check back often for more concert information, additions, and changes. |
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