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Music Department Events

April 2012

Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Commonwealth Brass Quintet

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz at Bucknell


Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 12 noon
Classroom 117 Sigfried Weis Music Building

Music in Culture Alumni Colloquium*: Matthew Morrow '02

Reading 'Nature's Book': An Ecocritical Analysis of Debussy's Music and Criticism


Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 7:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Gallery Series: Theo Bleckmann, voice

 

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Recital

 

Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 9 a.m. to 12 noon
Walls Lounge, Elaine Langone Center

Music Education Methodology Series*: Kodaly Method Workshop with Sarah Bartolome

 

Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Symphonic Band Spring Concert
William Kenny, conductor

Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 2:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Concert Chorale Spring Concert
William Payn, conductor

Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Recital

Friday, April 20, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell Jazz Band Spring Concert
Barry Long, director

Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell Orchestra Spring Concert
Christopher Para, conductor

Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Recital

Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 8:00 p.m.
Rooke Chapel

Rooke Chapel Ringers Spring Concert
William Payn, conductor

Sunday, April 29, 2012

1:00 p.m. - Piano Department Recital: Students from the studios of Barry Hannigan and Sezi Seskir
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

7:30 p.m. - Rooke Chapel Choir Spring Concert: William Payn, conductor
Rooke Chapel

Monday, April 30, 2012
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Composition Class Recital
Students of Joseph Eidson

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz at Bucknell


*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University

 

 

March 2012

Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Faculty Recital: Leslie Cullen, flute, & Colleen Hartung, clarinet

Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Anna Uehara, flute


Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz at Bucknell


Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Faculty Recital: Sezi Seskir, piano, & James Barbato, tenor

 

Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 12 noon
Classroom 117 Sigfried Weis Music Building

Music in Culture Alumni Colloquium*: Megan Rancier '01

Present Echoes of the Ancient Past: The Kazakh Qyl-Qobyz and 'The Sound of Modern Kazakh Nomads'

 

Friday, March 30, 2012 - 7:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Gallery Series: Keith Kirchoff, piano

 

Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell Opera Company Performance
Catherine Payn, director


*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University

 

 

February 2012

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz at Bucknell

Fitzwilliam Quartet Events*
Kushell Artists-in-Residence February 2 - 17, 2012
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.

Alan George, Lucy Russell, Colin Scobie, Heather Tuach

 

 

Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Sophomore Recital: Anissa Corser, soprano & Thomas Carle, tenor

 

Friday, February 17, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell Jazz Band Performance
Barry Long, director

 

Sunday, February 19, 2012
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

4:00 p.m. - Senior Recital: Emily Lattal, soprano

8:00 p.m. - String Chamber Music Recital

 

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Guest Lecture: Malcolm Bilson, Emeritus Professor of Music, Cornell University

 

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Guest Recital: Malcolm Bilson, piano

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 7:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Gallery Series: David Pope, woodwinds

 

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 12 noon
Classroom 117 Sigfried Weis Music Building

Music in Culture Alumni Colloquium*: Jessica Swanston '09

"Wutless" Music: Fastness and (Un)Interpretability in Kittitian and Nevisian Soca

 

Sunday, February 26, 2012 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Nicole Lake, soprano

 

*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University

 

 

January 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Faculty Recital: Barry Hannigan, piano


January 22, 2012 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Hannah Carpenter, mezzo-soprano


*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University

**Funded by the generosity of the Weis Family

December 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

12 noon -Student Recital

7:00 p.m. - The Bucknell Gamelan Ensemble Fall Performance


December 2, 4, & 6, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Rooke Chapel

The Annual Bucknell Candlelight Service of Lessons & Carols

This year, featuring Sir Christemas, This Little Babe, A Song to the Sleeping Babe and traditional Candlelight favorites like Still, Still, Still and Silent Night. Also a premiere performance of William Payn's On This Day Earth Shall Ring.

Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 1:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Piano Department Recital

Performances by students from the studios of Barry Hannigan and Sezi Seskir.

 

 

Monday, December 5, 2011 - 7:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Composition Recital


Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Special Holiday Jazz @ Bucknell Concert

With Joshua Davis, bass, Steve Rudolph, piano, Phil Haynes, drums, and special guest Hendrik Merkyn, harmonica.

 

*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University
**Funded by the generosity of the Weis Family

November 2011

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz @ Bucknell
Bob Dorough Trio

With Pat O'Leary, bass and Steve Berger, guitar

Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Bucknell Opera Company
Fall Performance

 

 

Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Recital

Friday, November 11, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The Bucknell University Symphonic Band Fall Concert
William Kenny, conductor

 

 

Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Junior Recital: Daniele Gold, soprano

Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Recital

 

Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The Bucknell Orchestra Fall Performance
Christopher Para, conductor

 

Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 2:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The Bucknell Concert Chorale Fall Concert
William Payn, conductor

 

Monday, November 28, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Advanced Conducting Recital: Hannah Carpenter '12

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series**: Ronnie Whyte, piano


*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University
**Funded by the generosity of the Weis Family

October 2011

Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Faculty Recital
Barry Hannigan, piano & Mary Hannigan, flute

Performing works by Bach, Jolivet, Rosenblum, Benshoof, and Bolling.


Monday, October 3, 2011
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

10:30 a.m.: Masterclass with pianist Karl Lutchmayer

7:30 p.m.: Guest Lecture/Recital with pianist Karl Lutchmayer

Karl Lutchmayer has found himself in great demand in 2011 as invitations to celebrate the Liszt Bicentenary have flooded in from 4 continents. Equally renowned as a pianist and lecturer, his innovative London lecture-recital series, Conversational Concerts, this year devoted to the music of Liszt, not only garnered critical acclaim, but was so oversubscribed that each event had to be repeated. He was also honoured to be invited by the Hungarian Cultural Centre to contribute to their own Liszt celebrations. Further performances took him to Mumbai, St. Petersburg, Oslo and New York, and he is currently preparing for engagements in Europe, India and Africa.

Karl is also a committed educator, lecturing at Trinity College of Music, London, where he is Professor of Performing Practice, and giving regular guest lectures at the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools in New York. He also retains piano professorships at Eltham College and the Ithaca College London Center and is in demand as a coach for young artists in their early careers. A prominent figure in the field of public music appreciation, he gives pre-concert talks at venues including the Wigmore Hall, writes a weekly classical music column for London Time Out, and has contributed articles to numerous magazines and books.

 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz @ Bucknell
The Ingrid Jensen Quartet


Ingrid Jensen, trumpet/composer/arranger
Helen Sung, piano
Matt Clohesy, bass
Jon Wikan, drums

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 12 noon
117 Sigfried Weis Music Building

Music in Culture: Bucknell Alumni Colloquium Series
William Andrew Burnson '07: "Music Notation as Music Composition"

Bring a brown bag lunch and discover the exciting research recent Bucknell music alumni are undertaking.

 

Jazz Impromptu with Ingrid Jensen
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall - 8:00 p.m.

 

Wednesday, October 18, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Guest Recital: Jason Laczkoski, saxophone
 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center Lobby

Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series**: Dominick Farinacci Quartet

Friday, October 28, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert

Featuring Chameleon by Herbie Hancock. Also, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Blue Rondo A La Turk, and more.

 

Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Junior Recital: Annie Schulenburg, soprano

*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University
**Funded by the generosity of the Weis Family

September 2011

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz @ Bucknell
Manuel Valera and the New Cuban Express

Manuel Valera, piano
Yosvany Terry, saxophones
Ernesto Simpson, drums
Mauricio Herrera, percussion


PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN TIME:
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 8:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Lois Svard, piano
A Celebration of 27 Years of Music & Friends

In a concert of solo works and duo-piano pieces, faculty emerita Dr. Lois Svard will perform with guest artists and friends. Svard will be joined in a Rachmaninoff work for two pianos by recent Bucknell graduate Amanda Child, a neuroscience major and piano student of Svard. Pianist Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music at Pomona College, will join Svard in a two-piano work by George Crumb, and internationally-acclaimed Finnish pianist Paavali Jumppanen will join Svard in a performance of movements from Shy and Mighty by the young American composer Timothy Andres. Svard will also perform solo works by George Tsontakis and her friends and colleages Kyle Gann and William Duckworth.

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12 noon
117 Sigfried Weis Music Building

Music in Culture: Bucknell Alumni Colloquium Series*
Abby Anderton '06: "In den Ruinen der alten Philharmonie": Classical Music, Propaganda, and the American Cultural Agenda in West Berlin (1945-1949)"

Bring along a brown bag lunch and discover the exciting research recent Bucknell music alumni are undertaking.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Campus Theatre

Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series**
Freddy Cole


Friday, September 23, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The Bucknell Orchestra
Christopher Para, conductor
William Kenny, horn soloist

Performing Haydn's Symphony No. 100 in G Major "Military," Saint-Saens' Morceau de Concert for Horn and Orchestra, and Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1.

 

 

 

*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University
**Funding made possible by the generosity of the Weis Family.

April 2011

Friday, April 1, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell Jazz Band Spring Concert

 


Saturday, April 2, 2011 - 1:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Amanda Child, piano

Saturday, April 2, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell University Orchestra Spring Concert

Sunday, April 3, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Lauren Godfrey, flute

Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The Bucknell Opera Company in Performance

 

 


 

Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 1:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Sophomore Recital: Brendan Bormes, piano & Nathan Deysher, piano

Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell University Symphonic Band Spring Concert

Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 2:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Concert Chorale Spring Concert

Sunday, April 24, 2011 - 1:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

BIIE (Bucknell Improvistion Intensive Ensemble) Performance*
with Herb Robertson

Monday, April 25, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Clarinet Studio Recital: the students of Elisabeth Stimpert

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

12 noon: Student Recital

7:00 p.m.: Jazz Improvisation Class Recital

Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Recital

Friday, April 29, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
The Grove (rain location: Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall)

Bucknell Gamelan Ensemble Performance

Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Rooke Chapel

Rooke Chapel Ringers Spring Concert

Sunday, May 1, 2011

4:00 p.m.: Piano Department Recital
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

7:30 p.m.: Rooke Chapel Choir Spring Concert
Rooke Chapel

Monday, May 2, 2011 - 7:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Composition Class Recital

*This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University

March 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Bucknell Improvisation Intensive Ensemble Master Class with Dave Liebman***

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 7:30 & 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Samuel Williams' Colloquium on Jazz & Culture: David Liebman* on the Art of the Duo

Faculty Concert: Phil Haynes, percussion, and Dave Liebman, saxophone***
Haynes and Liebman will also present an open rehearsal in the Rooke Recital Hall of the Sigfried Weis Music Building at noon.

Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 8 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Paavali Jumppanen, piano
Performing Professor of Music William Duckworth's Time Curve Preludes in honor of Professor Duckworth's retirement from Bucknell after 38 years of teaching and composing.

Sunday, March 6, 2011
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

1 p.m.: Student Recital: Abigail Dinin, piano

4 p.m.: Junior Recital: Emily Lattal, soprano

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 7:00 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Linntown Pops Concert with the Bucknell Symphonic Band

Saturday, March 26, 2011 -  9 a.m. - 12 noon
Larison Dining Hall

Dalcroze Eurhythmics & World Music Workshop with Professor Patricia Shehan Campbell of the University of Washington***

Dr. Campbell will facilitate a wide variety of musical encounters in her two-part workshop entitled:

From Dalcroze to Dance

Part I: Eurhythmic Engagements in Music
Part II: Groove Around the Globe

Through a multitude of participatory experiences, Dr. Campbell will demonstrate techniques for integrating Dalcroze pedagogy and World Music encounters into the music classroom. There are no admission costs for this workshop, but please register at www.bucknell.edu/x58335.xml by Wednesday, March 16th. A Pennsylvania Department of Education ACT 48 application will be available at the workshop for all participants; three hours will be awarded for this workshop.

Please contact Dr. Sarah Watts, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Education, with questions at 570-577-1243 or sarah.watts@bucknell.edu.

Dr. Patricia Shehan Campbell teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education, including music for children, world music pedagogy, sociology of music, and research methods.  She has delivered lectures and conducted clinics across the US and in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.  Campbell is published widely on issues of cross-cultural music learning, children's musical development, music methods for children, and the study of world music in K-12 schools and university courses.  She holds a Ph.D from Kent State University and a BFA from Ohio University, and is a certified teacher of Dalcroze Eurhythmics.

Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 1:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

BIIE (Bucknell Improvisation Intensive Ensemble) Performance

Wednesday, March 31, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series**: The Paquito D'Rivera Trio

*This event is part of a series of colloquia arranged by Professor Barry Long, the Samuel Williams chair
**Funding from the Weis family makes the Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series possible
***This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University
****Funding provided by the Association for the Arts

February 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz @ Bucknell: Tim Berne's Los Totopos

Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Nicholas Horner, baritone

Sunday, February 13, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Junior Recital: Nicole Lake, soprano

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Gallery Series: The LA Piano Duo (Liam Viney & Anna Grinberg, pianos)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Gallery Series: Paavali Jumppanen, piano

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Ronny Whyte and Daryl Sherman, piano and vocals
with Boots Maleson, bass

Saturday, February 26, 2011 - 1:00 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

The Bucknell Symphonic Band with Professor of Music Barry Hannigan and guest artist Paavali Jumppanen in a special family matinee performance of The Carnival of Animals.  Also featuring The Flight of the Bumblebees.

Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Brian Sternemann, tenor

* Bucknell University acknowledges with gratitude generous funding from the Weis family which makes possible the Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series.
** This event is sponsored by the Kushell Endowment of Bucknell University

January 2011

Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Guest Recital: Amanda Robie '03, mezzo-soprano, & Rachel Crane-Sitomer '03, soprano
with Ashlee Mack '03, piano

A concert featuring three Bucknell graduates of the class of 2003, performing three of Schumann's Spanisches Liederspiel, as well as excerpts from Jake Heggie's Songs to the Moon, Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, and Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.

Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 4:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital: Caitlin Edwards, soprano

Please note change in date:
Friday, January 28, 2011 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Faculty Recital: Barry Hannigan, piano

Featuring premiere performances of William Andrew Burnson's ('07) Bike Ride and Fixations, along with Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Corelli, Godowsky's The Gardens at Buitenzorg, and two Chopin Valses.

Sunday, January 30, 2011 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Guest Lecture-Recital: Kathleen Sasnett, soprano on The Verdi, Puccini, and Wagnerian Soprano

Dr. Kathleen Sasnett is Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera at Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College, where she directs Opera Workshop, Sunderman Opera Studio, and teaches Applied Voice. A former Miss Washington, and a top ten finalist in the Miss America Pageant, Kathleen has performed leading operatic, oratorio, and musical theater roles throughout America and in Europe.

Monday, January 31, 2011 - 7:00 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Williams' Colloquium on Jazz & Culture**
Lecture & Performance: Guthrie Ramsey, Ph.D., Kahn Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania

Guthrie P. Ramsey is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.  A widely published writer, he is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop, which was named Outstanding Book of the Year by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music in 2003.  He has also written In Walked Bop: Earl "Bud" Powell and the Modern Jazz Experiment (forthcoming) and Who Hears Here? Essays on Black Music, History, and Society (forthcoming).

A Chicago native, Ramsey earned his doctorate in Musicology at the University of Michigan.  He was a Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow at Dartmouth College, a DuBois Institute Fellow at Harvard University, and a recipient of the Lowens Award from the Society of American Music for best article on an American music topic.  Among his recent work is a commission (with Pres. Obama's inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander) for an anthem commemorating the 100th anniversary of the NAACP.  He co-curated the 2010 exhibition Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.  Ramsey was creative consultant and librettist for Ramsey Lewis' A Proclamation of Hope: A Symphonic Poem, which premiered in 2009 and was performed at the Kennedy Center in November 2010.

"Jazz as Social Contract"
The ideology and reality of race has shaped the dynamic reception history of all music labeled "African-American."  Beyond this quality of their social histories, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, soul, blues, and hip-hop share strong "familial" relationships in the sonic realm that scholars speak about as audible traces of a nonlinear historical African cultural legacy.  In addition to these commonalities, these genres have distinguished themselves with social, historical, geographical, and commercial commonalities.

Generic names like "jazz" guide listeners into proper responses that are dictated by a social contract established by the label.  They frame the communication of meaning, the contexts for interpretation, and provide a starting point for discerning changes or innovations.  To be sure, positioning a musical practice in this or that category carries important consequences: it connects the music and musicians to commercial institutions, genre-specific interpretations, and to "traditional" audience bases.  Thus, when music is assigned a genre designation, it speaks to both purely sonic issues and to larger social orders.

*Bucknell University acknowledges with gratitude generous funding from the Weis family which makes possible the Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series.

**made possible by a gift from Ellen Williams '19, the University Lectureship Committee, and the Griot Institute.

December 2010

Thursday, December 2, 2010
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

12 noon: Student Recital
4:00 p.m.: Conducting Class Recital
7:00 p.m.: Voice Class Recital

Saturday, December 4, 2010
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

1:00 p.m.: Piano Department Recital

4:00 p.m.: Senior Recital
Christin Cooper, piano

Sunday, December 5, 2010 - 1:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Senior Recital
Emma Soper, violin

Friday, Sunday, & Tuesday, December 3, 5, & 7, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Rooke Chapel

Candlelight Services

The tradition continues at Bucknell: three nights of Lessons and Carols with the Rooke Chapel Choir and Ringers, both conducted by Professor William A. Payn. Returning this year is Elizabeth Asmus on the harp, in addition to organ accompaniment by David Cover. Musical highlights this year include traditional carols such as O Come All Ye Faithful and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, plus Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day and Rejoice, O Virgin. Additionally, the Ringers will perform pieces such as Greensleeves, Las Campanas de Navidad, Ave Maria, and Festive Dance.

Monday, December 6, 2010 - 7:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Composition Class Recital

*Event sponsored by the Kushell Music Endowment of Bucknell University.

Back to Department Events

November 2010

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz @ Bucknell
Owen Howard's Drum Lore

With John O'Gallagher, alto saxophone, Adam Kolker, multi-reeds, Frank Carlberg, piano, Johannes Weidenmueller, bass and Owen Howard, drums

Friday, November 5, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Jazz Band Fall Concert: Brought to you by the Letter 'M'

Featuring works by Miles, Monk, and Mingus, plus modern composers such as Rick Hirsch, Fred Sturm, and Bucknell senior Nick Horner.

Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Bucknell Opera Company Performance

Friday, November 12, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Symphonic Band Inauguration Gala Concert

Featuring performances of Professor Jackson Hill's Bucknell Fantasy and Copland's Lincoln Portrait, with narration by Bucknell students and president John Bravman.

Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Junior Recital
Christina Wagner, soprano and Hannah Carpenter, mezzo-soprano

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

BIIE (Bucknell Improvisation Intensive Ensemble) Performance

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 12 noon
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Student Recital

Friday, November 19, 2010 - 7:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Gamelan Ensemble Performance

Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 1:00 p.m.
Natalie Davie Rooke Recital Hall

Guest Recital
Jay Umble & Bill Druck, guitars

Performing textural, avant-garde jazz, including Stolen Moments, All the Things You Are, Footprints, Aberration of an Epilogue, VT & Out, and There Will Neve Be Another You.

Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Bucknell Orchestra Fall Concert

Sunday, November 21, 2010 - 2:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Concert Chorale Fall Concert

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Clarinet Studio Recital
with the students of Elisabeth Stimpert

*Event sponsored by the Kushell Music Endowment of Bucknell University
**The Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series is made possible by funding from the Weis family.

October 2010

Friday, October 1, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Weis Center for the Performing Arts

Orchestra Concert

In a concert featuring Faure's Pelleas et Melisande, Bizet's L'Arlesienne, and selections from West Side Story, the Bucknell University Orchestra explores tragic love.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 8:30 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Jazz @ Bucknell
The Mimi Fox Trio

With Mimi Fox, guitar, Ray Drummond, bass and Billy Hart, drums

Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 4:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Sophomore Recital
Daniele Gold, soprano and Annie Schulenburg, soprano

Senior Jazz Recital
Nicholas Horner, vocals

Friday, October 22, 2010 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Guest Lecture/Demonstration: I Gusti Nyoman Darta, gamelan*

Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 4:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Faculty Recital
Barry Hannigan, piano and Mary Hannigan, flute

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 7:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Bucknell Goes Baroque

With performances of Pachelbel's Canon in D, Telemann's Concerto in G for four violins, and music from Purcell's The Fairy Queen, all led by Kushell artist Jill O'Brien, violin.*

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

The Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series**
Dick Hyman, piano and Ken Peplowski, clarinet

Sunday, October 31, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

Sophomore Recital: Mislav Forrester, trumpet & Kayla Rossi, clarinet

 

 


 

*Sponsored by the Kushell Music Endowment of Bucknell University
**The Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series is made possible by generous funding from the Weis family.

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September 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

The Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series**
Bill Charlap, piano & Sandy Stewart, vocals

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 8:30 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall (note change in location)

Jazz @ Bucknell
Mark Soskin Quartet

Featuring Mark Soskin on piano, Joel Frahm on saxophones, Dean Johnson on bass, and Matt Wilson on drums.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Natalie Davis Rooke Recital Hall

The Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series**
The John Pizzarelli Quartet


**The Janet Weis Cabaret Jazz Series is made possible by generous funding from the Weis family.

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