Thursday October 23 7 pm at St. James Catholic Church, 128 St. James Ct. , Madison
The American Boy Choir
Celebrated ensemble presents an enchanting program of classics, mixed with contemporary works and selections from the upcoming feature film Boychoir, starring Dustin Hoffman and featuring American Boychoir School students
The American Boychoir, the world renowned vocal ensemble of the Princeton, NJ-based American Boychoir School, has been heralded as one of the nation’s premiere musical ensembles. Its mission is to sustain and move forward with a “distinctively American voice” the one-thousand-year-old boychoir school tradition. The American Boychoir is committed to being the finest choir of its kind in the nation and among the finest in the world.
The American Boychoir kicks off its 2014-2015 season with a Midwest tour commencing October 17 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with stops in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and concluding in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on November 1. Highlights of the program, entitled “Starlight,” include classics by Mendelssohn, Stroope, Leite, and Schafer intermixed with hummable audience favorites including This Little Light of Mine (Berg) and Over the Rainbow (Hayes). Selections from the upcoming film Boychoir will also be performed.
Friday October 24 12:15 pm at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison
The Noon Musicale presents Rachel Eve Holmes, soprano; Christopher Apfelbach, baritone & Michael Keller, piano – music of Floyd, Hahn, Beach, Strauss, Britten, Faure, Bowles and Mozart
Friday October 24 7 pm at Edgewoood College-St. Joseph Chapel 1100 Edgewood College Drive, Madison
Edgewood College Chamber Singers, Women’s Choir, Men’s Choir
Friday October 24 7:30 pm at Overture Center-Overture Hall 201 State Street, Madison
The Madison Symphony Orchestra Concert Organ Series presents the Choir of Westminster Abbey.
Friday October 24 7:30 pm at Music Hall 925 Bascom Mall, Madison
The UW Madison Opera presents Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring (repeated at the same location Sunday 10/26 and Tuesday 10/28 at 7:30pm)
David Ronis, director; Kyle Knox, conductor.
Tickets $22 General Admission, $18 Seniors, $10 Students
For his comic chamber opera Albert Herring, Benjamin Britten created an English adaptation of Maupassant’s short story “Le rosier de Madame Husson,” setting it in Suffolk. The lighthearted tale centers on the hapless young greengrocer Albert Herring – timid with girls, hassled by his mother – as the town in which he lives celebrates their annual May Day Festival. Britten’s score provides a satirical backdrop as humorous events unfold.
Friday October 24 7:30 pm at Overture Center Overture Hall
The Madison Symphony Orchestra Concert Organ series presents the Choir of Westminster Abbey
The 10-year anniversary Overture Concert Organ season begins with a majestic performance by The Choir of Westminster Abbey of London, Friday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Overture Hall.
For nearly 1,000 years, inspiring choral music has filled the vast cathedral of London’s Westminster Abbey, the site of every British coronation since 1066. Now, this renowned 40-voice choir comes to Madison to sing with the Overture Concert Organ in a program of music from the Renaissance to the 11th Century, featuring the works of Orlando Gibbons, Handel, Parry, and Walton.
Praised by the Sydney Morning Herald as “…One of the great choral powerhouses of our time,” The Choir of Westminster Abbey has performed for numerous notable events including, Evening Prayer in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 and the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, which was seen by a worldwide television audience of over two billion people. In June 2012, the Choir made an historic visit to Rome, when it sang, at the Pope’s invitation, alongside the Sistine Chapel Choir.
When not touring the world with destinations such as Sydney, Hong Kong, Washington DC, and Moscow, The Choir of Westminster Abbey works on a celebrated series of recordings for Hyperion. Their critically acclaimed recording Mary and Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey received the Gramophone Critics’ Choice Award and has been hailed as “a showcase for English choral singing at its most charismatic”.
General admission for the concert is $20 and tickets can be purchased at www.madisonsymphony.org/westminster, the Overture Box Office or (608) 258-4141. Student rush tickets are $10 day of show with a valid student ID (see www.madisonsymphony.org/studentrush).
This concert is sponsored by Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and Alfred P. and Ann M. Moore.
To see the Overture Concert Organ series of concerts for 2014-15 or to subscribe at a 25% savings, visit:
www.madisonsymphony.org/organseason14-15
or call (608) 257-3734.
Friday October 24 7:30 pm at Mills Hall, 455 North Park Street, Madison
The Pro Arte Quartet presents a free concert
Program:
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 71 No. 2 (1793) Joseph Haydn
Adagio-Allegro
Adagio
Menuet: Allegro
Finale: Allegretto
String Quartet No. 4 (1936) Alexander Zemlinsky
Präluium: Poco Adagio
Burleske: Vivace. Sehr lebhaft
Adagietto: Adagio
Intermezzo: Allegretto
Thema mit Variationen: Sehr Langsam (Poco adagio)
Finale-Doppelfuge: Allegro molto energico
INTERMISSION
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 (1893) “American” Antonin Dvořák
Allegro ma non troppo
Lento
Molto vivace
Vivace ma non troppo
Friday October 24 9 pm at the Sett in Union South
Sinister Resonance with Mark Hetzler and friends
Mark Hetzler- trombone and electronics
Vincent Fuh- piano
Nick Moran- bass
Todd Hammes- drums/percussion
Sunday October 26 1 pm at M<ills Hall 455 North Park Street, Madison
Clocks in Motion Percussion Ensemble
Contemporary chamber ensemble Clocks in Motion blends the classical concert hall with the rock n’ roll venue in a bold performance Sun, Oct 26, at 1:00 pm in Mills Hall. The program will pair one of the first pieces written for percussion ensemble with music by iconoclast Frank Zappa.
Zappa listed Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking work, Ionisation, as one of his fundamental inspirations in becoming a composer. Clocks will juxtapose this influential piece with Zappa’s Black Page, a drum solo that was later expanded to a full-band tune. Black Page’s uniquely virtuosic sound blends rock, contemporary, and experimental avant-garde music.
Guitarist Anthony Lanman joins the program as a guest performer on the world premiere of his 8-string electric guitar concerto, Automaton. Joseph Diedrich’s lush quartet for mallet percussion, piano, and cello will also receive its world premiere. Rounding out the program is John Cage’s Second Construction, a grooving classic in the percussion literature.
Program:
Ionisation
Although it is only 5 minutes long, Edgard Varèse’s seminal percussion piece laid the groundwork for 90+ years of composition for the genre (and beyond, as displayed by Frank Zappa). Varèse explores the coloristic possibilities of percussion with unique instruments including drums, woodblocks, sirens, cymbals, chimes, maracas, slapsticks, and more.
Black Page
Originally constructed as a drum solo in a style unique to Zappa, Black Page is known for its impressive rhythmic complexity and polyrhythms. This meticulous, thrilling piece is in two parts –#1, a full-ensemble percussion unison featuring a “statistical density”, and #2, the “Easy Teenage New York Version” which grooves through the same material with a full band.
Automaton
“When Clocks in Motion asked me to write a piece for them, immediately their name set off a series of images in my head. I saw a lonely watchmaker – an unappreciated genius – who had a vision in his mind of a great automaton. I saw him slaving away in his workshop, creating the massive creature, and then, finally, releasing it (with the best of intentions) upon the world. Unfortunately, the automaton didn’t function as planned…
“This all broke down into a concerto for electric guitar and percussion, and was organized into three movements: I. Watchmaker’s Daydream – II. Workshop/Steam – III. …In Motion.”
Saturation
Composed in 2013, Saturation combines the distinct timbral subtleties of mallet percussion, strings, and piano. Using Stephen Dembski’s constellation protocol, the piece embarks on an evolutionary journey, culminating in the discovery of tonality. Starting with distant, sparse reverberations, Saturation quickly becomes a wild musical adventure.
Second Construction
The 1940 work is scored for four players, and features piano prepared with cardboard, screws, and a metal cylinder carefully placed inside the instrument. The instrumentation is fascinating – water gong, temple bowls, almglocken, maracas, and tam-tam are heard.
New music, new instruments, and new sounds define Clocks in Motion’s fresh and innovative approach to contemporary classical performance.
Hailed as “nothing short of remarkable” (ClevelandClassical.com), Clocks in Motion is a group that performs new music, builds its own instruments, and breaks down the boundaries of the traditional concert program. With a fearless and uncompromising ear to programming challenging and adventurous contemporary percussion ensemble repertoire, Clocks in Motion consistently performs groundbreaking concerts involving performance art, theater, and computer technology. Featuring world premieres alongside rarely performed classic works, this ensemble strives to create a new canon of percussion repertoire.
Clocks in Motion works passionately to educate young audiences through masterclasses, residencies, presentations, and school assemblies. The ensemble’s unique skill sets and specialties contain an impressive mix of rock, jazz, contemporary classical, orchestral, marching, and world styles. Clocks in Motion has served as resident performers and educators at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Casper College, the University of Michigan, Baldwin-Wallace University, VIBES Fine and Performing Arts, Traverse City West High School, Traverse City East Middle School, Rhapsody Arts Center, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Formed in 2011, Clocks in Motion began as an extension of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Graduate Percussion Group, and now serves as the affiliate ensemble of the UW-Madison percussion studio.
Clocks in Motion is:
Dave Alcorn
Jennifer Hedstrom
Sean Kleve
Michael Koszewski
James McKenzie
Monday October 27 7:30 pm at Morphy Hall, 455 North Park Street, Madison
The UW-Madison Guest Artists Series presents oboist Alison Robuck with pianist Peter Miysmoto
Concert Program
Oboe Sonata (1944) York Bowen (1884-1961)
I. Allegretto grazioso
II. Andantino espressivo
III. Allegro giocoso
Mandala (2002) Dana Wilson (b. 1946)
I. Seeking
II. Coming Full Circle
INTERMISSION
Fantasie in b minor George Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
I. Largo, vivace, Largo, vivace
II. Allegro
Duo Concertante (1983) Antal Doráti (1906-1988)
I. Lento, rubato
II. Molto vivace
Alison Robuck teaches oboe at Bradley University, performs with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra and the Heartland Festival Orchestra, and was an invited performer at the International Double Reed Society convention in New York City in August of 2014. She spent two summers as oboe faculty for Ameropa, a chamber music festival in Prague, where she performed solo performances and chamber performances in many locations around the city including in the Prague Castle, the Brevnov Monastery, and an orchestral performance in the Rudolfinum. Her previous orchestral engagements include positions with Sinfonia da Camera, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, and the Baroque Artists of Champaign. She has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony, the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. She has performed recitals and taught master classes at the University of Illinois, University of Kansas, the University of Missouri, Oklahoma State University, Ball State University and Grand Valley State University, and has performed oboe concertos by Mozart, J. S. Bach, Marcello, Vivaldi, Handel, and Barber.
Pianist Peter Miyamoto has already enjoyed a brilliant international career, performing to great acclaim in recital and as soloist in Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, China, and Japan, and in major US cities such as Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. In 1990, Miyamoto was named the first Gilmore Young Artist. He won numerous other competitions, including the American Pianist Association National Fellowship Competition, the D’Angelo Competition, the San Francisco Symphony Competition and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Competition. A dedicated chamber musician, he has performed with such instrumentalists as Charles Castleman, Victor Danchenko, Lara St. John, Anthony McGill, David Shifrin and Allan Vogel as well as members of the Blair, Borromeo, Euclid and Pacifica String Quartets.
Mr. Miyamoto holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University School of Music, Michigan State University, and the Royal Academy of Music in London. His teachers included Maria Curcio-Diamand, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Marek Jablonski, Aube Tzerko, and Ralph Votapek, and Felix Galimir, Szymon Goldberg and Lorand Fenyves for chamber music.
Currently Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Missouri, Peter Miyamoto formerly taught at Michigan State University, and the California Institute of the Arts. Since 2003 he has served as head of the piano faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival (nysmf.org). Miyamoto has given master classes at major institutions throughout the United States as well as internationally in Canada, China, Greece, Japan and Serbia.
Tuesday October 28,7:30 pm at UW-Madiison School of Music
The UW Madison Guest Artist Series presents Payton MacDonald, percussion with Todd Hammes
Payton MacDonald (b. 1974, Idaho Falls, Idaho) is a composer/improviser/percussionist/singer/educator. He has created a unique body of work that draws upon his extensive experience with East Indian tabla drumming and Dhrupad singing, Jazz, European classical music, and the American experimental tradition. MacDonald studied music at the University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music. His composition teachers include Sydney Hodkinson, Robert Morris, Dave Rivello, Bright Sheng, and Augusta Read Thomas. MacDonald has toured the world with Alarm Will Sound and performed many improvised concerts with artists such as Elliott Sharp, Aakash Mittal, Tim Feeney, and others. His percussion teachers include John Beck and Michael Udow. Further studies include tabla with Bob Becker and Pandit Sharda Sahai, and Dhrupad vocal with Ramakant Gundecha. The New York Times described him as an “energetic soloist” and The Los Angeles Times described him as an “. . . inventive, stylistically omnivorous composer and gifted performer . . .” MacDonald is an Associate Professor of Music at William Paterson University.
Wednesday October 29 Noon at Luther Memorial Church, 1021 University, Madison
Free Organ Concert featuring Bruce Bengston