Friday October 31 Noon at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison
The Noon Musicale presents pianist Mark Valenti. Music of Debussy, Bartok & Mendelssohn
(This concert will be recorded by WORT for future broadcast)
Friday October 31 7pm at the Lakeside Coffee House 402 W. Lakeside St., Madison
Madison Classical Guitar Society Showcase
Saturday November 1 7:30 pm at the First Congregational United Church of Christ 1609 University Avenue, Madison.
Con Vivo presents “63 Strings and 2008 Pipes,” chamber music concert with guest soloist Karen Beth Atz, harp
Cost: $18
Call: 608-233-9751
Web: www.convivomusicwithlife.org
con vivo! CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT FEATURES HARP AND ORGAN
con vivo!…music with life, opens its thirteenth season of chamber music with a concert entitled “63 Strings and 2008 Pipes” on Saturday, November 1, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1609 University Ave. across from Camp Randall.
Tickets can be purchased at the door for $18.00 for adults and $15.00 for seniors and students. Joining con vivo! for this concert is special guest musician Karen Beth Atz on harp. The program includes the Sonata in C Minor for violin and harp by Louis Spohr, Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden for clarinet and harp by Paul Reade, and Ganagobie for solo harp by Bernard Andres featuring Ms. Atz as soloist.
The performance will also feature the outstanding church organ with the Concerto in g-minor for organ and strings, opus 4, no. 1, HMV 298 by George Fredrick Handel. Audience members are invited to join con vivo! musicians after the concert for a free reception to discuss this chamber music literature and to hear about their Carnegie Hall debut this past December.
Artistic Director Robert Taylor, in remarking about the concert said, “con vivo! is excited to have Karen Beth Atz join us for this concert. We are looking forward to presenting chamber music that includes harp, the most angelic of all instruments, and organ, the ‘King of Instruments!’ It will be a night of new works and wonderful sounds for all.”
con vivo! is a professional chamber music ensemble comprised of Madison area musicians assembled from the ranks of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and various other performing groups familiar to Madison audiences.
Saturday November 1 7:30 pm at the First Unitarian Society 900 University Bay Drive, Madison
The Festival Choir of Madison presents portions of Tchaikovsky’s “All-Night Vigil,” plus works by Rachmaninoff & Ippolitov-Ivanov
Saturday November 1 7:30 pm at The Greenhill Center of the Arts, 930 West Main Street, Whitewater
The UW-Whitewater Chamber Orchestra
The Chamber Orchestra performs in the Light Recital Hall. Christopher Ramaekers conducts The Chamber Orchestra with a Baroque Ensemble, Leanne League, coach. The program includes Torelli’s Concerto for 2 violins, strings and continuo, OP. 8, No. 2; Telemann’s Concerto for 2 violas in G Major; Bach’s Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht. The concert is free and open to the public.
Saturday November 1 8 pm at Mills Concert Hall 455 North Park Street, Madison
Cellist Parry Karp and Pianist Eli Kalman present a free concert.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in C Minor for Piano and Violin, Op. 30 No. 2 (1802) transcribed for piano and cello by Parry Karp
Ettore Desderi: Sonata Eb Major for Cello and Piano (1922?)
Samuel Barber: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 22 (1945)
Sunday November 2 1pm at The Greenhill Center of the Arts 930 W. Main Street, Whitewater
UW-Whitewater University Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble
University Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Young Auditorium. Glenn Hayes conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the University Band in a program including pieces by Alfred Reed, Percy Grainger, Shelley Hanson, Martin Mailman, Paul Hindemith, John Barnes Chance, and Kenneth M. Snoeck. Tickets: general public: $5, over 65: $4, and under 18/UW-Whitewater students: $3.
Sunday November 2 2pm at First United Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison
The Madison Wind Ensemble presents its fall concert. Music of Shostakovich, Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Sousa.
Cost: Free (donations for food pantry encouraged)
Call: 608-213-2098
Web: www.deforest.lib.wi.us
Sunday November 2 2pm at Mills Hall, 455 North Park Street
The UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra presents “The Columbiad”, a free concert
A. P. Heinrich: The Columbiad, or Migration of American Wild Passenger Pigeons
Wiltold Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra.
Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture.
The Columbiad created a sensation at its premiere in Prague in 1858 and will be performed once again this fall at UW-Madison and Yale University.
Heinrich was inspired by witnessing vast flocks of passenger pigeons in 1831. Known in his day as “the log cabin composer” and “the Beethoven of America,” Anthony Philip Heinrich is the only important composer of the early nineteenth century to have experienced the North American frontier as he did. He saw Niagara Falls, he encountered Native Americans and slave musicians, and he witnessed the astonishing migration of giant flocks of passenger pigeons.
This event is part of a two-day symposium commemorating the centenary of the demise of the passenger pigeon. To learn about the national effort, please see Project Passenger Pigeon.
Sunday November 2 4pm at Farley’s House of Pianos 6522 Seybold Road, Madison
The Salon Piano Series presents pianists Stanislava Varshavski & Diana Shapiro
Program:
Schubert “Variations on a French Song”, D. 624, one piano four hands
Ravel “La Valse”, one piano four hands
Milhaud “Scaramouche”, suite for two pianos
Saint-Saëns “Variation on a Theme by Beethoven” for two pianos
Poulenc Sonata for Two Pianos
Sunday November 2 7:30 pm at Mills Hall 455 North Park Street, Madison
Voice Faculty Showcase Concert (Ticketed)
The UW voice faculty present an evening of chamber music featuring the solo voice. Featuring a premiere, White Clouds, Yellow Leaves, written by composer and saxophone professor Les Thimmig.
Mimmi Fulmer and Elizabeth Hagedorn, sopranos; Paul Rowe, baritone.
With Karen Atz, harp; Thomas Kasdorf, piano; Marc Vallon, bassoon; Parry Karp, cello; and many students and faculty from the UW-Madison School of Music.
Program
leaves-cloudsDon Quichotte à Dulcinée (1934) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Chanson romanesque
Chanson épique
Chanson á boire
Paul Rowe, baritone, with Thomas Kasdorf, piano.
La lettre Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Absence Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
L’invitation au voyage Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Elizabeth Hagedorn, soprano; Marc Vallon, bassoon,with Thomas Kasdorf, piano, and Karen Atz, harp.
Barcarolle Charles Gounod (1818-893)
Elizabeth Hagedorn, soprano; Paul Rowe, baritone, with Thomas Kasdorf, piano.
INTERMISSION
Long Pond Revisited (2002) Lori Laitman (b. 1955)
Poetry by C.G.R. Shepard
I Looked for Reasons
The Pond Seems Smaller
Late in the Day
Days Turn
Long Pond Revisited
Paul Rowe, baritone; Parry Karp, cello.
White Clouds, Yellow Leaves (2013) Les Thimmig
Texts derived from 8th- and 9th-century Chinese poetry (b. 1943)
Mimmi Fulmer: mezzo-soprano
Mi-Li Chang: flute, piccolo, alto flute
Kostas Tiliakos,: English horn
Marc Vallon: bassoon
Sean Kleve: percussion
Karen Atz: harp
Paran Amirinizari: violin
Rachel Hauser: viola
Andrew Briggs: violoncello
Les Thimmig: conductor
Tuesday November 4 7:30pm at Mills Hall 455 North Park Street, Madison
The UW Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Wednesday November 5, Noon at Luther Memorial Church 1021 University, Madison
Free organ recital by Bruce Bengston.
Wednesday November 5 7:30 pm at Mills Hall 455 North Park Street, Madison
The UW Wind Ensemble Chamber Winds conducted by Scott Teeple
The Wind Ensemble is the premier wind/percussion ensemble in the School of Music. Repertoire varies from classical wind compositions to contemporary works. The Wind Ensemble actively commissions new works from world-renowned composers, often performing with internationally acclaimed soloists and guest conductors. This program features an ear-catching smorgasbord of chamber works for mixed winds.
Program:
Old Wine in New Bottles — Gordon Jacob
Jacob Klingbeil, graduate conductor
La Creation Du Monde — Darius Milhaud
Funeral Music for Queen Mary – Steven Stucky
Good Soldier Schweik Suite — Robert Kurka
This calendar is compiled by Rich Samuels, host of “Anything Goes” which airs 5-8am Thursdays on WORT