Friday January 7, 12:15 pm at the First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison,
Pianist Kathryn Ananda-Owens.
Music of Mozart, Debussy & new music by Justin Merritt
Friday February 7, 8 pm at the Madison Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin Street, Madison.
The Clocks in Motion Percussion Ensemble
Night Light – Clocks In Motion http://clocksinmotionpercussion.com/ Night Light is our monthly after-hours series at Central Library that will rotate between music, theater, dance, storytelling, performance art, and other live happenings. Night Light will usually be on the first Friday of the month, but we will occasionally shift the night or throw in an extra event, so keep your eyes peeled. We’re also partnering with our friends at Forequarter to offer interesting and delicious food and drink at our Night Light events.
For more information, see http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/central
Friday January 7,8 pm at Overture Center-Capitol Theater, 201 State Street, Madison (repeated Sunday 2/9 at 2:30 pm)
The Madison Opera presents The Daughter of the Regiment by Gaetano Donizett.
and Jean-François Bayard
Sung in French with projected English translations
Pre-opera talks
Join General Director Kathryn Smith in the Wisconsin Studio one hour prior to all Madison Opera Overture Hall performances, for an entertaining and informative talk about the opera. Insightful for newcomers and longtime opera-goers alike, this talk will give you a behind-the-scenes look at the music, the drama, the artists, and the production, all right before the curtain goes up.
• 1 hour prior to each Overture Hall performance
• 30-minute talk
• Wisconsin Studio, 3rd floor of the Overture Center for the Arts
Post-Opera Q&A
You’ve seen the opera and loved it. But are you perhaps wondering about…? Join General Director Kathryn Smith immediately after the Overture Hall productions to ask questions about what you have just seen.
• Immediately following Overture Hall performances
• Wisconsin Studio, 3rd floor of the Overture Center for the Arts
Madison Opera presents Gaetano Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment on Friday, February 7 and Sunday, February 9 in the Capitol Theater at the Overture Center for the Arts. A Madison Opera premiere, The Daughter of the Regiment is a sweet romantic comedy, with vocal pyrotechnics and beautiful melodies
interlaced with charm and humor.
The plot is simple: Marie, an orphan who was raised by the 21st Regiment, is in love with Tonio, who joins the army so he can marry her. When Marie’s new-found aunt takes her away from her beloved regiment, she despairs. Fortunately, all ends happily-ever-after.
“I adore this opera,” says Kathryn Smith, Madison Opera’s General Director. “Sometimes all we want from a night at the opera is entertainment, and Daughter delivers. I fell in love with the show’s music years ago, and it’s
a pure delight to bring this work to Madison Opera for the first time in the company’s 53-year history. It’s a perfect show for everyone, from opera novices to opera omnivores, from 8 year-olds to 88 year-olds.”
The opera also marks the return of the company’s winter production to the Capitol Theater, where it last performed five years ago. Recent seasons have seen winter productions of chamber works such as Galileo Galilei and The Threepenny Opera staged in the intimate Playhouse. The Capitol Theater is an ideal venue for expanding the company’s winter repertoire to include productions that benefit from both a cozy atmosphere and a larger stage.
“At last we are bringing Donizetti’s comic masterpiece to our audience, with its scintillating score and adorably zany plot,” says John DeMain, Madison Opera’s Artistic Director. “I’ve so loved my encounters with this opera in the past and so look forward to Madison’s first outing with such a marvelous cast, the Madison Opera chorus, and the Madison Symphony Orchestra. This is the pluperfect way to escape from any winter doldrums.”
Appleton native Caitlin Cisler, who charmed audiences as the page Oscar in A Masked Ball and at Opera in the Park last season, returns to Madison Opera as Marie. Javier Abreu, described by Opera News as “a natural Rossini singer,” makes his debut as the high-C-prone Tonio. Nathan Stark, who was a chilling Commendatore in Don Giovanni last season, displays his comic side as Sulpice, one of Marie’s many “fathers,” and local favorite Allisanne Apple returns as The Marquise of Berkenfield. They are joined by Douglas Swenson as Hortensius, Christopher Apfelbach as a Corporal, Katrina Brunner as The Duchess of Krakenthorp, and Robert Goderich as a Peasant.
David Lefkowich (Acis and Galatea, 2013) directs this traditional staging, set in the Tyrol around 1820. While the opera itself will be sung in French – the language in which Donizetti, an Italian composer, wrote it – with English translations projected above the stage, the dialogue will be delivered in English, so the audience can follow the action easily.
In addition to the performances, audiences have a variety of opportunities to learn more about The Daughter of the Regiment. Madison Opera offers a second iteration of the fall’s successful Opera Novice, to be held on January 17. Free and open to the public, this short, fun evening will talk about operatic comedies, with a focus
on The Daughter of the Regiment, including a performance by Madison Opera Studio Artists Gillian Hollis and Scott Brunscheen. The Opera Up Close series is back in MMoCA this season, and will provide a fascinating preview on February 2, with discussions about Donizetti and the history of The Daughter of the Regiment, including an artist roundtable. Pre-Opera talks will be hosted by Kathryn Smith one hour prior to each performance.
Saturday February 8, 2014 7 pm at Mills Hall, 455 North Park Street, Madison
Symphony Showcase: The UW-Madison Symphony conducted by James Smith and graduate assistant Kyle Knox
The FREE concert will include works performed by the five winners of our annual Concerto Competition as well as the Russian Easter Overture by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In late December, a sixth winner was announced: Daria Tennikova, undergraduate composer.
The concert will be conducted by Prof. James Smith and graduate assistant Kyle Knox.
Our winners include:
Madlen Breckbill, violin. Undergraduate, student of David Perry.
Mi-Li Chang, flute. Doctoral candidate, student of Stephanie Jutt.
Kai-Ju Ho , clarinet. Doctoral candidate, student of Linda Bartley.
SeungWha Baek, piano. Doctoral candidate, student of Martha Fischer.
Sung Ho Yang, piano. Doctoral candidate, student of Christopher Taylor.
Daria Tennikova, undergraduate composer, student of Stephen Dembski and Laura Schwendinger, premiering her new work, “Poema for Saxophone and Orchestra.” Soloist: Erika Anderson.
RECEPTION FOLLOWING AT TRIPP COMMONS, MEMORIAL UNION. Please join us to celebrate! Cash bar, hors d’ oeuvres, and spirited conversation!
Tickets: $10.00. Limited availability; purchase today! See link below to buy.
Read more here (copy and paste into your browser): http://uwmadisonschoolofmusic.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/symphony-showcase2013-14/
Saturday February 8, 7:30 pm at the Verona Area High School Performing Arts Center, 300 RichardStreet, Verona.
The Saint Olaf Band.
The St. Olaf Band, conducted by Dr. Timothy Mahr and dubbed “one of America’s preeminent bands” by The New Yorker, will be performing at Verona Area High School as part of their Winter Tour. They will be featuring works by Maslanka, Mahr, Persichetti, and Welcher.
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
February 8, 2014
Verona Area High School Performing Arts Center, 300 Richard St., Verona, WI 53593
$10 for adults/seniors, free for students
Contact: tickets can be purchased at 1-800-363-5487 or at stolaftickets.com
Tuesday February 11, 2014 7:30 pm at Mills Hall, 455 North Park Street, Madison.
The UW-Madison Faculty Concert Series presents John Stevens, tuba.
Presenting Mozart’s Horn Quintet, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, and Brahms’s Horn Trio. All works adapted for tuba.
Guest artists – David Perry, Sally Chisholm, Parry Karp, and Martha Fischer
John Stevens has enjoyed a distinguished career as a teacher, orchestral, chamber music, solo and jazz performer and recording artist, composer/arranger, conductor and administrator. He has performed with every major orchestra in New York and was a member of the New York Tuba Quartet and many other chamber groups, principal tubist in the Aspen Festival Orchestra, toured and recorded with a wide variety of groups including Chuck Mangione, the American Brass Quintet and the San Francisco Ballet, and was the tuba soloist in the original Broadway production of BARNUM. He has released two solo recordings; an LP of his own compositions titled POWER (Mark Records, 1985) and a CD titled REVERIE (Summit Records, 2006). UW-Madison faculty in 1985 and, in addition to his other duties, was the Director of the School of Music from 1991 to 1996 and 2011 to 2013. As a composer and arranger with over 50 original compositions and almost as many arrangements to his credit, Stevens is internationally renowned for his works for brass, particularly for solo tuba, euphonium and trombone, tuba/euphonium ensemble, brass quintet and other brass chamber combinations. He is the winner of numerous ASCAP awards and has received many composition grants and commissions. In 1997 he was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to compose a tuba concerto. This work, entitled JOURNEY, was premiered by the CSO, with tubist Gene Pokorny as soloist. Recent compositions include the CONCERTO FOR EUPHONIUM AND ORCHESTRA, SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS, a composition for wind band commissioned by a consortium of 14 American universities, and MONUMENT for Solo Tuba and Strings.
Wednesday February 12, Noon at Luther Memorial church, 1021 University Ave., Madison.
Organ concert featuring Bruce Bengston.
Wednesday February 12, 2014 7:30 pm at Mills Hall, 455 North Park Street, Madison.
The UW-Madison Faculty Concert Series presents Daniel Grabois, horn.
Performing works by UW composers John Stevens, Laura Schwendinger (premiere), and Les Thimmig.
Daniel Grabois is Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. The former Chair of the Department of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, he is the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a sextet of brass and percussion soon to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. With Meridian, he has performed over fifty world premieres, released ten CD?s, received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards, and toured worldwide, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself. The author/composer of two etude books for horn, Grabois has appeared as a frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has performed in New York and on tour with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and many other ensembles. He also appears on over thirty CD recordings, and has recorded a concerto written for him by composer David Rakowski. Grabois taught horn for fourteen years at The Hartt School, and has taught courses on the business of music at both Hartt and the Manhattan Sc