Department of Music Events for Fall 1999


Date: September 15, 1999
Contact: Carolyn Campbell ( ccampbel@arts.ucla.edu )
Phone: (310) 825-6540

The Department of Music offers a variety of events for the public's enjoyment throughout the year. Events include student and faculty recitals and performances of high artistic accomplishment in various genres, as well as performances by visiting artists of national and international renown. The public may contact the department at (310) 825-4761 for further information. Programs are subject to change. On-campus parking is $5. Visit our Web site at www.arts.ucla.edu.

Sep. 27

A Tribute to Paul Des Marais

7:30 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

Free

This concert of Paul Des Marais' complete vocal works is presented in recognition of his more than fifty years as a composer. Des Marais taught music composition at UCLA for over 30 years. During his tenure, he frequently collaborated with the theater, dance and film departments. The program includes six song cycles for voice and piano and a showing of two short films created in collaboration with Dan McLaughlin, professor of animation in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Musical performers are Paul Cummings, baritone; Myoung Gyu Lee and Eileen O'Hern, sopranos; Daniel Plaster, tenor; and Paul Des Marais, Bryan Pezzone and Mark Ruttle, pianists.

Oct. 13

Faculty Recital

Tom Beghin, fortepiano

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

$7 general, $3 students and seniors

This recital features an evening of music by Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870). In 1823, Moscheles celebrated his return to Vienna from Paris and London with a concert in the Kärnthnertor- Theater. For the occasion, he borrowed Beethoven's Broadwood piano and used it alternately with an instrument by Conrad Graf, wishing to "bring out the good qualities of both."

Beghin will perform music by Moscheles on both an original 1816 Broadwood and a copy of an 1824 Graf. This unique recital will not only present two distinct schools of piano building (English and Viennese) but will also bring to life the music of the master pianist-composer who was once held in high esteem by such younger colleagues as Chopin, Liszt and Schumann. The program includes Grande Sonate op.41 and Alexander-Variations op.32, as well as Sonate Mélancolique op.49, Hommage Caractéristique à Madame Malibran op.94, La Gaieté op.84 and Impromptu op.89.

Beghin earned his doctorate from Cornell University in 18th-century performance practice with a dissertation on musical rhetoric, working mostly with Malcolm Bilson and James Webster. He also studied at the Music Academy of Basel (Switzerland) with Rudolf Buchbinder and Jean Goverts and at the Lemmens Institute of Louvain (Belgium) with Alan Weiss. His recent recordings include keyboard sonatas of Haydn and Beethoven.

Oct. 22

Faculty Recital: "Mostly Liszt"

Walter Ponce, piano

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

$7 general, $3 students and seniors

As the title suggests, the evening's program consists mostly of music by Franz Liszt: Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca, Sonata in B Minor, Liebes-Tod (from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) and Tarantella. The second half of the program will open with two short pieces: Sonata No.1 by Paul Reiser (b. 1956) and Sonata by Alban Berg (1885-1935).

Oct. 27

Faculty Recital

Marion Kuszyk, oboe

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

$7 general, $3 students and seniors

Kuszyk will be joined by pianist Joanne Pierce Martin and flutist Catherine Ransom. The program includes J.S. Bach's Concerto for Oboe d'Amore in A major, BWV 1055, Gordon Jacobs' Seven Bagatelles for Solo Oboe, Henri Dutilleux's Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Robert Bloom's Aria for Oboe and Piano and Madeleine Dring's Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano. A member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Kuszyk has been a member of the Kansas City Symphony and was guest artist with the Virginia Symphony and the Charleston Symphony, among others.

Nov. 10

UCLA Wind Ensemble

Thomas Lee, conductor

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

Free

Strongly committed to performing new works by American composers, the UCLA Wind Ensemble will premiere a composition by UCLA music professor emerita Elaine Barkin. The ensemble's outstanding horn section will be featured in Schumann's Concertstück. In addition, the winner of the fifth annual essay contest from John Adams Middle School (to be announced) will conduct Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."

Nov. 16

UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra

Jon Robertson, conductor

Thomas Harmon, university organist, soloist

8 p.m., Royce Hall

$14 general, $9 students and seniors

For tickets, call (310) 825-2101

This evening's presentation is the first in the Royce Hall Organ Series on the Hall's newly restored 1930 Skinner Organ, which has been enlarged with the addition of a new state-of-the-art five-manual console and a 24-rank bombarde division, bringing the organ to a total of 104 ranks and over 6,600 pipes. The program features two spectacular 20th-century works for the organ and orchestra: Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante (1932) and UCLA faculty composer Mark Carlson's Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (1997).

Harmon, UCLA's longest-tenured university organist, served as chair of the Department of Music from 1983-86 and from 1988-92. He instructs studio organ, music history and performance practice. He studied organ with Anton Heiler, Herbert Nanney, and Howard Kelsey. Active as a performer, he is organist for the First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica and has won critical acclaim for his recitals throughout the United States and Europe.

Maestro Robertson has enjoyed a distinguished career both as pianist and conductor. In addition to being chair of the UCLA Department of Music, he is conductor and music director of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Nov. 19

Faculty Recital

Vitaly Margulis, piano

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

$7 general, $3 students and seniors

This is an all-Chopin program. Born in the Ukraine, Margulis enjoys an international reputation as a concert pianist and scholar. A renowned teacher, he has been on the faculties of the Leningrad Conservatory and the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany. A leading exponent of the "Russian School," he has held master classes throughout the world. His students have won more than 85 prizes at international competitions, including 28 grand prizes. This past summer he made his debut at the Hollywood Bowl.

Dec. 3

UCLA Chorale, University Chorus, Chamber Singers and Angeles Chorale

Donald Neuen, conductor

8 p.m., Royce Hall

$10 general, $5 students and seniors

For tickets, call (310) 825-2101

The combined UCLA Chorale and University Chorus will perform Vivaldi's "Gloria" and John Rutter's "Gloria." The second half of the program will feature the Angeles Chorale and the UCLA Chamber Singers in a variety of Christmas carols and anthems. Don't miss this annual holiday concert, a campus tradition.

Dec. 6

Woodwind Chamber Ensembles

Gary Gray, director

8 p.m., Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall

Free

These quarterly concerts feature small woodwind ensembles performing works ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Prokofiev and Persichetti. Director Gray is principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

Dec. 8

UCLA Jazz Ensembles

Garnett Brown, John Clayton, Gordon Henderson, directors

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

$7 general, $3 students and seniors

Hear big band standards as well as exciting new compositions and arrangements performed by UCLA's award-winning student jazz ensembles.

Dec. 9

UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra

8 p.m., Schoenberg Hall

Free

The program will feature graduate conductors Stephen Tucker and Elizabeth Wright. The featured work on the program will be Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."

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