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Calendar of Events

This master list includes all events sponsored by the Department of Music over the next 90 days. It may be sorted by the type of event: concerts, Midday Music concerts, the musicology colloquium series, and the Composers’ Forum.

Saturday, August 22
   6:30 pm		 Sage Chapel Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club; Scott Tucker, conductor. Orientation concert.
Friday, September 11
   8:00 pm		 Barnes Auditorium Guest artists: Steve Gorn, bansuri (bamboo flute), and Samir Chatterjee, tabla (percussion), present "North Indian Classical Music and Beyond." Sponsored by the South Asia Program, with support from the Cornell Council for the Arts, Department of Music, and the Martin F. Hatch Fund.
Friday, September 18
   1:30 pm		 Lincoln 316 Guest composer Francesco Antonioni presents "After the Masters of Modernism," a lecture on lesser-known Italian composers, such as Luca Francesconi, Ivan Fedele, Azio Corghi, Carlo Boccadoro, Luigi Ceccarelli, and Giorgio Battistelli. [Begins at 1:25 PM; enter via 220 Lincoln Hall, the Music Library]
Friday, September 18
   8:00 pm		 Barnes Auditorium Blaise Bryski, piano. Features an all-Liszt program.
Sunday, September 20
   8:00 pm		 Bailey Hall Gabriela Montero, piano, presented by Cornell Concert Series. Venezuelan-born pianist Gabriela Montero's interpretive and improvisational gifts have won her a devoted following around the world, and in America she has been featured on NPR's Performance Today, CBS's 60 Minutes, and at the inauguration of President Obama. Along with masterworks of the classical repertoire, improvisation plays an important part in Ms. Montero's musical life - just as it once did for Bach and Mozart. "When improvising, I connect to my audience in a completely unique way - and they connect with me." -Gabriela Montero

TICKETS can be purchased (starting mid-August 2009) online at BaileyTickets.com or via Ticket Center Ithaca, 171 The Commmons, Center Ithaca, tel. (607)273-4497 or (800)248-8422
Friday, September 25
   1:30 pm		 Lincoln 316 Guest composer Francesco Antonioni presents "Ballata dell'abbandono e della fortuna," a lecture discussing his own music. [Begins at 1:25 PM; enter via 220 Lincoln Hall, the Music Library]
Friday, September 25
   8:00 pm		 Sage Chapel David Yearsley, organ, with guest violinist Martin Davids.
Saturday, September 26
   8:00 pm		 Barnes Auditorium Ensemble X; Steven Stucky, conductor. Includes music by Francesco Antonioni, Donald Crockett, and more.
Tuesday, September 29
   8:00 pm		 Barnes Auditorium Michael Clarkson, tenor, with pianist Graeme Bailey. "Songs of the Road" features selections from Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel, Schubert's Die Winterreise, and Donald Swann's The Road Goes Ever On.
Saturday, October 3
   8:00 pm		 Bailey Hall Cornell Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra; Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. The CCO presents Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, with 'new' animals written by graduate composers. The CSO performs Kristin Kuster's Beneath the Stone and Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.