Concerts
The Department of Music sponsors more than a hundred concerts on campus each year, given by faculty members, students, departmental ensembles, and distinguished visiting artists. All are open to the public and most are free, unless ticketing information is given. The listings below also include the Cornell Concert Series, which brings artists of international stature to campus; admission is charged for all of these events. The Cornell Concert Commission hosts large-scale pop and rock acts, and many additional student-organized musical events take place on campus; for information, check with the Willard Straight Hall Ticket Office at 255-3430 (Mon-Fri).
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Monday, November 30 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | POSTPONED to Feb 6,2010: Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, piano. Features works by Mendelssohn and music for piano four-hands. |
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Tuesday, December 1 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Student Chamber Music Recital. |
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Wednesday, December 2 12:30 pm |
Sage Chapel | Midday Music for Organ: Annette Richards will present a program focusing on music by the extraordinary young French 20th-century composer Jehan Alain (who was killed tragically at the age of 29 in the first days of World War II), and including one work, the Piece Heroique of Alain's 19th-century forerunner, Cesar Franck. (Aeolian Skinner organ). |
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Wednesday, December 2 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Studio 342: voice students of Judith Kellock. |
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Thursday, December 3 12:30 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Midday Music at Lincoln: Les petits violons; Dorian Komanoff Bandy, director. Features music of Antonio Vivaldi, including an opera overture, a concerto for four violins, and a viola d'amore concerto. |
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Thursday, December 3 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Studio recital: piano students of Xak Bjerken. |
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Friday, December 4 8:00 pm |
Sage Chapel | Annette Richards, University organist, presents Messiaen's La Nativite du Seigneur for Advent and the Christmas season, performed on the Aeolian-Skinner organ. |
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Saturday, December 5 3:00 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Sound Art Forum: Kevin Ernste, director. Features music of Cornell student composers in conjunction with the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center. |
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Saturday, December 5 3:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Studio recital: violin students of Joseph Lin. |
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Saturday, December 5 8:00 pm |
Bailey Hall | Cornell University Jazz Ensemble I and Super Sax Ensemble; Paul Merrill, director, with guest guitarist/composer-arranger Steve Brown. |
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Sunday, December 6 3:00 pm |
Bailey Hall | Cornell University Wind Ensemble; Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor, and the Cornell Symphony Orchestra; Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. In preparation for its return to Costa Rica, the CUWE presents Bernstein's West Side Story, Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, Grainger's Gumsucker's March, and Stephen Gryc's Las Campanas. The CSO performs songs from Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch, orchestrated by Steven Stucky with soloists Judith Kellock and Emilie Simoneau, and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances. |
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Sunday, December 6 7:30 pm |
Other | Cornell Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Music Ensemble (CMEMME); Gail Holst-Warhaft and Harold Hagopian, directors, with guest artist Richard Hagopian, oud. [Carriage House Cafe's Hay Loft] |
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Sunday, December 6 7:30 pm |
Sage Chapel | Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers: a candlelit Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, with traditional readings by members of the Cornell community. Features John Rowehl, conductor, and organists Annette Richards and Tim Pyper, with audience participation in the familiar Christmas hymns. |
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Monday, December 7 7:30 pm |
Sage Chapel | Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers: a candlelit Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, with traditional readings by members of the Cornell community. Features John Rowehl, conductor, and organists Annette Richards and Tim Pyper, with audience participation in the familiar Christmas hymns. [repeat of previous evening, but with different readers] |
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Tuesday, December 8 8:00 pm |
Lincoln B20 | Cornell Gamelan Ensemble; Christopher J. Miller, director. Features music for Javanese gamelan. |
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Tuesday, December 8 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Student Chamber Music Recital. |
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Saturday, December 12 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | D.M.A. recital: Stuart Paul Duncan, composer. |
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Sunday, December 13 8:00 pm |
Barnes Auditorium | Finals for the sixth annual Cornell Concerto Competition. |
