University of Oregon music wrap-up Nov. 15 – 21

Editor’s Note: For more information about these events or to obtain high-resolution images of Toby Koenigsberg, Idit Shner, or the Oregon Percussion Ensemble, contact Scott Barkhurst, 541-346-1163, scottb@uoregon.edu.

Thursday, Nov. 15 -- 8 p.m.
Student chamber ensembles will give a "Chamber Music on Campus" concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall, Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission is free. The program features a piano quartet by Robert Schumann, a saxophone quartet by Jean Absil, a string quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich, a Bach piece for brass quintet and a humorous scherzo for bassoon quartet by Sergei Prokofiev.

Friday, Nov. 16 -- 8 p.m.
Jazz pianist Toby Koenigsberg will give a Faculty Artist Series recital at 8 p.m. in Room 178, Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $10 general admission, $8 for students and senior citizens. Koenigsberg will be joined by Tommy Sciple on bass and Jason Palmer on drums, in a program of jazz standards, classics, contemporary jazz and improvistions. Selections include music by Thelonius Monk, Cole Porter, Elliott Smith, Andre Canniere, Gordon Jenkins and others.

Koenigsberg is assistant professor of jazz piano and associate director of jazz studies at the University of Oregon. He has performed throughout the United States and around the world with such jazz musicians and ensemble leaders as Marian McPartland, Rich Perry, Ben Monder and Bill Holman. He tours with the Toby Koenigsberg Trio, performing at the various jazz festivals.

Saturday, Nov. 17 -- 3 p.m.
The Oregon Percussion Ensemble, directed by Charles Dowd, presents "Octagon," a concert of contemporary avant-garde music, at 3 p.m. in Beall Hall, Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission, $5 for students and senior citizens. Dowd is a professor of percussion music at the university. The concert will feature "Octagon for Eight Percussionists" by Elliott Schwartz, a piece commissioned by and written for Dowd and the Oregon Percussion Ensemble. "Octagon" presents two multiple percussion quartets mirroring each other in a battle across the stage, utilizing scores of instruments in spatial, modern notation. Also on the program is "Octet for Keyboard Percussion" by Kenneth M. Snoeck, "Quintet for Mallet Percussion" by Serge de Gastyne, and the PRAXIS Marimba Quartet will perform "Marimba Quartet" by Daniel Levitan. The PRAXIS Marimba Quartet (Aaron Jester, Bryan Schuster, Alexander Singer and Paul Owen) is dedicated to bringing new and unusual works for marimba quartet to Eugene audiences.

Saturday, Nov. 17 -- 8 p.m.
The University Opera Workshop will present "An Evening of Arias and Song" at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall, Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission is free. Voice students under the direction of Douglas Webster will perform music from the world of opera and musical theater.

Sunday, Nov. 18 -- 3 p.m.
The Oregon Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band -- the university’s two top concert bands -- will share an afternoon concert at 3 p.m. in Beall Hall, Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission, $5 for students and senior citizens. The Oregon Symphonic Band, directed by Timothy A. Paul, will perform "Tempered Steel" by Charles Rochester Young, "Be Thou My Vision" by David Gillingham, "Incantantion and Dance" by John Barnes Chance, and "March" by Paul Hindemith. The Oregon Wind Ensemble, directed by Robert Ponto, will perform "Cakewalk" from Robert Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American Dances, "Ballad" by Morton Gould, "From the Delta" by William Brant Still and "Variations on a Shaker Melody" by Aaron Copland.

Monday, Nov. 19 -- 11:54 a.m. -- 12:08 p.m.
SoundBytes, a short weekly series of new music will be presented at Collier House, 1170 E. 13th Ave. Admission is free. The programs, coordinated by professor Brian McWhorter, feature new works, experimental pieces and works in progress in a bite-size format. The Nov. 19 program will feature the Swigartian Arts Ensemble.

Monday, Nov. 19 -- 8 p.m.
Members of the university jazz faculty will present an evening of original music based on Israeli nursery rhymes and Jewish folk tunes at 8 p.m. in Room 178, Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $10 general admission, $8 for students and senior citizens. Idit Shner, Toby Koenigsberg, Tyler Abbott on bass and Jason Palmer on drums will perform music derived from Israeli nursery-rhymes and traditional Jewish tunes, re-cast and reworked for a jazz quartet.

Tuesday, Nov. 20 -- 8 p.m.
The Oregon Composers Forum will present an evening of new music by composition students at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall, Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission is free. Selections will include two works for solo piano, a horn sextet, a piece for mixed chamber ensemble and a quartet for violin, piano, marimba and percussion.

Additional University of Oregon event listings are available at http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/calendar/. For more information on the School of Music and Dance, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the university music school weekdays, 541-346-5678, or visit music.uoregon.edu.

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