Past Event
Friday, 24 April 2009, 8 p.m.
The Lewis & Clark College Cappella Nova Choir, Women’s Chorus, and Orchestra will present a major performance including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece, the Requiem; the haunting Music for Women’s Chorus, Harp, and Two Horns by Johannes Brahms; and Gustav Mahler’s stirring Adagietto. A major collaboration between music majors and non-majors, the concert will include approximately 140 people.
The Requiem will be performed with professional vocal soloists Anna Haagenson, soprano; Angela Niederloh, mezzo-soprano; Carl Halvorsen, tenor; and Winston Jones, bass-baritone.
WHERE: Evans Music Building Auditorium
COST: $5 Students (advance student tickets free at the bookstore); $8 senior citizens, faculty, staff, and alumni; $10 general admission
CONTACT: Denise Gerhardt, 503-768-7461
Past Event
Friday, 6 March 2009, 8 p.m.
Having celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2006, the Alexander String Quartet has performed in the major music capitals of four continents, securing its standing among the world’s premier ensembles.
Widely admired for its interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich, the quartet has also established itself as an important advocate of new music through over 25 commissions and numerous premiere performances.
The Alexander String Quartet concludes a three-day residency at Lewis & Clark College with an evening recital in Evans Auditorium. Their program includes: Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 “Emperor,” Ravel: String Quartet, Schumann: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1
Tickets are available at the College Bookstore and at the door: $15 general; $10 seniors and students from other institutions; Complimentary to Lewis & Clark community when picked up in advance at the College Bookstore; $5 Lewis & Clark community at the door.
Festival seating. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Contact the music department at 503-768-746, if you have any questions.
Past Event
Friday, 21 November 2008
Friends of Rain, Lewis & Clark College’s Faculty Contemporary Music Ensemble, kicks off the 2008-2009 season with a concert of enchanting works written for smaller chamber groups. The performance takes place Friday, Nov. 21 at 8:00 p.m. in Evans Auditorium. The event is free, with a suggested donation of $15 at the door.
The program features Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s lyrical, probing work, Seven Inventions and a Postlude, performed by Mitch Iimori and Dorien de León; György Kurtág’s dramatic and evocative Hommage á R.S., which pays homage to Robert Schumann, performed by Elizabeth Harcombe, Dunja Jennings, and Miriam English-Ward; Lowell Liebermann’s jazz-inflected Sonata for Flute and Piano, performed by Nancy Teskey and Carol Biel; Vincent Persichetti’s haunting and compelling Parable for Solo Horn, performed by William Stalnaker; the premiere of Lewis & Clark’s percussion faculty Brett Paschal’s Springwater Road for solo marimba; and Arvo Pärt’s lovely atmospheric work, Spiegel im Spiegel, performed by Elisa Boynton and Stephanie Thompson.
Past Event
Sunday, 26 October 2008, 7 p.m.
Amir ElSaffar and his sextet meld styles and seamlessly cross-pollinate the languages of ancient and modern, East and West. ElSaffar’s compositions are some of the first in the history of jazz to make use of Arabic modality and its non-western tunings.
The concert is co-sponsored by the Lewis & Clark College Department of Music, Portland State University Middle East Studies Center, and the Arab-American Cultural Center of Oregon.
Tickets, available at the door, are $10 for students and senior citizens, $15 for general admission. A limited number of free tickets are available to the Lewis & Clark community in the music department office.
The concert is in Evans Auditorium, at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 26.
Past Event
Friday, 19 September 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy an evening of music by Finnish and Brazilian composers, performed by the Vaasa City Orchestra from Finland.
This fall, the orchestra is touring throughout the Pacific Northwest. This is the only appearance the orchestra will make in Portland.
The concert, which will take place in Evans Auditorium, is free for Lewis & Clark students; there is a $15 suggested donation for faculty and staff. General admission tickets are $15, and non-Lewis & Clark students will be charged $9 for admission.
Learn more about the orchestra online.
Past Event
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 8 p.m.
Join Camerata Vocalis, a 30-member mixed chorus from Germany’s University of Tübingen, under the direction of Tobias Hiller, and Lewis & Clark College’s Cappella Nova, under the direction of Dr. Gilbert Seeley, for a concert featuring a program of mostly German composers including Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schütz and Schein.
Past Event
Friday, 8 February 2008, 8 p.m.
The Alexander String Quartet concludes a three-day residency at Lewis & Clark with an evening recital in Evans Auditorium. They will perform Mozart’s Divertimento in F major, K. 138; Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden”.
