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CONTACT:
Judy Moore at 847-491-4819 or jkm229@northwestern.edu
FOR RELEASE: June 6, 2008
Northwestern Summer Band, Orchestra,
Jazz and Choral Events
EVANSTON, Ill. --- The Northwestern University School of Music
and its performance venues will be far from quiet this summer.
July concerts will feature band and orchestral classics, patriotic
and jazz works and choral masterpieces.
All of the following concerts are open to the public and will
take place at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive,
on the University’s Evanston campus. Tickets to the orchestral,
choral and band performances are $7 for the general public; $5
for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $4
for students, as noted below.
Admission to the July 24 Northwestern Summer Jazz Ensemble and
National High School Music Institute (NHSMI) Jazz Combos concert
is free.
For more information, contact the Pick-Staiger Concert Office
at (847) 491-5441 or visit the Pick-Staiger Web site at www.pickstaiger.org.
To order tickets by phone, call the Pick-Staiger Box Office at
(847) 467-4000.
Northwestern’s Summer Band will present an “American
Celebration!” program at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 2. School
of Music faculty member Ryan T. Nelson will direct a concert
of patriotic American pieces.
Robert G. Hasty will conduct the Summer Orchestra at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 13, in a concert that will include Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo
and Juliet,” Donizetti’s “Regnava nel silenzio … Quando
rapito” from the opera “Lucia di Lammermoor” and
Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 (“Romantic”).
Hannah Dixon will be the soprano soloist.
Daniel J. Farris will conduct the Summer Band at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
July 16. The program includes “Fanfare for a Festive Day” by
Roger Cichy, “Suite of Old American Dances” by Robert
Russell Bennett and Mark Spede’s arrangement of David del
Tredici’s “Acrostic Song.” Other works on the
program are “Puzta” by Jan Van der Roost and “The
Chimes of Liberty” by Edwin Franko Goldman.
Daniel J. Farris will conduct the Northshore Concert Band at
7 p.m. Wednesday, July 23. The symphonic band performs
throughout the Chicago metropolitan area and, during the course
of its 50-year history, has become internationally known and
respected for its musical excellence, leadership in community
music and service to music education. The evening’s program
features a selection of band classics and march favorites.
Joel Spencer will conduct Northwestern’s Summer Jazz Ensemble
and NHSMI jazz combos at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, in a program
featuring music by Count Basie, Thad Jones and Bill Holman, with
a guest appearance by jazz pianist Joan Hickey. The NHSMI is
one of seven divisions of Northwestern’s National High
School Institute. The highly selective music division admits
approximately 180 musicians who study, participate in master
classes and seminars, take field trips to premier Chicago music
venues and perform in large and small ensembles.
The Northwestern University Summer Chorus will perform at 7:30
p.m. Sunday, July 27. The concert includes Morten Lauridsen’s “Lux
Aeterna” and P.D.Q. Bach’s “The Seasonings,” edited
by Professor Peter Schickele.
Robert G. Hasty returns to the Pick-Staiger stage at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 29, to direct Northwestern’s Summer Orchestra
in a program featuring W.A. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
in A Major and Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 in E Minor.
Kristin King will be the featured clarinet soloist.
Mallory Thompson will conduct the Summer Band at 7 p.m. Wednesday,
July 30, featuring euphonium soloist Katheryn Aucremann. The program
includes “Flourish for Wind Band” by Ralph Vaughan
Williams; First Suite in E-flat by Gustav Holst; Frank Ticheli’s
arrangement of Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria”; “Courtly
Airs and Dances” by Ron Nelson; “Seis Manuel” by
Shelley Hanson; “Rhapsody for Euphonium” by Jerry Brubaker; “The
Melody Shop” by Karl L. King; “On the Mall” by
Edwin Franko Goldman; and “Galop” by Dmitri Shostakovich,
arranged by Donald Hunsberger.
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