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Vol. XX No. 4 December 2004 |
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 FACULTY Jazz faculty member David Berger and the Sultans of Swing have released a new CD, titled Marlowe, this fall. Among the musicians featured on this album are alums Dan Block (BM '79, MM '80, clarinet) and Ryan Keberle (AD '03, jazz studies).Evening Division faculty member Julie Jordan (MM '83, piano) received a standing ovation for her performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto and "Tempest" Sonata with the Niskayuna (N.Y.) High School Symphony for its 50th-Anniversary Concert in June. Jordan recently played Brahms's Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Piano and Mozart's Piano Quartet in G Minor in a concert of alumni at Dominican University of California in October. Also that month, she performed with Karen Marx (MM '87, violin) in a concert for Livingston Music Group in New Jersey and performed piano solo works by Chopin and Debussy in the Battell Chapel of Yale University in New Haven, Conn.Double bass faculty Eugene Levinson performed the bass obbligato part in the New York Philharmonic premiere of Mozart's concert aria, Per questa bella mano, K. 612, with bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff and conducted by Riccardo Muti in January 2004. Last month, Carl Fischer published Levinson's edition of this piece. The concert was broadcast on PBS's Live From Lincoln Center. In August, Levinson performed the Schulhoff Trio for Flute, Viola, and Double Bass at the Aspen Music Festival with Nadine Asin and Lawrence Dutton. Also in the summer, Strad magazine reviewed his book The School of Agility: A Technical Method of the Scale System for Double Bass. He gave master classes in Seoul and Tokyo while touring with the New York Philharmonic in October. Graduate studies faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, MM '88, organ; MM '88, choral conducting) led the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in a concert of works by Pärt, Britten, Brahms, and Poulenc in November.Evening Division faculty member Emily White (MM '85, piano) was piano soloist in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the Antara Ensemble in New York. Last season she performed with the same group as soloist in Mendelssohn's Double Concerto for piano, violin, and strings. Her recital at the Leeds Makor Festival in England was praised by the British publication Musical Opinion.Jazz faculty member Ben Wolfe's new CD, My Kinda Beautiful, was released by Planet Arts Recordings this fall. In October and November, Wolfe performed with Paula West, Eric Reed, and Rodney Green at the Algonquin Oak Room in New York. The Ben Wolfe Quartet, featuring Jeff "Tain" Watts, Rob Scheps, and Joe Magnarelli, is to perform at Sweet Rhythm in New York City on December 9. His sextet and septet will give the fourth annual winter concert on December 30 at the Old Church in Portland, Ore.STUDENTSFirst-year dance students Nigel Campbell, Chanel DaSilva, and Christopher Vo were featured in the PBS documentary on Presidential Scholars in the Arts titled American Talent, shown in New York City on Channel 13 in September.Melodramandadaries, a work for string quartet by doctoral candidate Justine Fang Chen, will be one of the pieces performed in November at the Cornelia Street Cafe by the Composers Collaborative.Violin master's degree student Maxine Kuo won the grand prize in the Kingsville International Competition in Texas.
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