[NEohioPAL] Three Exciting Oberlin Artist Recital Series Concerts in November
Marci Janas
Marci.Janas at oberlin.edu
Wed Oct 24 11:48:57 PDT 2007
Media Contact Only:
Marci Janas, Director of Conservatory Media Relations
440-775-8328 (office); 440-667-2724 (cell); marci.janas at oberlin.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
A CORNUCOPIA OF OBERLIN CONCERTS: THREE EXCITING ARTIST RECITAL
SERIES EVENTS IN NOVEMBER
Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007, at 8 p.m.
Imani Winds on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007, at 8 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, at 8 p.m.
OBERLIN, OHIO (October 24, 2007)—For almost 130 years, Oberlin
College has been hosting its renowned Artist Recital Series, one of
the oldest continuing concert series in America. The month of
November is a veritable horn of plenty for the series, with three
exciting concerts planned for Oberlin’s historic Finney Chapel.
On Thursday, November 1, 2007, at 8 p.m., Finney’s
rafters will ring with the sound of New Orleans when the Preservation
Hall Jazz Band brings the music of the French Quarter to Oberlin.
Deriving its name from the venerable music venue, this 10-member
combo perpetuates the art form of New Orleans jazz with a joyful,
timeless spirit. The Houston Chronicle writes: “You can’t keep down
the energy of this ageless jazz combo.”
Bassist Ben Jaffe, a 1993 graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, directs the band as well as the hall, which was founded by his
parents in 1964. Many of the band’s charter members performed with
the pioneers who invented jazz in the early 20th century, and they
have passed on the lessons of their music to the younger generation
now following in their footsteps. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
includes bandleader John Brunious on trumpet, Daryl Adams on alto
saxophone, Ralph Johnson on clarinet, Lucien Barbarin and Frank
Demond on trombone, Rickie Monie on piano, Carl LeBlanc on banjo,
Joseph Lastie Jr. on drums, and saxophonist Clint Maegden on vocals.
The program will be announced from the stage.
General admission tickets for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are $7
for all students; $10 for seniors and those with an Oberlin College
I.D. (faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and area educators); and $15
for the public. This concert is nearly sold out. Please call
Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service at 440-775-8169 or 800-371-0178 for
more information. The CTS box office is located in the lobby of Hall
Auditorium, 67 N. Main St. (Route 58), between the Oberlin Inn and
the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Box office hours are noon to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday and selected Saturdays.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is sponsored by Oberlin College’s
Student Assemblies Committee, the Artist Recital Series, and Friends
of the Artist Recital Series, and supported in part by the Riverside
Company and the DeWitt Stern Group.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, at 8 p.m., the Imani Winds will present
a program of works by its flutist, Valerie Coleman, and by Arturo
Marquez, Karel Husa, Julio Medaglia, György Ligeti, and Astor
Piazzolla. This African American and Latino wind quintet, whose name
comes from the Swahili word for faith, has performed throughout the
U.S. and Canada, carving out a distinct presence in the classical
music world. The ensemble brings the percussion and folk influences
of their African, Latin, and American repertoire to the traditional
wind quartet sound—a fusion genre known as “urban classical music.”
“Gregarious, subtle, and intensely alert to details and phrasing,
classically or otherwise,” writes Gramophone magazine, “the Imani
Winds capture the spirit of each work through loving and brilliant
playing.”
Besides Coleman, the Imani Winds features Toyin Spellman-Diaz (OC
’94) on oboe; Mariam Adam on clarinet; Jeff Scott on French horn; and
Monica Ellis (OC ’95) on bassoon.
General admission tickets for the Imani Winds are $6 for students; $8
for seniors and those with an Oberlin College I.D. (faculty, staff,
alumni, parents, and area educators); and $15 for the public. Please
call Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service at 440-775-8169 or 800-371-0178
for more information.
The Imani Winds is sponsored by Oberlin College’s Student Assemblies
Committee, the Artist Recital Series, and Friends of the Artist
Recital Series, and supported in part by the Riverside Company and
the DeWitt Stern Group.
On Tuesday, November 20, 2007, at 8 p.m., Assistant Conductor of the
Cleveland Orchestra Jayce Ogren leads the world-renowned ensemble in
Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1.
Long considered one of America’s great orchestras, the Cleveland
Orchestra—led for the past five seasons by Music Director Franz
Welser-Möst (OC hon. ’06) stands today among the world’s most revered
symphonic ensembles. Musical America writes: “Cleveland has
overwhelming reason to take unbounded pride in an orchestra that can
easily hold its own in any musical capital in the world today—
including Vienna.” Conductor, composer, and educator Jayce Ogren has
established himself as one of today’s rising artists. He has
conducted such ensembles as the New World Symphony, Finland’s Vaasa
City Orchestra, and the Swedish orchestras of Gävle and Helsingborg.
This is the 206th appearance of the Cleveland Orchestra on the Artist
Recital Series.
Reserved seat tickets are $10 for students; $22 for seniors and those
with an Oberlin College I.D. (faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and
area educators); and $26 for the public. Tickets purchased at the
door will be an additional $3. Please call Oberlin’s Central Ticket
Service at 440-775-8169 or 800-371-0178 for more information.
The Cleveland Orchestra is sponsored by the Artist Recital Series and
Friends of the Artist Recital Series, and is supported in part by the
Danenberg Residency Fund, the Riverside Company, and the DeWitt Stern
Group.
All concert artists, programs, and dates are subject to change.
Finney Chapel, called “acoustically wonderful” by critic Charles
Michener of the New York Observer, is wheelchair accessible and is
located on the southwest corner of Lorain St. (Route 511) and North
Professor St., across from Tappan Square.
Detailed information about performers, dates, and times for the
2007-08 Artist Recital Series is available online at www.oberlin.edu/
arseries.
Media sponsorship for Oberlin’s Artist Recital Series is provided by
104.9-FM WCLV, Cleveland’s classical music radio station, and 90.3-FM
WCPN, ideastream.
About Oberlin College’s Artist Recital Series
Since the inception of the Artist Recital Series in 1878, more than
1,000 of the most acclaimed and accomplished musicians, conductors,
orchestras, chamber ensembles, and composers have graced the stage of
Finney Chapel at Oberlin College. Stars of such international stature
as Dave Brubeck, Alicia de Larrocha, Juan Diego Flórez, Glenn Gould,
Denyce Graves, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Yo-Yo Ma, Sergei
Rachmaninoff, Isaac Stern, George Szell, and Eugene Ysaÿe have
performed under the auspices of the series. Since 1919, the Cleveland
Orchestra has appeared on the series every season for a total of 205
performances under the baton of such illustrious—and varied—
conductors as Nikolai Sokoloff (38 times), Artur Rodzinski (25
times), George Szell (60 times), Robert Shaw, Pierre Boulez, Lorin
Maazel, Simon Rattle, Yoel Levi, Christoph von Dohnányi, Vladimir
Ashkenazy, Jahja Ling, Robert Spano, Franz Welser-Möst, Mitskuko
Uchida, and Steven Smith. This growing roster is more than an
impressive “Who’s Who.” It is an illumination of the finest of
serious music, spanning the late 19th century to the present.
About the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated amid
the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the
oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. The
Conservatory is renowned internationally as a professional music
school of the highest caliber and has been pronounced a “national
treasure” by the Washington Post. Oberlin’s alumni have gone on to
achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of the serious music
world. Many of them have attained stature as solo performers,
composers, and conductors; among them, Jennifer Koh, Steven Isserlis,
Denyce Graves, Franco Farina, Christopher Robertson, Lisa Saffer,
George Walker, Christopher Rouse, David Zinman, and Robert Spano. All
of the members of the contemporary sextet eighth blackbird, most of
the members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and many of
the members of Apollo’s Fire are Oberlin alumni. In chamber music,
the Miró, Pacifica, Juillard, and Fry Street quartets, among other
small ensembles, include Oberlin-trained musicians, who also can be
found in major orchestras and opera companies throughout the world.
For more information about Oberlin, please visit www.oberlin.edu/con.
CALENDAR LISTINGS
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
Thursday, November 1, 2007, 8 p.m.
The program will be announced from the stage.
GENERAL ADMISSION
$7 All Students
$10 Oberlin College ID
$10 Educators
$10 Seniors
$15 Public
IMANI WINDS
Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 8 p.m.
PROGRAM:
V. Coleman: Portraits
of Josephine Baker
Arturo Marquez: Danza de Mediodia
Karel Husa: Five Poems
Julio Medaglia: Suite Popular
Brasileira
György Ligeti: Ten Pieces for Wind
Quintet
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Jeff Scott: Libertango
GENERAL ADMISSION
$6 All Students
$8 Oberlin College ID
$8 Educators
$8 Seniors
$15 Public
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Franz Welser-Möst, music director
Jayce Ogren, conductor
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 8 p.m.
PROGRAM:
Mozart: Symphony No. 34
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
RESERVED SEATING
$10 All Students
$22 Oberlin College ID
$22 Educators
$22 Seniors
$26 Public
Tickets purchased at the door the night of the performance are an
additional $3
Central Ticket Service
440-775-8169 or 800-371-0178
Open noon to 5 p.m.
Monday–Friday and selected Saturdays
FINNEY CHAPEL
90 North Professor Street
Oberlin, Ohio
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Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440.775.8328
(F) 440.775.5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu
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