MARCH 2008 EVENTS

EVENT LOCATIONS
All Longy's event locations are accessible to physically challenged individuals

Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall: 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Wolfinsohn Recital Room: 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Recital Room N1: 33 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
First Church: 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

GENERAL LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC INFORMATION: (617) 876-0956 ext. 500

MARCH CONCERT EVENTS

Sunday, March 2, 2008
3:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Faculty Artist Recital
TWO PIANOS IN CONCERT: A CASCADE OF SPARKLING JEWELS
Ludmilla Lifson and Eda Shlyam, pianos
SCHUMANN: Andante and Variations in B-flat Major, Op. 46
MILHAUD: Scaramouche, Op.165b (1937)
ARENSKY: Silhouettes (Suite No. 2), Op. 23
GERSHWIN: Fantasy from Porgy and Bess (1935)
And other works by J.S. Bach, Granados, and Glinka.

Sunday, March 2, 2008
4:00 PM / Wolfinsohn Recital Room
Voice Department
VOICE COFFEE CONCERT

Monday, March 3, 2008
7:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
String Department
GENERATIONS CONCERT
Celebrating musical tradition linking the generations, string teachers perform with their students. The winning work of the Third Annual String Composition Competition jointly sponsored by the String and the Composition/Theory Departments will be performed.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward My. Pickman Concert Hall
Piano Department
CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE
Longy’s Piano Department Conservatory students are featured in this concert performing an exciting variety of music for solo piano.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
7:30 PM / Recital Room N-1
Piano Department
MASTER CLASS WITH CHRISTOPHER ELTON
Christopher Elton was born in Edinburgh and received most of his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he achieved the unusual distinction of gaining the Academy’s highest performing award – the Dip.RAM – on both piano and ‘cello. In recent years, he has given recitals in the UK, USA, Ireland, Spain, Australia, and Vietnam. Mr. Elton is currently Head of Keyboard at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he was elected a Fellow in 1983. In 2002, the title of Professor of the University of London was conferred on him.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Woodwind and Brass Department
LESLEY O’DONEL, flute WITH MIKA TANAKA, piano
Master of Music Recital
Student of Robert Willoughby

Sunday, March 9, 2008
3:00 PM / Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
LONGY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Anne Manson, guest conductor
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
KIM: Illuminations for Soprano, Strings, and Harp
MOZART: Serenata Notturna, K. 239
BARBER: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Featuring recent alumni Michelle Trainor (M.M. ’06), soprano; and current voice faculty member Karyl Ryczek, soprano.
Admission: $10 general/$5 students/seniors/alumni
Tickets: Tickets are available through the Harvard Box Office at 617-496-2222 or www.boxoffice.harvard.edu.

Monday, March 10, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Chamber Music Department
CONSERVATORY HONORS CONCERT
Outstanding ensembles will perform masterworks of the chamber music repertoire.
MOZART: Sonata in B-flat Major, KV. 454
KIRCHER: Piano Trio (1954)
BRAHMS: Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
7:00 PM / Wolfinsohn Recital Room
Piano Department
TUESDAY MUSICALE

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
7:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Piano Department
PREPARATORY HONORS CONCERT
Nominated by their teachers for exceptional achievement, Preparatory Piano students perform solo works in recital.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
8:00 PM / Wolfinsohn Recital Room
Continuing Studies Program
MUSICAL EVENING

Sunday, March 16, 2008
1:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Woodwind and Brass Department
DENNIS SHAFER, saxophone
Artist Diploma Recital
Student of Kenneth Radnofsky

Sunday, March 16, 2008
4:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Faculty Artist Recital
SHAYLOR LINDSAY, piano
with guest pianist Eric Mazonson and percussionists Jeremy Lang and Alan Yost.
BARTOK: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
MOZART: Sonata in A Minor, K. 310
BRAHMS: Waltzes, Op. 39

Sunday, March 16, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Faculty Artist Recital
THE MUSIC OF ROBERT SCHUMANN
Featuring Longy faculty artist Robert Merfeld, piano, and his guests Frank Kelley, tenor and Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello. This all Schumann program features the famed song-cycle Dichterliebe, Op. 48, Fantasiestücke, Adagio and Allegro in A-flat Major, Op. 70,  and Five Pieces in Folkstyle, Op. 102.

Monday, March 17. 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Continuing Studies Program
COHEN CONTINUING STUDIES RECITAL
Instrumentalists, singers, and chamber ensembles present repertory from all eras.
This recital series is made possible by a generous bequest from Jonathan and Louise Alden Cohen.

Monday, March 24, 2008
5:00 PM / Recital Room N-1
Early Music, String, and Woodwind and Brass Departments
MASTER CLASS WITH IL FONDAMENTO
Brussels based Il Fondamento perform across Europe, including all the major festivals, where they are celebrated as one of the leading specialists in historical performance practice of early music on period instruments. They are particularly praised for not only their interpretations of the more familiar Baroque pieces, but also for combining them with unpublished and unknown works that artistic director Paul Dombrecht has unearthed during his ceaseless researches. Through their performances and concerts, many fascinating works have been heard for the first time since the time of their composition.

Monday, March 24, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Composition and Modern American Music Departments
COLLABORATION CONCERT
Longy composers and Modern American Music performers explore experimental new compositions for improvisers.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
String Department
RACHEL ARNOLD, cello
Master of Music Recital
Student of Terry King

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
8:00 PM / Recital Room N-1
Faculty Artist Recital
VOICES OF THE MULTITUDE: A READING/PLAYING
Peter J. Evans of the Modern American Music and Composition and Theory Departments will read his paper on Hildegard von Bingen entitled "Vox Multitudinis of Ordo Virtutum: Inciptis, Modes, Structures, Extrapolations," a paper to be read at both the 43 International Congress on Medieval Studies and the 25th session of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies in May of 2008. 
Following the paper, Evans, invited guests Jeff Claassen (Dean College, faculty) and Michael Gardiner (NEC) and students from the MAM department will sonically explore further 'voices of the multitude' extrapolated from Hildegard's masterwork. 

Thursday, March 27, 2008   PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Chamber Music Department
PACIFICA QUARTET
with guest artist Wayman Chin. piano
BEETHOVEN: Quartet, Op. 18 No. 6
CARTER: Second Quartet
DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet, Op. 81
Admission: $25 general admission; $15 students/seniors/alumni; free advance tickets available to Longy students, faculty, and staff with ID through the reception desk.
Tickets:  Advance tickets may be purchased at Longy’s reception desk (Mon.-Sat. 10am-4pm; cash/check sales) or on-line at www.longy.edu/tickets.  Event-day tickets may be purchased at the box office, which will open at 7:15pm (cash sales).

Friday, March 28, 2008
3:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Chamber Music Department
MASTERCLASS with PACIFICA QUARTET
The Pacifica Quartet explore the art of interpretation and performance with chamber ensembles from the Conservatory.

Friday, March 28, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Dalcroze Department
LI-CHIEN HSIAO, violin
Masters of Music Recital
Student of Lisa Parker

Sunday, March 30, 2008
3:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Faculty Artist Recital
SHIZUE SANO, piano
CHOPIN: Fantasy, Op.49 
BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op.110
RAVEL: Miroirs (1904-5)

Sunday, March 30, 2008
7:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Dalcroze Department
DALCROZE CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE

Monday, March 31, 2008
8:00 PM / Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
String Department
ROB BRADSHAW, cello
Master of Music Recital
Student of Terry King

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