February 11th, 2012

• Music Scholarship Auditions

  All Day Prospective music students audition for scholarships. Evans is in use all day.

February 26th, 2012

• “Into the Wild” - Vocal Recital

  2:00pm - 3:00pm Katherine FitzGibbon, soprano and Assistant Professor of Music, will
  give a recital of art song and duets with guests Hannah Penn,
  mezzo-soprano, and Michael Barnes, pianist. The repertoire uses nature
  as a metaphor for love, loss, and lasciviousness, including art songs
  by John Duke, Richard Hundley, Reynaldo Hahn, Richard Strauss, Jake
  Heggie, and duets by Giacomo Rossini, Johannes Brahms, and Felix
  Mendelssohn. Admission free.

March 6th, 2012

• Gamelan Concert (with Northwest New Music)

  8:00pm This concert will present gamelan music and various ways in which Western composers have responded to it. Western composers have been inspired by gamelans for over a century, drawn to the otherness of its sounds, instruments, and musical concepts, and perhaps to the allure of the exotic. Debussy heard a Javanese gamelan perform at the Paris world exhibition and found in its sound intriguing scales and sonorities that he either applied directly to works such as Pagodes, or that permeated aspects of his style in general. Time for marimba is Japanese composer Minoru Miki’s response to gamelan. Miki uses in this piece not directly materials from gamelan music but explores gamelan-inspired atmospheres written with Western compositional techniques. Australian composer Gareth Farr’s work Kembang suling adapts patterns of especially Balinese gamelan, but it also refers to other Asian music such as Japanese Shakuhachi flute sounds. While Debussy, Miki, and Farr respond to gamelan music in various ways while writing for Western instruments, Lou Harrison is interested in adding Western instruments to a gamelan and writing music that develops out of Javanese sounds. It forces a true interaction between gamelan and Western art music cultures.

March 16th, 2012

• Friends of Rain Spring 2012 Concert, “Micro and Macro”

  7:30pm Friends of Rain, Lewis & Clark College’s faculty new music ensemble, presents a concert of exciting new music. Composer Marcus Maroney will deliver a pre-concert lecture at 6:45 pm in Evans Room 129. Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted. Friends of Rain will perform works of John Cage, George Crumb, György Kurtág, Stephen Andrew Taylor, Michael Johanson, the winner of the first annual Friends of Rain L&C Student Composition Contest, and Marcus Maroney. The program theme “Micro and Macro” explores the various creative responses by composers to ideas that are connected with the small-scale and the large-scale.

March 17th, 2012

• Friends of Rain First Annual Young Composers Forum

  3:00pm On Saturday, March 17^th  at 3 pm, we invite you to join moderator Marcus Maroney and five talented young composers at the Friends of Rain First Annual Young Composers Forum!  Five winning works of our Young Composer Competition will be selected and performed by Friends of Rain faculty and guests at this exciting new event.The performance of each work will be followed by an open discussion in which audience participation is invited. For more information, call (503) 768-7461 or see http://college.lclark.edu/departments/music/ensembles/friends_of_rain/ 
  

April 6th, 2012

• Barra Brown: Senior Performance Recital

  8:00pm Senior music major Barra Brown will present an evening of both classical and contemporary flute music.

April 8th, 2012

• Nate Stoll - Senior Recital

  6:00pm Senior Nate Stoll will present an evening of trombone and percussion music.

April 12th, 2012

• Percussion Ensemble Concert

  8:00pm

April 13th, 2012

• Rueben Lange: Senior Performance Recital

  8:00pm Senior music major Rueben Lange will present an evening of classical and modern clarinet music.

April 14th, 2012

• Young Composers

  10:00am - 5:00pm

April 15th, 2012

• Community Chorale & Orchestra Concert

  3:00pm Community Chorale and Orchestra Spring Concert. Jeffrey Specht and Jon Stuber, conductors. 3:00 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel. 

April 17th, 2012

• Senior Musicology Thesis Presentations

  3:00pm - 4:30pm Two seniors will present the findings of their musicology theses. Ethan Allred will speak on Poulenc, Early Music, and Nationalism, and Will Preston will discuss the stylistic development of the rock band XTC.

April 19th, 2012

• Wind Ensemble Concert

  8:00pm

April 20th, 2012

• Composition Program Recital

  7:00pm Join us for an exciting evening of hot off the press, newly composed solo and chamber music by the students in Lewis & Clark’s Composition Program in performances by students and faculty.

April 22nd, 2012

• Women’s Choir & Cappella Nova Concert

  3:00pm Cappella Nova and Women’s Chorus Spring Concert. Bruce Browne and Margaret Green, conductors. 3:00 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel. 

April 23rd, 2012

• Chamber Music Concert

  7:00pm - 8:30pm LC students will be presenting the best of classical music for small ensembles. Performances will include movements from piano trios by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and the most famous of Dvořák’s string quartets, “The American”.

• Electronic Music Concert

  8:00pm

April 24th, 2012

• Jazz Nite

  8:00pm

April 28th, 2012

• State Solo Competition

  All Day

April 29th, 2012

• Young Composers Recital

  3:00pm