Department
of Fine Arts
Performing Arts
Highlights 2004-2005
FMU
First Tuesday Chamber Music Series
Tuesday, 7 September 2004
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Lecture
Recital by Benjamin Woods, piano,
on
Johannes Brahms' Variations on a
Theme by Haendel, Opus 24
The first performance on the 2004-2005 cultural events
calendar
sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts will be a First Tuesday
Chamber Music Recital by pianist Dr. Benjamin Woods in Kassab Recital
Hall. At 8:00 pm on September 7, 2004, Dr. Woods will present
a
lecture recital on a work by Johannes Brahms, Variations and Fugue on a
Theme by Haendel, Opus 24.
Whenever the University calendar permits, the first Tuesday of each
month is designated to showcase the arts on campus. In
September,
Dr. Woods' recital will act to highlight the art gallery series
exhibitions. In the Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery is the
2004
Visual Arts and Art Education Alumni Invitational, bringing FMU
graduates back to campus to display their recent work in painting,
drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography and graphic design.
In
the University Center Gallery is "Nature Observed," a series of
paintings and drawings from nature by artist and biologist Stephen M.
Welch.
Benjamin Woods has given numerous solo piano concerts across the
country, including Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, and
Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City where he made his
d‚but in 1985.
As pianist, he has presented many faculty recitals at Francis Marion
University, chamber music and solo concerts at numerous other colleges
and universities, and performances at community concert series and
festivals. He has performed as guest soloist with the Florence Symphony
Orchestra, Florence SC, in concertos of Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky,
Dohnanyi and Gershwin. He has performed the Beethoven Choral Fantasy
with the Florence Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra. He has performed
Beethoven concertos nos. 3, 4, and 5 with conductor John Paul and
members of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Jackson Mississippi.
With the South Carolina Philharmonic, he has performed the Mozart Piano
Concerto no. 23. He was selected one of twelve national finalists in
the U.S. Information Agency's Artistic Ambassador Competition, and one
of ten finalists in the Beethoven International Piano Competition.
Besides performing in the Woods Family Ensemble with his wife Sherry
Woods, violist, and their children Christopher Woods, violinist, and
Adrienne Woods, cellist, he has collaborated in recital with the
Firenze String Quartet, and with artists Sue Butler Mills, soprano,
Roland LeRoy Skinner, bassoonist, and, William Mills, pianist. He has
also given concerts with Kathleen Vandekieft, Metropolitan Opera
soprano finalist, Harold Jones, concert flutist, and Steve Maxym,
principal bassoonist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Benjamin Woods has conducted concerts of the Francis Marion College
Chorus, the Florence Choral Society, and the Florence Masterworks Choir
and Orchestra. Having served as Music Director/Conductor of the
Florence Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 2002, he recently retired from
this post to devote all his energies to piano performance. Besides
great symphonic literature, he has conducted the Florence Symphony in
concertos and vocal works with artists such as Robert Jesselson and
Kenneth Law, cellists, David Kim, violinist, Kathleen Vandekieft and
Sue Orr, sopranos, Michael Best, tenor, Walter Hautzig, Raymond Dudley,
Dana Dixon, and Michael Kim, pianists, and the Eroica Trio.
Presently a professor of music at Francis Marion University in
Florence, SC, Benjamin Woods has recently received the distinction of
being named one of Francis Marion University's Board of Trustees'
Research Scholars. This designation recognizes his outstanding
scholarly achievements in music performance, and the promise of
continued scholarly activity in the future. He earned the BS degree in
performance and education as a scholarship student from Lamar
University in Beaumont, Texas. As a Graduate Fellowship recipient, he
received the Master of Music degree in performance from Midwestern
University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He received the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from the University of South Carolina, studying with
Raymond Dudley, Artist-in-Residence. His other teachers and coaches
include such outstanding musicians as Melissa Bayard, Verlie Mitchell,
Martha Craft, Hubert Kaszynski, Ivy Boland, and concert pianists Eugene
List, Beveridge Webster and Walter Hautzig.
FMU
First
Tuesday Chamber Music Series
Tuesday, 5 October 2004
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Woods
Duo Plus: Sherry Woods,
violist, with Bryan Rawls,
violinist, Benjamin Woods, pianist, and ensemble strings
This
concert will feature works by
Bach, Mozart, Ernest Bloch, Lalo, and a new composition by Sherry
Woods. Besides works from the Woods Duo repertoire, Dr. Woods
will spotlight the talents of Bryan Rawls, a student of hers about to
pursue a music major at USC in Columbia, and an ensemble of students
from her studio.
Drs. Benjamin and Sherry Woods will be joined by a group of gifted
young musicians from Sherry Woods’ private teaching studio
for the
October 5th First Tuesday Chamber Recital at Francis Marion University
in the Kassab Hall at 8:00 PM. Violinist Bryan Rawls will
will be
featured in solo works by Lalo and Bach as well as a Mozart Duo with
Sherry Woods. Rawls just received a full scholarship from the
University of South Carolina to pursue a degree in music; a member of
the Florence Symphony, he has received many honors on the
violin.
Rawls will join other award-winning students for larger works of
Mozart. Those students include Chelsea Schwoyer, Susan Lin, Oliver Kao,
Roman Lin, John Tsai, Amy Kuo, Jasper Lee, Mike Li, Sunny Chung,
Melanie Zhao, and Kenny Hsu. Guest cellists Jasmine Whelan and Sydney
Pullen have also been invited to participate. The Phoenix
Quartet, consisting of Susan Lin, Amy Kuo. Mike Li, and Jasmine Whelan
, will also be featured.
The Woods Duo will perform works by Bloch and the premiere of a new
work for viola and piano by Sherry Woods. The Duo is
currently
South Carolina Arts Commission Community Tour Artists for the 2003-2005
term. Benjamin Woods is a professor of music at Francis Marion
University and former conductor of the Florence Symphony Orchestra.
Sherry Woods has doctorates in viola and composition, is a member of
the South Carolina Philharmonic, and is principal violist of the
Florence Symphony. A Charleston Post review described her music as
“beautiful and riveting.”
PROGRAM
Duo for Violin and Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.A.Mozart
I. Allegro
Bryan Rawls, Sherry Woods
Partita in E major . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J.S. Bach
I. Prelude
Bryan Rawls
Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ernest Bloch
IV. Molto Vivo
Sherry Woods, Benjamin Woods
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W.A. Mozart
IV. Rondo
. . . . . . . . . . .Phoenix Quartet
Susan Lin, Amy Kuo, Mike Li, Jasmine Whelan
Viola Sonata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry Woods
II. Dark Horse
Sherry Woods, Benjamin Woods
Symphonie Espagnole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Eduard Lalo
I. Allegro non troppo
Bryan Rawls, Benjamin Woods
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W.A. Mozart
I. Allegro
Bryan Rawls, Chelsea Schwoyer, Susan Lin, Oliver Kao,
Roman Lin, John Tsai, Amy Kuo, Jasper Lee, Mike Li, Sunny
Chung, Melanie Zhao, Kenny Hsu, Nicole Veneroso, Jasmine
Whelan, & Sydney Pullen
Benjamin Woods, conductor
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FMU
Department of Fine Arts Guest Recital
Tuesday, 19 October 2004
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Ronald
High, tenor, in
Lecture Recital
with Benjamin Woods, piano
Dr.
High, a
professor
of voice at Benedict College in Columbia, will present a baritone vocal
recital of works of Adler, Scarlatti, Fauré, Schubert, and
Brahms. In addition, he will include folk songs and Black
spirituals.
Ronald
H.
High, a native Texan, began playing the
piano when he was four years old. He
received the B. M. degree, cum laude, from the University of North
Texas; the
M. M., with distinction, from Arizona State University; and the Doctor
of Musical
Arts degree from the University of Illinois. While attending this
institution,
he was an artist/pupil of William Warfield and John Wustman, pianist
for
Luciano Pavarotti. He has done additional study at the Music Academy of
the
West in Santa Barbara, California; the Blossom Music Festival in Kent,
Ohio;
the American and Sherwood conservatories in Chicago, Illinois; and
Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois. He has also studied with master
teachers and
coaches in various parts of the nation. He has been a recipient of
several
postdoctoral and faculty development grants, which have afforded him
the
opportunity to pursue research projects at Northwestern University,
Harvard
University, New York University, Emory University, and the Shenandoah
Conservatory.
High
has been a
collaborative pianist for noted artists
including the Barrett Sisters Gospel Trio, Thomas Carey, Gregory
Hopkins,
Robert Sims, Faye Robinson, Jo Ann Pickens, Ivan Thomas, and William
Warfield.
He was a participant in the Carnegie Hall Centennial Choir under the
direction
of Maestro Robert Shaw. In October of 2003, he participated in a
concert
tribute to Warfield titled “Homage to an American
Treasure,” which was
held at
the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Champaign-Urbana,
Illinois.
High
has been
selected a Senior Fulbright Scholar for the
spring semester 2005 to lecture, teach, and perform at the Hochschule
fur Musik
und Theater (Conservatory of Music and Drama) in Hannover, Germany. He
will
also be a part of the inauguration of the Institute for World Music at
the
Hochschule.
High
is listed
in Outstanding
Young
Men of America,
Men of
Distinction,
The
Dictionary of
International Biography, and American
Keyboard Artists.
FMU
Artist
Series Concert
Thursday, 21 October 2004
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Kenneth
Law, violoncello, and Douglas Weeks, piano
Kenneth Law,
violoncello, received
undergraduate and graduate degrees in performance from the Eastman
School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music, and a Graduate
Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of Paul
Katz, Alan Harris, and Stephen Kates. He also served as a chamber music
teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School from
1994-96.
Mr. Law has been a member of such orchestras as the Cleveland Chamber
Symphony, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, American Chamber Orchestra,
and has appeared as soloist throughout the southeast. His concert
appearances include performances at the German Embassy in Washington,
D.C., the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, and Alice Tully Hall in New
York City. He has also collaborated with such artists as Earl Carlyss,
formerly of the Juilliard String Quartet, Michael Tree of the Guarneri
Quartet, and the Ying String Quartet.
Most recently, Mr. Law has performed in the country of Panama as a
member of the Converse Trio, and in Winterthur, Switzerland, as a
member of the Greater Spartanburg Philharmonic Soloists. Mr. Law is a
past president of the South Carolina Chapter of the American String
Teachers Association with the National School Orchestra Association.
Mr. Law is Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Violoncello and
Chamber Music at the Carroll McDaniel Petrie School of Music of
Converse College, where he is also a teacher in the Alia Lawson
Pre-College Music and Dance Program. He is the cellist of the Converse
Trio, the principal cellist of the Greater Spartanburg Philharmonic and
Brevard Chamber Orchestra, member of the Phoenix Players, and director
of the Palmetto Cello Choir and Converse College Chamber Music
Workshop. Mr. Law joins the LYRA String Quartet for the 2003-04 season.
Douglas
Weeks
is Babcock
Professor of Piano at Converse College. During the summers, he
coordinates Piano Studies at the Brevard Music Festival in the NC
mountains. He has performed throughout the Southeastern US both as
soloist and as a member of the Converse Trio. He has also performed and
taught in twelve countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
under sponsorship of the US Information Agency. In spring 1999, Dr.
Weeks taught for four months at the Conservatory of Music, Cairo,
Egypt, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Most recently, he has performed
as soloist with the Spartanburg and Greenville, SC, Symphonies, the
Winterthur (Switzerland) Symphony, and in Panama City, Panama, with the
Converse Trio.
A prize winner in the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition,
Dr. Weeks competed in the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition in
Moscow. He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron Music Honorary
Fraternity and a two-time recipient of the SC Arts Commission's Artist
Fellowship in Music. He has been awarded the Kathryne Amelia Brown
Award at Converse College for excellence in teaching and a SC
Commission on Higher Education's Distinguished Professor Award. His
articles have appeared in Clavier and in the on-line journal, Piano
Pedagogy Forum.
Douglas Weeks holds a B.M. from Illinois State University, a M.M., with
a Performer's Certificate, from Indiana University, a D.M. from Florida
State University, and a License de Concert from the Ecole Normale de
Musique, Paris, France. His teachers include Abbey Simon, Jack
Radunsky, Edward Kilenyi, Tong Il Han, Rosina Lhevinne, and Maria
Curcio Diamand.
PROGRAM
Toccata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Girolamo Frescobaldi
(arr. Gaspar Cassado)
Sonata in G Minor, op. 5, no. 2 . . . . Ludwig van Beethoven
Adagio-Allegro
Rondo-Allegro
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano. . . . . . . . . Frank Bridge
Allegro ben moderato
Adagio ma non troppo
Allegro moderato
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FMU
Wind Symphony Concert
Thursday, 28 October 2004
McNair Science Building
Auditorium,
8:00 pm
University Wind Symphony
Dr.
Terry Roberts, conductor
The Wind Symphony rehearses on Tuesday evenings
and is
open to adult participation.
This
is the
third year we have performed in this format.
As you can see from the personnel roster, the membership
is
evenly
divided between FMU students and community participants.
We are always seeking additional
participants; if you play a band instrument or know someone looking for
a place
to play, please contact us.
Information
can be found at
http://web.fmarion.edu/~finearts/windband.htm
or email Dr. Roberts at
troberts@fmarion.edu.
PROGRAM
Huldigungsmarsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edvard Grieg
Arranged by Clair W. Johnson
Second Suite in F for Military Band . . . . . . . .Gustav Holst
Thus Do You Fare, My Jesus - J.S. Bach. . . . . . . Alfred Reed
American Folk Rhapsody No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . Clare Grundman
Caccia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W. Francis McBeth
Americans We . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Fillmore
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Flute
Aleisha Allison
Tamara Hamelink
Shana Hammond
Judy Niebergall.
Clarinet
Craig Alberty
Rachel Corbett
Cliff Gardner
Roy Haymond
Janet Townsend
Bass Clarinet
Sabrina Judge
Alto Saxophone
Akeia Deloach
Alonda Heyward
Jennifer Ann Rogozinski
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Tenor
Saxophone
Roderick Brown
Baritone Saxophone
Reesha Alexander
Trumpet
Terry Fancey
Lisa Hurley
Ricard Kopituk
Michael Lane
Beth Middleton
Jennifer Morris
Sandy Middleton
Randy Schell
Trombone
Jim Bos
Scott Johnson
Rob Lee
John Smith
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Euphonium
Lyn Alberty
Clayton Parham
Tuba
Brien Lovensheimer
John Russell
Percussion
David McQueen
Randy Oswalt
Steve Rummage |
FMU
First
Tuesday Chamber Music Series
Tuesday, 9 November 2004
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Charles
Fugo, piano
Always
a
favorite in recital and with the Florence Symphony, Dr. Fugo's program
promises to be a highlight of our First Tuesday Chamber Recital season.
Charles Fugo is a Professor of Music at the University of South
Carolina. He received his B.M. degree at Oberlin Conservatory and his
master’s and doctoral degrees at Indiana University. He also
studied at
the Akademie des Mozarteums in Salzburg, Austria. His teachers include
Joseph Schwartz, Winfried Wolf, Abbey Simon, and Jorge Bolet, with
chamber music study under Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio. He
has been on the USC music faculty since 1972, where he teaches piano,
supervises the accompanying program, and is coordinator of the piano
division. He served on the faculty of the Anderson College Piano
Performance Camp and is currently a staff member of the South Carolina
Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. He has
performed
with the South Carolina Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, the USC
Orchestra,
and the Charleston Symphony, and has appeared frequently on state-wide
Educational
Radio and TV programs. Dr. Fugo is also a member of the American Arts
Trio.
PROGRAM
Sonata in F-sharp Minor, Opus 25, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . Muzio Clementi
Piûttosto allegro con espressione (1752-1832)
Lento e patetico
Presto
Sonata in B-flat Minor, Opus 35. . . . . . . . . . . . . Frédéric Chopin
Grave; Doppio movimento (1810-1849)
Scherzo
Marche Funèbre: Lento
Finale: Presto
INTERMISSION
Theme and Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johannes Brahms
(transcribed from the Sextet (1833-1897)
in B-flat Major, Opus 18)
Three Transcriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sergei Rachmaninoff
Lullaby, Opus 16, No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) (1873-1943)
Daisies, Opus 38, No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)
Liebesleid (Fritz Kreisler)
Caprice Espagnol, Opus 37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moritz Moszkowski
(1854-1925)
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FMU
Artist
Series Concert
Tuesday, 23 November 2004
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Ensemble
Amarcord
ensemble amarcord
was founded in
autumn 1992 by former members of the renowned St. Thomas Boys Choir
Leipzig. The current line-up comprising Wolfram Lattke (tenor),
Dietrich Barth (tenor), Frank Ozimek (baritone), Daniel Knauft (bass)
and Holger Krause (bass) has remained stable since 1995.
Its musical work focuses on music from the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, as well as collaboration with contemporary composers. For
example, Bernd Franke, Ivan Moody, Marcus Ludwig, Siegfried Thiele and
Dimitri Terzakis have all written compositions for amarcord. Yet
amarcord‘s repertoire also contains a variety of different
programmes
covering all facets of vocal music ranging from madrigals through
romantic compositions to a cappella arrangements of well-known songs.
The young singers gained valuable stimulus from attending master
classes with the Hilliard Ensemble and the king‘singers.
This vocal quintet has won several international competitions,
including in Tolosa (Spain), Tampere (Finland), Pohlheim (Germany), and
the 1st Choir Olympiad in Linz (Austria). In 2002, amarcord won the
German Music Competition for Chamber Music in Bonn. Two years
previously, ensemble
amarcord
had received a grant from the German Music Council, and won the Crown
Prize awarded by Holsten, a major German brewery.
Alongside the Gewandhaus Orchestra and St. Thomas Boys Choir, amarcord
is one of Leipzig main musical representatives in both Germany and
abroad. The ensemble regularly appears at important international music
festivals, and has undertaken several concert tours all over Europe and
North America, where it was enthusiastically received in cities like
San Francisco, Washington, New York, Atlanta, Houston or Salt Lake
City.
In addition to its concert activity, amarcord has also made its mark by
establishing and organising "a cappella", the regular Leipzig festival
of vocal music, which has already hosted such ensembles as the
king‘singers, the Hilliard Ensemble, Chanticleer, the Huelgas
Ensemble
and the swingle singers.
THE SINGING CLUB
An
English
Renaissance Banquet
Now is the month of Maying
Thomas Morley (1557 - c. 1602)
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
John Dowland (1562-1626)
Pastime with good company
Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Remember me, my deir
Anonymous (C 16 Scottish)
Weep O mine eyes
John Wilbye (1574-1638)
Since Robin Hood
Strike it up, Tabor
Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623)
I love, alas, I love thee
Thomas Morley (1557 - c. 1602)
Traditionals from
Old and New
Worlds
German
Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517)
Cuban
Tu – en Cuba
Sanchez de Fuentez
Hungarian
Esti dal
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Australian
Waltzing Matilda
arr. Sidney Marquez Boquiren
Philippine
Pen-pen de Sarapen
arr. Sidney Marquez Boquiren
American
Dry Bones
arr. Livingston Gearhart
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The
Singing
Club
A Catch for five voices called
The Singing Club
Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
An den Mond
from Sieben Gesänge für Vier Männerstimmen
op. 11
Carl Steinacker (1785-1815)
Liebe und Wein (Julius Mosen)
from Sechs Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor op.
50
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
If You Care For Me
Fugue in C minor BWV 847
from ”The Well-Tempered Clavier” Book I
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
arr. Ward Swingle
Lullaby Of Birdland
George Shearing
arr. Alexander L’Estrange
My Funny Valentine
Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart
arr. Juan Garcia
Down By The Salley
Gardens
Blackbird
Paul McCartney
arr. Daryl Runswick
The Longest Time
Billy Joel
arr. Karsten Wolf
Good Vibrations
Brian Wilson/Mike Love
arr. Burkard Peter
Hit The Road Jack
Percy Mayfield
arr. Marcus Ludwig
ensemble
amarcord
Wolfram Lattke – tenor
Dietrich Barth – tenor
Frank Ozimek – baritone
Daniel Knauft – bass
Holger Krause – bass
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FMU
Artist Series Concert
Monday,
24
January 2005
McNair Auditorium, 8:00 pm
Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
performed by the National Players
Currently a
program of Olney Theatre Center, National
Players has earned a unique name and place in American
theater.
After 54 consecutive seasons of touring, this remarkable acting company
has given approximately 6,500 performances and workshops on plays by
Shakespeare, O'Neill, Moliere, Shaw, Kafka, Sophocles, Aeschylus,
Aristophanes, Tom Stoppard and Peter Shaffer. National
Players
has performed for the public in 35 states and 10 foreign countries,
reaching young audiences in areas that are isolated geographically or
economically; audiences that would otherwise never see quality live
performances of classic plays.
National Players was founded through the efforts of one man, Father
Gilbert V. Hartke, the founder and long-time chair of the Speech and
Drama department of Catholic University of America. Father
Hartke's vision led to the founding of Players, Incorporated in
1949. Since 1949, a single twin-bill truck-and-station- wagon
company, traveling under the banner of "Players, Incorporated,"
"University Players, " "Players," and finally "National Players," has
continued to bring classic productions across the country from
September to May.
After an extensive nationwide search, the directors choose from among
the most talented graduates of the country's top college and university
theater programs to become members of the touring company.
Continuing in the tradition of traveling players, the youthful troupe
is totally involved in every aspect of the plays they
perform.
They arrive a few hours before their scheduled performance to prepare
each stage: raise the set, hang and focus the lights, check sound
equipment and props, arrange dressing rooms, and perhaps run a brush-up
rehearsal before donning costumes and make-up. When the final
curtain falls, they do everything in reverse. Like the Abbey
Theatre in Dublin and the Old Vic in London, National Players companies
function smoothly as a team.
The National Players have a history of excellence and have received
accolades not only from their audiences, but from such luminaries as
Walter Kerr, drama critic emeritus of the New York Times; Patrick
Hayes, founder and managing director of the Washington Performing Arts
Society; and the late Helen Hayes, first lady of the American
theater. Players' alumni prominent on Broadway, television
and in
films include such names as John Heard, Lawrence Luckinbill, Gino
Conforti, Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Stan Wojewodski (former Dean of the Yale
School of Drama) and David Richards (head drama critic for the New York
Times). Most recently, National Players received special
recognition from The Shakespeare Guild, presenter of The Golden Quill,
the Sir John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts.
While National Players has a proven track record for developing young
theatrical talent (an astonishing 70% of National Players veterans are
working in the theater or related fields), it is also committed to the
development of young theater audiences. Through its
production of
plays and workshops with dramatic integrity and value, the company
seeks to instill in its audiences an appreciation for the experience of
theatergoing. This interaction between the company of actors
and
its audiences bears witness to the potency of the idea of young actors
engaging young audiences. These audiences discover the power
and
delight of some of the world's most enduring literature brought to life
specifically for their appreciation. This is education at its
best: direct, powerful and enlightening.
FMU
Department of Fine Arts Guest Recital
Tuesday, 1 February 2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
The
Firenze Quartet
The
Firenze String Quartet
was formed in 1978 in response to requests from the community for a
string quartet to play weddings, receptions, and church
music.
The musicians were all members of the Florence Symphony and happened to
all have a connection to Francis Marion College since they were all
wives of faculty members, and in the case of one of the musicians, a
faculty member herself.
In addition to community service the Firenze String Quartet has
performed a recital of chamber music just about every year since 1978,
usually at Francis Marion University, but also in Wilmington and
Morganton, North Carolina. They have played many locations in
the
Pee Dee and in Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, and Charleston.
Frequently, other musicians are asked to join them so that they can
play quintets or sextets in addition to the standard quartet literature.
The original members of the quartet are Thelma Hawkins, violin, Doris
West, violin, Sherry Woods, viola, and Julia Krebs, cello.
Starr
Ward frequently plays with the group as a member of a quintet or as one
of the violinists in the quartet.
Thelma Hawkins, violin, serves as assistant concertmistress of the
Florence Symphony Orchestra. As a retired public school
teacher,
she teaches privately and is the personnel manager for the Florence
Symphony Orchestra.
Doris West, violin, has played in the Florence symphony for over 30
years in the first violin section and as Principal Second
Violin.
She spent many years teaching strings in Florence, serving as the
orchestra director at Moore and West Florence High School.
Sherry Woods, viola, is Principal Viola of the Florence Symphony and a
member of the South Carolina Philharmonic. She has both a DMA
in
musical composition and a DMA in viola from the University of South
Carolina. Several of her compositions have been premiered by
the
Firenze String Quartet, others by the Florence Symphony Orchestra and
the Masterworks Choir. She maintains a studio of private
students
in Florence.
Julia Krebs, cello, was Principal Cellist of the Florence Symphony for
20 years. Dr. Krebs is well-known to Francis Marion
University
students as a professor and chair of the biology department and as one
of the University's Distinguished Professors.
Starr Ward, violin, is currently the concertmistress of the
Florence Symphony Orchestra. She has been a soloist with the
symphony. She graduated from UNC-Greensboro with a Bachelor
of
Music and Master of Music in Music Education.
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format (narrow right column)
PROGRAM
Moment Musical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franz Schubert
String Quartet in Bb Major, Opus 18, No. 6. . . Beethoven
Allegro con brio
Starr Ward, Thelma Hawkins, Sherry Woods, Julia Krebs
Quartet No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Borodin
Scherzo
Nocturne
Thelma Hawkins, Starr Ward, Sherry Woods, Julia Krebs
Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sherry Woods
Thelma Hawkins, Doris West, Sherry Woods, Julia Krebs
One Hand, One Heart . . . . . . . . . . Leonard Bernstein
Tonight
Starr Ward, Thelma Hawkins, Sherry Woods, Julia Krebs
Bohemian Rhapsody . . . . . . . .Freddie Mercury of Queen
Thelma Hawkins, Doris West, Sherry Woods, Julia Krebs
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CANCELED
DUE TO ILLNESS
FMU Artist
Series Concert
(Was scheduled for Tuesday 1 Feb 2005)
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Barbara
and Gerhardt Suhrstedt, piano duettists
"Astounding
uniformity
and precision," "a performance that
was almost magical" are the ways critics have described Barbara and
Gerhardt Suhrstedt, one of America's few touring one-piano, four-hand
teams. The Suhrstedts presented their first piano duet
concert in
1979. Since their 1982 New York debut, they have performed in
40
states, in Canada, and in Russia. Their May, 1998 concert at
the
Grand Palace in Peterhof (a summer palace of the Romanov Tsars) brought
them a standing ovation.
Four Hands Fantastique!
will
bring to life the era of La Belle Epoque and beyond. Combining music of
Bizet, Debussy, Fauré
and Ravel with art slides of paintings by Degas, Gauguin, Monet and
Renoir, the Suhrstedts will illustrate the many ways in which French
artists inspired and influenced each other, often producing landmarks
in French art between 1870 and 1920. Poetry of Mallarmé and
Verlaine will complement this French feast for eyes and ears!
The Suhrstedts will be performing in Florence County schools the week
following the January 20 concert, including a three day musical
residency at Royall Elementary. It has been five years since
they
last performed here, and we welcome Barbara and Gerhardt back to
Francis Marion University!
FMU
First
Tuesday Chamber Music Series
Tuesday, 8 February 2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Stephen
Carlson, piano
Stephen Carlson is a versatile soloist and chamber musician who has
performed at many colleges, universities, and festivals throughout the
Midwest, Southeastern U.S., and Eastern Canada. Since 1995,
he
has regularly appeared at Minnesota Valley Sommarfest where he has
performed an array of solo and chamber works. Carlson has
performed chamber music with members of the Greenville Symphony and
also performed Mozart’s Concerto in A major, K. 414 in cities
throughout eastern Canada, including Montreal, Quebec City, and Halifax
with the Gustavus Adolphus College Chamber Orchestra. In
addition, he is one-half of the McKay-Carlson Piano Duo. He
was
appointed to the Performing Artist Roster of the South Carolina Arts
Commission and is also in demand as an adjudicator and
clinician.
Carlson will make his New York debut as a solo recitalist this March in
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He completed the Doctor
of
Musical Arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy at the University
of Iowa where he studied with Uriel Tsachor. He is also a
graduate of the University of Illinois and Gustavus Adolphus College
where he studied with Ian Hobson and John McKay,
respectively.
Carlson is in his fifth year as Assistant Professor of Music and
Coordinator of the Music Program at Coker College in Hartsville, South
Carolina, where he teaches piano, piano literature, piano pedagogy and
music theory. Formerly Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
at
the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, he has also taught piano at
Gustavus Adolphus College and St. Joseph’s School of Music in
St. Paul,
Minnesota.
strange
columns
to
format (narrow right column)
PROGRAM
Six Variations, Op.
34........... Ludwig
van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
Five Preludes, Op. 74.............. Alexander Scriabin
Douloureux,
déchirant
(1872‑1915)
Très lent,
contemplatif
Allegro
drammatico
Lent, vague,
indécis
Fier, belliqueux
Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13.............. Robert
Schumann
(1810-1856)
Bruyères................................Claude
Debussy
La puerta del vino
(1862-1918)
L'Isle joyeuse
Three Movements from
Petrushka.........Igor Stravinsky
Russian
Dance
(1882-1971)
In
Petrushka's
Room
Shrovetide
Fair |
FMU
Department of Fine Arts Guest Recital
Saturday, 12 February 2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 7:00 pm
Caroline
Jefferies, violin
Caroline
Jefferies
recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of South
Carolina on May 6, 2004 with a Bachelor of Music degree in violin
performance. As a "Friends of the School of Music" full
scholarship recipient, Jefferies participated in the USC Symphony
Orchestra and USC Chamber Orchestra. In 2001 and 2003,
Jefferies
won the S.C. M.T.N.A. Collegiate Strings Solo Competition and placed as
the alternate in the Southern Division in 2003.
Jefferies was featured on the soundtrack of the film Postcards produced
by Duke University in 2003.
During the summers of 2001-2004, Jefferies attended the Sewanee Summer
Music Festival where she was chosen numerous times as the concertmaster
of the Sewanee Symphony. She was also an assistant to Charles
Wadsworth at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in 2003 and 2004.
As a member of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Philharmonic,
Statesboro-Georgia Southern Symphony and Florence Symphony, Jefferies
maintains a very active free-lance career in the tri-state
area.
Most recently, she has accepted the position of concertmaster of the
Charleston Civic Orchestra. In August of 2004, she began
teaching
at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County where she currently has a
private studio of fifteen students.
Originally from Hartsville, S.C., Caroline Jefferies began her violin
studies at the age of eight with Dr. Sherry Woods of Florence, S.C.
Fine
Arts
Concert
Monday, 21 February 2005
McNair Science Building Auditorium, 7:00 pm
United
States Air Force
Heritage of America Band
sponsored by Morning
News and Francis Marion
University
The
United States Air Force Heritage of America Band has a rich
history of fostering our national heritage, building and sustaining
American patriotism, and enhancing esprit de corps in the United States
Air Force. It was one of the original Army Air Corps bands, created by
order of the Secretary of War on October 1, 1941 and assigned to
Barksdale Field, Louisiana. In June 1946, after a short stay at Brooks
Field, Texas, the band arrived at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, its
current home.
For
over
half a century, it has represented the nation and the Air
Force with musical and military distinction to the citizens of the
Mid-Atlantic in live concerts, to the nation in televised events such
as the Today show and the DESERT STORM National Victory Parade, to a
worldwide audience through the Web and internationally-distributed
video and compact disc recordings, and to heads of state such as the
Queen of England, the President of France, the Shah of Iran, and
several U.S. presidents.
The
band's 61 men and women are assigned to two primary ensembles:
the USAF Heritage of America Band (which doubles in concert and
ceremonial roles) and the USAF Blue Aces (a popular music ensemble).
The concert band breaks down into five independent touring ensembles:
the USAF Rhythm in Blue Jazz Ensemble (which also fields the USAF
Heritage of America Dixie Players), the USAF Heritage Brass Quintet,
the USAF Tradewinds and USAF Langley Winds woodwind quintets, and the
USAF American Clarinet Quartet. Each year, the band's ensembles travel
more than 30,000 miles to perform 340 concerts for a half million
listeners across a seven-state region from New Jersey to South
Carolina.
The
USAF
Heritage of America Band's exceptional musicianship has
earned international critical acclaim and numerous honors: eight Air
Force Outstanding Unit Awards, four Air Force Organizational Excellence
Awards, three Colonel George S. Howard Citations of Musical Excellence
for Military Concert Band, North Carolina's Order of the Long Leaf
Pine, and countless state and municipal proclamations. Under the
leadership of its commander and conductor, Major Douglas Monroe, the
USAF Heritage of America Band remains at the forefront of preserving
and enriching America's musical heritage into the 21st century.
For
information concerning concerts and tours by the USAF Heritage
of America Band and its component musical units, please contact:
Director
of
Operations
USAF Heritage of America Band
86 Hickory Street
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia 23665-2111
(757)764-2931, DSN 574-2931, Fax (757)764-7299
For
more
information about Air Force Bands and their assigned touring areas,
please visit the USAF
Bands Division
site.
FMU
First Tuesday Chamber Music Series
Tuesday,
1
March 2005
Kassab
Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Sue Orr,
soprano, with
Benjamin Woods, piano
Sue Butler Orr, a native
of Birmingham,
Alabama, graduated from Samford University with a Bachelor of Music
Degree in vocal performance. While at Samford, she studied with Eleanor
Ousley, and appeared as soprano soloist with the university orchestra
and sang in numerous opera productions. She then attended Florida State
University, receiving a Master of Music Degree also in vocal
performance, studying with Eugene Tally-Schmidt. Since coming to
Florence, SC in 1969, Mrs. Orr has sung in many churches, appeared as
soloist with the Masterworks Choir, Florence Symphony Orchestra, and
the Longbay Symphony.
For the past twenty-six years, Mrs. Orr has taught at Francis Marion
University. As assistant professor of music, she is the director of the
choral program and teaches private voice. Under her leadership, the choral
program
has
grown and now includes two choral groups: the Concert Choir and CUT
TIME, the small show choir. CUT TIME recently performed in Disney
World's Magic Kingdom, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Vienna Austria, and
will participate in a Music Festivals cruise aboard Sovereign of the
Seas on March 31, 2005.
Benjamin Woods has given
numerous solo piano
concerts across the country, including Coolidge Auditorium of the
Library of Congress, and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City where
he made his debut in 1985. As pianist, he has presented many faculty
recitals at Francis Marion University, chamber music and solo concerts
at numerous other colleges and universities, and performances at
community concert series and festivals. He was selected one of twelve
national finalists in the U.S. Information Agency's Artistic Ambassador
Competition, and one of ten finalists in the Beethoven International
Piano Competition.
Benjamin Woods has conducted concerts of the Francis Marion College
Chorus, the Florence Choral Society, and the Florence Masterworks Choir
and Orchestra. Having served as Music Director/ Conductor of the
Florence Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 2002, he recently retired from
this post to devote all his energies to piano performance.
Presently a professor of music at Francis Marion University in
Florence, SC, Benjamin Woods has recently received the distinction of
being named one of Francis Marion University's Board of Trustees'
Research Scholars.
In this recital plans are to alternate Lieder
(art
songs) by Franz Schubert
with piano
transcriptions by Franz Liszt. Included will be Liebesbotschaft,
Das
Fischermädchen,
Die Stadt, Am Meer and Die Forelle.
PROGRAM
Liebesbotschaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Franz Schubert
Mrs.
Orr
Liebesbotschaft
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franz Liszt
Dr.
Woods
Das
Fischermädchen.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .Franz Schubert
Mrs.
Orr
Das
Fischermädchen.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . Franz Liszt
Dr.
Woods
Die
Stadt
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Franz Schubert
Mrs.
Orr
Die
Stadt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franz Liszt
Dr.
Woods
Am
Meer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Franz Schubert
Mrs.
Orr
Am
Meer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franz Liszt
Dr.
Woods
Die
Forelle
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Franz Schubert
Mrs.
Orr
Die
Forelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franz Liszt
Dr.
Woods |
FMU
Wind Symphony Concert
Thursday, 3 March 2005
McNair Science Building
Auditorium,
8:00 pm
University Wind Symphony
Dr.
Terry Roberts, conductor
The Wind Symphony rehearses on Tuesday evenings
and is
open to adult participation.
This
is the
third year we have performed in this format.
As you can see from the personnel roster, the membership
is
evenly
divided between FMU students and community participants.
We are always seeking additional
participants; if you play a band instrument or know someone looking for
a place
to play, please contact us.
Information
can be found at
http://web.fmarion.edu/~finearts/windband.htm
or email Dr. Roberts at
troberts@fmarion.edu.
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PROGRAM
Procession of the Nobles . . . . . . .Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
Prelude, Opus 3, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . Sergei Rachmaninoff
George Washington Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . William Schuman
Buffalo Jump Ritual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Bukvich
The Symphonic Gershwin . . . . . . . . . . . . George Gershwin
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FMU
Artist Series Concert
Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Sakiko
Ohashi, piano
Sakiko Ohashi, a
native of Kobe, Japan, began her piano
studies at the age of four. By the time she was 10 years old, she was
accepted to the Juilliard Pre-College Division as a student of Herbert
Stessin. Since then, performances have taken her throughout the United
States, Canada, Japan, and Europe.
In 1996, Ms. Ohashi made her concerto debut at Lincoln Center in New
York, performing Bartok's 3rd piano concerto with the Juilliard
Symphony conducted by Otto-Werner Mueller. She is also the winner of
the 1993 E. Nakamichi Concerto Competition at the Aspen Music Festival
where she appeared with the Aspen Young Artists Orchestra. Her other
concerto appearances have included the South Carolina Philharmonic,
Florence Orchestra, New Orleans Civic Orchestra, Dover Symphony and the
Killington Music Festival Orchestra. In New York, her appearances have
included venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall,
Juilliard Theatre, and The Harvard Club.
At the Juilliard School, her awards and scholarships included Van
Cliburn, Lilian Halpern, Bertha Levin, Alexander Siloti, and the
Maxwell Muriel Gluck Fellowship. She studied chamber music under Felix
Galimir, Stephen Clapp, and Jonathan Feldman. An avid chamber musician,
she has collaborated with the members of the New York Philharmonic,
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Atlanta, and Chicago Symphonies.
Ms. Ohashi has appeared in numerous music festivals, including the
Aspen Music Festival, the Killington Music Festival, Orford Centre for
the Arts, Banff Center for the Arts, Fontainebleau Music Festival in
France, Glassboro Summer Session, and Mozarteum Summer Academy in
Salzburg, Austria.
Ms.Ohashi holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard
School, and has taught at the Greenwich House of Music in New York and
at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Tennessee. She has studied with
Zitta Zohar and participated in masterclasses with Anton Kuerti,
Philippe Entremont, Gaby Casadesus, Philippe Bianconi, Bernd Glemser,
and Catherine Vickers. She is featured in 3 CDs of Creole composers
Gottschalk, Dede, and Lambert on the Naxos label.
In addition to her solo performances, she collaborates with violinist
Helen Hwaya Kim and pianist Anna Stoytcheva.
Ms. Ohashi currently resides in New Orleans, LA where she is the
faculty for piano at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. She is
also the executive/artistic director of the New Orleans Chamber Music
Festival, which opened its first season in Jan. 2005.
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PROGRAM
French Suite Nr. 2 in c minor .
. . . . . J. S. Bach
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Air
Menuet
Gigue
Suite Opus 14 . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . .Bela
Bartok
Allegretto
Scherzo
Allegro
molto
Sostenuto
L'isle joyeuse. . .
. . . . . . . .
. Claude
Debussy
Sonata Op. 36 . . .
. . . . . . . Sergei
Rachmaninov
Allegro
agitato
Non
Allegro-Lento
L'istesso
Tempo- Allegro molto
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First
Tuesday Chamber Music Series
Tuesday, 5 April 2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
The Woods
Family
Los Angeles musicians Adrienne and Christopher Woods are joining parents Sherry and Benjamin Woods to perform the First Tuesday concert on April 5 at Francis Marion University. The recital will include works by Bach, Handel-Halverson, Mozart, and the premiere of a new string trio by Sherry Woods.
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FMU
Department of Fine Arts Concert
Thursday, 7 April 2005
McNair Science Building
Auditorium,
8:00 pm
Jazz Express with visiting
artist Ingrid
Jensen, trumpet
Craig Alberty, director
Selected
by Down
Beat as one of the "25 most important improvising musicians of the
future" and rated in the top three in a number of their critics polls
for "talent deserving wider recognition", Ingrid has garnered an
impressive reputation for herself.
Born
in
Vancouver and raised in Nanaimo, Canada, she left home after receiving
a number of scholarships and awards to attend the Berklee College of
Music in Boston. Since graduating in 1989 her life has been a whirlwind
of musical activities. From her days in the all-female band DIVA, to
establishing herself and her music in a wide array of musical genres,
Ingrid has made her mark. Her three CDs' for the ENJA label won her
numerous nominations from the Canadian Juno Awards and a win in 1995
for her first of the three, Vernal Fields.
Her
performances
as a leader and as a featured soloist have taken her around the world
from Canada to Japan, South America, Great Britain, the Caribbean and
to almost every country in Europe and Scandinavia.
Her
career
within New York is a busy one as well. Performing with the Maria
Schneider Orchestra, a number of other New York-based bands and with
her own groups. Ingrid has received rave reviews and a strong
reputation in the jazz circle. In 2003 she was nominated, for the
second time, alongside trumpeter Dave Douglas for a JJA Award in New
York. She played Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess at the San Francisco Jazz
Festival, under the direction of Maria Schneider and was also featured
in the festivals' tribute to Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard, along with
Terrence Blanchard, Eddie Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson and Kenny
Garrett. Some of the many musicians she has performed and or recorded
with include; Steve Wilson, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Dr.Lonnie Smith, Marc
Copland, Bob Berg, Gary Thomas, Gary Bartz, Jeff Hamilton, Bill
Stewart, Terri-Lynn Carrington, Geoff Keezer, Billy Hart, George
Garzone, Chris Connor, Victor Lewis, Clark Terry, the Maria Schneider
Orchestra and the DIVA big band.
She
is currently
on faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, as well
as having spent time in Austria as professor of Jazz Trumpet at the
Bruckner Conservatory of Music and at the Hochshule for Musik in
Berlin. She continues to travel and perform extensively, conducting
clinics and workshops as well as playing with her own groups and
appearing as a guest with a variety of ensembles from around the world.
Her current summer workshops include positions at the Salzburg Jazz
Seminar and the Port Townsend Jazz Camp. For more information
visit http://www.ingridjensen.com.
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PROGRAM
Comin' Home Baby . . . . . . . . . . Bob Dorough, Ben Tucker
Arranged by John Berry
Don't Get Around Much Anymore. . . . . . . . .Duke Ellington
.Arrenged by Gordon Goodwin
Fly Me To The Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bart Howard
Arranged by Roger Holmes
Caravan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Duke Ellington
Arranged by John Berry
Night Train. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jimmy Forrest
Arranged by John Berry
Blue Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Irving Berlin
Arranged by Peter Blair
A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square . . . . Manning Sherwin
Arranged by John Berry
Ramblin' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ornette Coleman
Arranged by Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen - Trumpet
Barracudas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gil Evans
Arranged by Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen - Trumpet
Woodcarvings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ingrid Jensen
Arranged by Laura Kahle
Ingrid Jensen - Trumpet
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FMU
Department of Fine Arts Guest Recital
Sunday, 10 April 2005
McNair Science Building
Auditorium,
3:00 pm
Florence Symphony Youth Orchestra
Dr.
Terry Roberts, conductor
The Florence Symphony Youth Orchestra will be performing
Sunday
April 10, 2005 at 3:00 in McNair Auditorium at Francis Marion
University. The program will include selections from Smetana,
Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams and the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean".
The orchestra is made up of students from Florence and the
surrounding area in grades 6-12. They rehearse on a weekly
basis
after school and perform three times a year. In February they
performed for over 1400 Fourth Grade students from Florence School
District 1 at the Florence Civic Center.
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PROGRAM
Two Dances from "The Bartered Bride" . . . . Bedrich Smetana
Polka
Dance of the Comedians
Dance Suite for Strings. . . . . . . . . .Maurice C. Whitney
Allemande
Sarabande
Gigue
Marche Slave, opus 31. . . . . . . . . . . Piotr Tchaikovsky
English Folk Songs Suite . . . . . . .Ralph Vaughan Williams
"Seventeen come Sunday"
"My Bonny Boy"
"Folk Songs from Somerset"
Pirates of the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . .Klaus Badelt
arr. Ricketts
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FMU
Wind Symphony Concert
Tuesday, 19 April 2005
McNair Science Building
Auditorium,
8:00 pm
University Wind Symphony
Dr.
Terry Roberts, conductor
The
Wind Symphony rehearses on Tuesday evenings and is open to adult
participation. This
is the third year we
have performed in
this format. The membership is almost evenly divided between FMU
students and
community participants. We are always seeking additional participants;
if you
play a band instrument or know someone looking for a place to play,
please
contact us. Additional information can be found on our website
at
http://web.fmarion.edu/~finearts/windband.htm
or
you
may contact Dr. Roberts by email at
troberts@fmarion.edu.
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PROGRAM
Jubilus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan Van der Roost
Midway March. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Williams
Arr. John Moss
Adagio Sostenuto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. Muffat
Arr. A. Frackenpohl
Celebration for Band. . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Palmer
The Circus Bee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Henry Filmore
The Washington Post . . . . . . . . . . .John Philip Sousa
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FMU
Department
of Fine Arts
Tuesday, 19 April
2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman
Fine Arts
Center, 8:00 pm
Francis
Marion’s
show choir, CUT TIME is an audition-only group which
combines
singing and choreography. This group performs throughout the
region for schools and service organizations. In the fall of
1996
they traveled to Lake City and Charleston, singing in 5 high
schools. In October of 1997 they sang at Cosmic
Ray’s Starlight
Café in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World in
Orlando. In
1998 they traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, in Washington, D.C. and in
Vienna, Austria. In April of 2002, they returned to Disney
World
and Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café. Spring
of 2003 included a
performance cruise to the Bahamas.
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PROGRAM
Mountain Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Randy Owen
Cowboy Take Me Away. . . . . . . . . . . Marcus Hummon & Martie Seidel
Two of a Kind Workin' On A Full House. . . . . . . . . . . .Bobby Boyd
Zac Calcutt
We Danced Anyway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Deana Carter
Heather Moore
I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carter Stanley
If You're Not In It For Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shania Twain
Kristen Owen
Up!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shania Twain & R.J. Lange
To Get Me To You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diane Warren
Amber Wilks
T-R-O-U-B-L-E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Gilpin
How Do I Live? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diane Warren
Kristen Moore
Party For Two. . . . . . . . . . . . . Shania Twain & Billy Currington
Shannon Price and Courtney Dease
Hello Darlin'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conway Twitty
Joey Webster
I Hope You Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . Tia Sillers & Mark D. Sanders
If Bubba Can Dance I Can Too . . . . . . . . Bob McDill & Mike McGuire
Mountain Music (Reprise)
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CUT
TIME
MEMBERS
Stacy
Gandy
Matt
Brown
Heather
Moore
Zac
Calcutt
Kristen
Moore
Courtney
Dease
Kristen
Owen
Ryan
Floyd
Shannon
Price
Jason
Jones
Christian
Weatherford Patrick
Jones
Amber
Wilks
Joey
Webster
A
very special Thank You to Mandy Domenech, CUT TIME's choreographer this
semester . We
think she did an outstanding job and we enjoyed
working
with her.
Program
cover
and posters designed by Jason Jones.
FMU
Department of Fine Arts
Thursday, 21 April 2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Recital:
Piano Students of
Dr. Benjamin Woods
`
FMU
Department
of Fine Arts Senior Recital
Friday, 22 April 2005
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm
Eric
Ard, piano
`
FMU
Department of Fine Arts
Sunday, 24 April
2005
Central United
Methodist Church,
3:00 pm
The choral program at Francis Marion affords an
opportunity
for
students who enjoy singing to do just that. The Concert Choir is open
to all students without audition. They rehearse three times per week
and present a concert at the end of the semester in addition to singing
for graduation. CUT TIME, FMU's show choir, is an audition-only group,
which performs both on and off campus for various organizations.
Interested students should contact the Choral Director.
THANK YOU
To Central United Methodist Church and Bill Mills for making it
possible for us to have our concert here.
To Professors Glen Gourley and Benjamin Woods for singing with us on
this concert.
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Concert
Choir at
Central United Methodist Church
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PROGRAM
Hush! Somebody's Callin' My Name . . . . . . . Arr. Brazeal W. Dennard
Maria Fogle and Danielle Richardson, soloists
I Hear a Voice A-Prayin' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Houston Bright
Let The Heaven Light Shine On Me . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Moses Hogan
If I Got My Ticket, Can I Ride?. . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Robert Shaw
Courtney Dease, soloist
My Lord, What A Mornin'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry T. Burleigh
Ain'-A That Good News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William L. Dawson
Choir Ensemble
Zac Calcutt, conductor
I Want Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Jester Hairston
My God Is A Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Shaw-Parker
Kevin Deaver, soloist
Set Down Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Robert Shaw
Alonda Heyward and Jason Jones, soloists
Sometimes I Feel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Shaw-Parker
Stacy Gandy, soloist
I Know I Been Changed. . . . . . . . . . . . Arr. Roy L. Belfield, Jr.
Glen Gourley, soloist
I Been In The Storm So Long. . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Robert De Cormier
Christian Weatherford, soloist
My God Is So High. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Moses Hogan
Benjamin Woods, soloist
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CONCERT
CHOIR MEMBERS
SOPRANO
Emily
Blackwell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pamplico, SC
Niasha
Blanding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brooklyn, NY
Shaquinn
Goodwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greenville, SC
Alonda
Heyward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summerville, SC
Lakisha
Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sumter, SC
Susan
Kinman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
Christian
Weatherford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pamplico, SC
Megan
Welch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
Amber
Wilks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
ALTO
Stephanie
Arnette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dillon SC
Brittney
Ayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
Ashley
Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marion, SC
Maria
Fogle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Columbia, SC
Stacy
Gandy**. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapin SC
Danielle
Richardson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Greenville, SC
Kimberly
Rodgers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kingstree, SC
Brittney
Sherman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Conway, SC
TENOR
Kyle
Brazell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winnsboro, SC
Zac
Calcutt* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
Courtney
Dease*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scranton, SC
Frank
Emmanuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sri Lanka
Robert
Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
BASS
Chris
Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
Chris
Collange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alencon, France
Kevin
Deaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
Ryan
Floyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Johnsonville, SC
Jarrod
Harrison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lamar, SC
Chris
Hatfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
Jason
Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Florence, SC
CHOIR
ENSEMBLE
SOPRANO
Emily
Blackwell
Alonda
Heyward
Christian
Weatherford
Amber
Wilks
ALTO
Brittany
Ayers
Stacy
Gandy
Brittany
Sherman
TENOR
Courtney
Dease
Robert
Jones
BASS
Ryan
Floyd
Chris
Hatfield
Jason
Jones
*
Adele
Kassab Music Scholarship Recipient
**
Adrian
Ketcham Music Scholarship Recipient
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