UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE – Department of Music
SPRING CONCERTS May 25 – June 3, 2011
UCR is Composing
MAY 25 Wed @ 8 pm – Performance Lab, ARTS 166 A showcase of new, live, local and original music by UCR students and faculty – featuring guess performers Jennifer Choi, violin; Alma Fernandez, viola; and David Mergen, cello. Paulo Chagas, director. $10 / $8/ $6. Parking: $5 in Lot 1 (no fee with UC permit). Read more
MAY 26 Thurs @ 8 pm – University Theatre UCR Highlander Band features Gustav Holst’s First Suite for Military and Robert Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American Dances. UCR Jazz Ensemble follows with Joe Henderson’s Recorda Me and Bronilau Kaper’s Invitation. Bill Helms, conductor. $10 / $8/ $6. Parking: $5 in Lot 6 (no fee with UC permit). Read more
Chansons et Danceries: Medieval & Renaissance Music from France & Flanders
MAY 27 Fri @ 8 pm – Performance Lab, ARTS 166
UCR Collegium Musicum reawakens the timeless beauty of French and Franco-Flemish Music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 1250–1550, performed on historicallyappropriate instruments. Janet Beazley, director. UCR Chamber Ensembles present the Sextet for Piano and Winds by Francis Poulenc and Fratres by Arvo Pärt for violin and piano. Frances Moore, director. $10 / $8/ $6. Parking: $5 in Lot 1 (no fee with UC permit). Read more
Twilight Carillon Recital
MAY 28 Sat @ 6 pm – Bell Tower The program includes compositions by Matthias Van den Gheyn, Robert Giracello, Donald Johns and Dom Pedro IV, a king of Portugal. This piece was arranged c. 1821 for the automatic playing mechanism of the carillon located at the Mafra Palacenear Lisbon, Portugal. David Christensen, University Carillonneur. Free and open to the public. Parking: $1 per-hour permit dispenser in Lot 1. Read more
A Concert of Mexican Music and Dance
June 2 Thurs @ 8 pm – University Theatre
Featuring traditional and popular Mexican musics; dance and music from the regions ofJalisco, Colima and Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with a student-directed project by Ballet Folklorico de UCR. UCR Mexican Folkloric Ensemble (MUS 175)-MariachiMexicatl/Conjunto Mexicatl, Laura Sobrino, director. Dance of Mexico ( MUS73ab): Juan Rios (Johnavalos), director/choreographer. $10 / $8/ $6. Parking: $5 in Lot 6 (no fee with UC permit). Read more
UCR Gamelan Ensemble: Music of Indonesia
June 3 Fri @ 8 pm – Performance Lab, ARTS 166
Traditional and contemporary music of Indonesia, with urban folk music by Orkes Pantai Barat (UCR Keroncong). A gamelan ensemble includes tuned bronze gongs, metal-keyed instruments, xylophones and drums.
$10 / $8/ $6. Parking: $5 in Lot 1 (no fee with UC permit).
Performance Lab, ARTS 166 #411B
University Theatre Building #498A
ARTS Building Amphitheatre Steps Building #411
TICKETS: $10 General, $8 Students & Seniors, $6 Children 12 & under
Fine Arts Ticket Office: 951.827.4331 located at the University Theatre north of Lot 6.
Open Mon – Fri, 10am – 4pm and one hour before performances in the University Theatre.
Arts Building Ticket Office: Open one hour before performances in the ARTS Building.
Ticketmaster: 213.480.3232, 714.740.2000, www.ticketmaster.com
INFORMATION: 951.827.3245 performingarts@ucr.edu www. performingarts.ucr.edu