Join us Monday for an evening of choral music by the WCU Concert Choir, University Chorus, and Early Music Ensemble. Robert Holquist directs this performance that includes a variety of classical, broadway, and pop music. Featured are vocal solos by faculty musicians Mary Kay Bauer, William Martin, and Robert Holquist, and the concert will conclude with the combined choirs performing Mozart's "Gloria in Excelsis" from his Twelfth Mass and “The Awakening” by Joseph Martin. For more information on the concert, see this article at http://news.wcu.edu/11502.asp. This free performance takes place Monday at 8pm in the Recital Hall of the Coulter Building.
On Tuesday, the Catamount Concert Series presents the WCU Jazz Ensemble in concert with guest tenor saxophonist Chad Eby. Eby is on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. See more about him at http://www.uncg.edu/mus/faculty/jazz.html. Pavel Wlosok directs the WCU Jazz Ensemble in this free concert, Tuesday at 8pm in the Recital Hall of the Coulter Building.
On Wednesday evening, the WCU Gamelan Ensemble welcomes guest dance artist Siti Kusujiarti. Trained in Central Javanese dance, Kusujiarti will join the "Low Tech" Ensemble to perform a traditional dance. Also featured will be a new piece for gamelan composed by WCU graduate student Mike Young. The gamelan is an orchestra of instruments (gongs, xylophones, and other instruments) that performs the traditional music of Indonesia and other countries in Southeast Asia. See this article for more information: http://www.wcu.edu/11341.asp. The gamelan concert is free and takes place Wednesday at 8pm in the Recital Hall of the Coulter Building.
Please see the complete calendar below for more music events this week, including performances by the WCU Jazz Combos and the Western Carolina Civic Orchestra. The WCU Fine Arts Calendar has a full list of this semester's events from the School of Music, as well as other arts events. Events are free admission unless they are marked ($). Please check back often for further concert information, additions, and changes.
Updated on November 16, 2008.
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