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November 06, 2009
The KU School of Music is pleased to present the 85th annual Holiday Vespers concert at the Lied Center of Kansas on Sunday, December 6, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets for this concert can be purchased through the Lied Center Box Office, 785-864-2787, and are $12.50/general admission and $10/students and senior citizens.
November 05, 2009
KU student Jeremy Wohletz will perform on clarinet at the Heritage Concert, an event featuring alumni from Baker University, at the First United Methodist Church in Baldwin City, KS. The concert will take place on Thursday November 12th at 7:30 PM.
November 05, 2009
KU's own Kip Haaheim, associate professor of music composition, wrote the score for the movie "The Only Good Indian," directed by Kevin Wilmott and written by Thomas Carmody. This movie is currently playing at Liberty Hall, downtown Lawrence.
November 04, 2009
As part of the KU School of Music Visiting Artist Series, Thomas Rosenkranz, pianist, will visit KU and perform Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus by Olivier Messiaen in a recital on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
November 04, 2009
Scott Murphy, KU associate professor of music theory, recently won the 2009 Emerging Scholar Award.
November 04, 2009
In the spirit of outreach across the state of Kansas, the KU School of Music has partnered with a fine arts patron to create student outreach ensembles to perform across the state.
November 04, 2009
The KU Saxophone Quartets will perform a fall recital on Thursday, November 12, 2009, at 7:30pm in Swarthout Recital Hall.
November 02, 2009
LAWRENCE-The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble will perform on Monday, November 9, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center of Kansas. There will also be a 7:00 p.m. "Informance" before the performance, in which the conductors will discuss the concert program with the audience.
November 02, 2009
KU professor of music, Robert Foster, was recently awarded a prestigious ASCAPLUS Award in the Concert Music Division.
November 02, 2009
Tami Lee Hughes, KU assistant professor of violin, will present her fall recital on Friday, November 6, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., in Swarthout Recital Hall. "Notes for Sherley" is a dedicated to Hughes' late grandmother, Sherley Jacobs. Hughes will be joined by Ellen Bottorff on piano.
October 29, 2009
LAWRENCE — Joseph Eidson, a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, recently was chosen as a semifinalist in the 2010 Vista Competition for contemporary chamber opera.
October 26, 2009
Paul Laird, professor of musicology, has a review of "Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800: The Villancico and Related Genres," edited by Tess Knighton and Alvaro Torrente (Ashgate, 2007), in the May 2009 issue of "Music & Letters," Vol. 90, No. 2. Additionally, a Broadway dictionary Laird wrote with a friend entitled "The Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical," was just released in paperback under a new title: William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird, "The A to Z of the Broadway Musical." Lanham, Toronto, and Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, 2009.
October 26, 2009
Roger Oyster, trombone and euphonium performer, and Philip Clark, trumpet player, will perform at KU in a Visiting Artist Series recital on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at 4:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
October 19, 2009
In the spirit of outreach across the state of Kansas, the KU School of Music has partnered with a fine arts patron to create student outreach ensembles. These groups will travel across the state providing master classes and performances.
October 15, 2009
Recent recipients of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, American Masterpieces: Chamber Music, the trio Allegresse with Annie Gnojek, flute, Margaret Marco, oboe and Ellen Bottorff, piano, will perform four works they commissioned as part of a world premier tour.
October 14, 2009
Ji Hye Jung was a bit wary to move to Kansas. Born in South Korea, she relocated to the United States in 2003 and had spent the past six years on the east coast. She had never even visited the Midwest until her job search. But once she made the move, she was pleasantly surprised by her experience.
October 08, 2009
KU Opera Director, Kathleen Smith Belcher, received a glowing review from the New York Times for her direction of the Metropolitan Opera's latest revival of Bartlett Sher's production of Rossini's "Barbiere di Siviglia."
October 08, 2009
The 18th annual Heart of America Marching Festival is set for Saturday, October 17, 2009, in KU's Memorial Stadium. Twenty-one high school bands from Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, as well as KU's own Marching Jayhawks, will perform.
October 08, 2009
The KU School of Music is excited to start a new tradition with the first ever indoor concert by the University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks, Sunday, November 1, 2009, at 7:30 pm, Lied Center of Kansas.
October 08, 2009
The KU Symphony Orchestra will celebrate All Hallow's Eve with a performance on Friday, October 30, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center of Kansas.
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