Resinosa Ensemble Colby College Online

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Thursday, February 20th at 7:30 pm

Made in Maine: Reflections in Song

Resinosa Ensemble

Colby College Online

Music in the Museum Online concert series

Made in Maine: Reflections in Song features carefully chosen songs from the Resinosa Ensemble commissioned premieres: selections from Daniel Sonenberg’s six song cycle Beauty is Not Enough, with text by Edna St. Vincent Millay; selections from John Newell’s Night Songs with poems by Sara Teasdale; the final movement of Nancy Gunn’s Spiresongs, poems by Elizabeth Spires; and selections from Richard Nelson’s A Forest of Glass, a Kaleidoscope, a Dream, featuring poems by Ellen Taylor

Concert funded in part by the Hazel Hoyt Witherell Memorial Concert Fund

Admission for this online concert is free. 

For the event link and more information please visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/242597807373552

Spanish guitar in the 1860’s: solos and canciones

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Tuesday, September 24th, 2019, at noon

Music in the Museum Series – Colby College

Spanish guitar in the 1860’s: solos and canciones

Colby Museum of Art

The Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz

 Waterville, me

Timothy Burris, guitar, with special guest Joëlle Morris, mezzo-soprano.

This program is something of an experiment, bringing the performance-practice methodologies of early music to bear on a relatively recent body of music. The earliest piece on the program was published in 1860, or 159 years in the past. In fairness, had early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch (1858 – 1940) included music of early- to mid-period Haydn on one of his programs, the gap in time would have been about the same.

This program consists of the music of one decade(the 1860’s) in one country (Spain) composed for one instrument (the guitar). This decade was selected because the guitar used in the concert is a copy of an instrument built in 1864 by Antonio de Torres Jurado (and numbered FE17, or ‘First Epoch 17’). Guitar solos include works by Julián Arcas, Jaume Bosch (born in Barcelona, his German last name notwithstanding), Antonio Cano, and José Viñas; songs by Tomas Damas round out the program.

https://www.colby.edu/museum/2019/07/02/music-in-the-museum-tim-burris-and-joelle-morris/

Music of Surrealism

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Thursday, April 11th, 2019, at noon

Music of Surrealism

Music in the Museum Colby Concert Series 

Colby College Museum of Art

5600 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, Maine 

Joëlle Morris and pianist Bridget Convey will explore in music the revolutionary movement of 1920’s surrealism; aimed to highlight elements of surprise, the absurd, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur, through the leaders of the Surrealism movement such as artists Salvador Dali, René Magritte, writers Jean Cocteau, André Breton and others.  Featured will be compositions by Kurt Weill, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honnegger and Olivier Messiaen. Concert presented both in French and in English.
Free to the public

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Music at Colby Series – I Am Already Big

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Saturday, April 21, 2018, 7:30 p.m.

Christ lag in Todesbanden by J.S.Bach and Ach wo nun hin by Christoph Graupner –  Soloist

Lorimer Chapel,  Colby College, Waterville, Maine

Music at Colby Series – I Am Already Big

Colby College Collegium offers a concert of ‘firsts.’ Whether they be first attempts at choral writing by notable composers, or first choral works that define particular styles, I Am Already Big is a survey of the unique origins of choral music. Juxtaposed with audio samples of each selected composers’ final works, we hope the audience will be interested to see where the journey begins and ends. Sometimes, it surprises… Select works include Bach’s first church cantata, BWV 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden, and Christoph Graupner’s 1709 cantata, Ach wo nun hin, performed from a modern edition by Dr. Marius Bahnean, Director of Choral Activities at Tennessee Wesleyan University. Dr. Bahnean will also give a pre-concert lecture on the importance of Graupner as an originator. Other featured works include first choral compositions by Mozart, Arvo Pärt, Dominick Argento, and selections of first works from other celebrated composers of today.

http://www.colby.edu/musicdept/2017-18-concert-season-and-information/