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Events

UNDERGRADUATE RECITAL – Abigail Eckert, mezzo-soprano

Sunday November 18, 2018 - 3:00p.m. to 5:00p.m.

Venue: Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church (2331 E. Adams St., Tucson, AZ 85719)

Tenth International Tucson Guitar Festival: Beeston Guitar Competition Finals

Sunday November 18, 2018 - 4:00p.m. to 6:00p.m.

Venue: Holsclaw Hall, 1017 N Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85721-0004

Choral Concert: University Singers, Honor Choir, Kantorei

Sunday November 18, 2018 - 7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m.

Venue: Crowder Hall, 1017 N Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85721-0004

“Shared Inspirations: Claude Debussy, Alice Guy Blanché and the Impressionist Painters” Leslie Amper, piano, multimedia

Monday November 19, 2018 - 7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m.

Venue: Crowder Hall, 1017 N Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85721-0004

Duo Villa-Lobos – Cecilia Palma, Cello and Edwin Guevara, Guitar

Tuesday November 20, 2018 - 7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m.

Venue: Holsclaw Hall

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music is with Kei Harada.

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The Fred Fox School of Music was honored with a special visitor who stopped by today to say hello, as he is in the Old Pueblo as guest conductor of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra this weekend. A UA alumnus, Maestro Keitaro Harada reminded us that it has been ten years since he arrived at the University of Arizona to study orchestral and opera conducting with Dr. Thomas Cockrell. We are so pleased that Harada always pays a visit to his alma mater when he is in Tucson.

For schedule and programming information on his two performances this weekend, please visit the Tucson Symphony Orchestra website:
http://tucsonsymphony.org/event/copland-goodman/…

KEITARO HARADA RETURNS TO THE TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Award Winning Maestro Will Conduct Clarinet Concerto
Aaron Copland Composed for Benny Goodman

Piazzolla, Márquez and Villa-Lobos Pieces Complete Program

(Tucson, AZ)─Keitaro Harada, who studied conducting at the University of Arizona and launched his career with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, will return to conduct Copland and Goodman, a Masterworks Series program featuring the Clarinet Concerto composed for Benny Goodman by Aaron Copland. The performances, Saturday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 18 at 2:00 p.m. are at Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Dr. The program will also feature music by Piazzolla, Márquez and Villa-Lobos. Concert Comments, one hour prior to performances, are complimentary with tickets.

Harada is a three-time recipient of The Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award (2016, 2015, 2014), Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview (2013), the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood Music Festival, and was a student of Lorin Maazel at Castleton Festival. A James E. Rogers Institute for Orchestral and Opera Conducting Fellow at the University of Arizona, Harada was a frequent guest on the TSO’s podium. He is now in his fourth season as Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops while his guest conducting career has taken him to many major orchestras around the world. He last conducted the TSO in November, 2016.

“I'm extremely excited to return to Tucson Symphony,” says Harada. “As a graduate of UofA, Tucson is my home away from home and TSO has always been an important musical family for me. We have done so many types of programs together and this trip will be a wonderful homecoming.”

Aaron Copland admitted that he never would have thought to write a concerto for clarinet, had legendary jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman not commissioned it. Copland began work on the concerto in Brazil; he spent 1947 in Rio de Janeiro as a lecturer, just after receiving the commission from Goodman. The second movement benefits from his time there: he incorporated a tune popular in Brazil at the time into the movement’s structure. Goodman performed the premiere in a 1950 radio broadcast with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The Philadelphia Orchestra gave the public premiere two weeks later. Boris Allakhverdyan, who will perform the concerto with the TSO, was appointed Principal Clarinet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2016 after previously serving as Principal Clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

The program will open with Astor Piazzolla’s Tangazo, rooted in the traditional tango form but totally symphonic in scale, content, and treatment. Arturo Márquez’s Danzon No. 4 and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Sinfonietta No.1 complete the program. Many patrons are familiar with Márquez’s Danzon No. 2, but No. 4 is a TSO premiere. Villa-Lobos’ Sinfonietta is dedicated to Mozart and is based on two of his themes. ... See MoreSee Less

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Hi Kei Harada! Sorry we missed you! Have a great concert tonight! Looks like a wonderful program, wish we attend both TSO and U of A!

The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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UA Wind Symphony & UA Symphonic Band
Featuring faculty artist Jason Carder, trumpet
Tuesday, November 27, 7:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $Free

Program:

WIND SYMPHONY
Chad Shoopman, conductor

Ralph Vaughn Williams
Flourish for Wind Band

Clifton Williams
Dramatic Essay for Solo B-flat Trumpet and Band

Bruce Broughton
Silverado
arr. Randol Bass

Frank Simon
Here Comes The Band

SYMPHONIC BAND
Yudai Ueda, conductor
Matthew Williams, guest conductor

Cait Nishimura
Chasing Sunlight

Wolfgang A. Mozart
Ave Verum Corpus
arr. Barabara Buehlman

Clifton Williams
Symphonic Dance No. 3 “Fiesta”

Aaron Copland
Excerpts from Appalachian Spring
arr. Robert Longfield

Henry Fillmore
Circus Bee
arr. Calvin Custer

Lin-Manuel Miranda
“My Shot” from Hamilton
arr. Michael Brown

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This Sunday in Crowder Hall!

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UA Opera Theater: “La hija de Rappaccini”

UA Opera Theater: “La hija de Rappaccini” by Daniel Catán
Saturday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Environment and Natural Resources Building (ENRN)
at the University of Arizona
1064 E Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85719
Northeast corner of Park and 6th St.

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Our nationally and internationally recognized faculty members are dedicated to the development of your talents. They are equally at home in the classroom, studio, or on the performance stage. Along with one-on-one teaching and mentoring, our performance faculty members regularly appear in solo recitals and/or as guest artists with major opera companies, symphony orchestras, chamber groups, and many other ensembles. In addition, our academic faculty members author books that are published by the finest scholarly publishing houses, write articles that appear in major music journals, and regularly present papers and other scholarly lectures at significant international conferences.

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