FOLKSONGS, RITUALS AND RITES OF PASSAGE Kicks Off Santa Clara University's Fall 2013 Music Season

SCU•PRESENTS will feature the Faculty, Staff and Students at Santa Clara University in the Fall 2013 Music Season, which includes FOLKSONGS, RITUALS AND RITES OF PASSAGE, featuring SCU faculty member, Teresa McCollough on the piano with special guest artist, Michael Boyd. SCU•PRESENTS is also proud to announce three new Music Directors and Conductors joining the Department of Music; John Kennedy, Music Director & Conductor, of the Santa Clara University Orchestra, Dr. Douglas Harris, Director of Bands, Santa Clara University Wind Symphony and Jazz Band and Scot Hanna-Weir, Music Director and Conductor, Santa Clara University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers.

Included in the fall line-up and Back by Popular Demand, the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS featuring the Santa Clara University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. This traditional holiday choral concert ushers in the Christmas season in the beautifully decorated Santa Clara Mission Church.

Tickets are on sale now, ranging from $5 to $15. Purchase on-line at www.scurpresents.org or call the Box Office at 408-554-4015.

Santa Clara University's Department of Music - 2013 Fall Music Season:

FOLKSONGS, RITUALS AND RITES OF PASSAGE

Teresa McCollough, piano

Guest Artist, Michael Boyd

Tonight, November 8, 2013 - Music Recital Hall

In honor of Igor Stravinsky's 100th Birthday year, we invite you to a program featuring his monumental opus, The Rite of Spring, arranged by the composer for two pianos. Solo and duo works by American composers Frederic Rzewski and Tobias Picker will also be included in a celebration of music that evokes the spirit of the American heartland.

PROGRAM

"Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues", from North American Ballades,

(arranged for two pianos) | Frederic Rzewski

Old and Lost Rivers | Tobias Picker

Down by the Riverside | Frederic Rzewski

Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA

John Kennedy

Music Director & Conductor

November 16, 2013 - Santa Clara Mission Church

The Santa Clara University Orchestra presents concerts throughout the academic year, which explore the vision of composers from all eras. Classic orchestral masterworks and contemporary music are performed in engaging programs, which sometimes also feature SCU students who are winners of the Music Department's annual Concerto/Aria competition.

A new addition to the SCU Music faculty, John Kennedy is resident conductor and Director of Orchestra Activities of Spoleto Festival USA and is the founding Artistic Director of two leading national new music ensembles, New York's Essential Music and Santa Fe New Music.

PROGRAM

Points of Departure | Robert Moran

Saxophone Concerto | Alexander Glazunov

Isaac Raven, soloist

"O war ich schon" from Fidelio | Ludwig van Beethoven

"Vilja's Song" from The Merry Widow | Franz Lehár

Laurel Bettis, soloist

Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) | W.A. Mozart

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY & JAZZ BAND

Dr. Douglas Harris

Director of Bands

November 20, 2013 - Music Recital Hall

The Santa Clara University Wind Symphony and Jazz Band present concerts throughout the academic year. These exciting programs feature music in the great concert band tradition, the bright energy of the Big Band era, and all the way forward to the jazz music of today.

Prior to joining the faculty at SCU, Dr. Douglas Harris served as the Director of Bands at Southern Utah University and enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a high school director in Florida.

PROGRAM

Wind Symphony

Flourish for Wind Band | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon | Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961)
Three Chorale Preludes | William P. Latham (1917-2004)
Prelude and Fugue in D Minor | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Transcribed by R. L. Moehlann
Light Cavalry Overture | Franz von Suppe (1819-1895) Edited by Loras Schissel
Allerseelen ("All Souls' Day") | Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Arranged by Albert O. Davis
Miniature Overture | Jack Stamp (b. 1964)

Jazz Band

Love For Sale | Cole Porter/arr. John Berry
Dat Dere | Bobby Timmons/arr. Erik Morales
Until I Met You (Corner Pocket) | FrEddie Green
Just Friends | John Klenner/arr. Scott Ragsdale
God Bless The Child | Arthur Herzog and Billie Holiday/arr. Sammy Nestico
Sweet Georgia Brown | Maceo Pinkard/arr. Sammy Nestico
Blues - Itis |Jeff Beal
Manteca | Dizzy Gillespie/arr. Mike Tomoro

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

Santa Clara University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers

Scot Hanna-Weir

Music Director & Conductor

December 7, 2013 - Santa Clara Mission Church

A festival of lights may have many religious and cultural meanings for people across the world. The Jewish holiday, Hanukkah and the Hindu holiday, Diwali (Tihar), both draw on the imagery of lighting lamps or candles. Culturally, many cities celebrate the change of seasons and the lengthening of days by lighting landmarks in vast and complex displays. Here at Santa Clara University, the Festival of Lights performance has marked the beginning of the holiday season for many for over a decade. The Festival of Lights program draws on many traditions, those formed here and those celebrated across the world, as it explores the changes of the seasons, a variety of holiday traditions, and many different images of light.

Dr. Scot Hanna-Weir is the Artistic Director of the Santa Clara Chorale. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara University, Dr. Hanna-Weir conducted the All Souls Choir at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC.

PROGRAM

Gaudete (1582) | Anon. arr. Scot Hanna-Weir

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (1967) | Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987)

Loveliest of Trees (1995) | James Mullholand (b. 1935)

Song of the Pines (2005) | Abbie Betinis (b. 1980)

Esti dal (1938) | Zoltan Kodály (1882-1967)

Little Innocent Lamb (1950) | Traditional Spiritual arr. Marshall Bartholomew (1185 -1978)

Betelehemu (1994) | Traditional Nigerian Via Olatunji and Wendell Whallum (1931-1987)

Magnificat (2007) | Christine Donkin (b. 1976)

O Magnum Mysterium and Ave Maria (1545) | Adrain Willaert (1490-1562)

from Quarte Motets Pour le Temps de Noël (1952) | Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

O magnum mysterium

Holie Christus natus est

A Boy Was Born (1934) | Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Ramailo Nepali Tihar (2011) | Traditional Nepali arr. Virgil Sequeira

Lux Aurumque (2001) | Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

Just Delicate Needles (Wold Premiere) | Scott Grendel (b. 1977)

Sure on the Shining Night (2005) | Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)

Silent Night | arr. Scot Hanna-Weir

SCU•PRESENTS fosters opportunities on the Santa Clara University campus to teach students, engage audiences, and promote understanding through the performing arts. Created to facilitate artistic exchange between artists in the fields of dance, music, and theatre. SCU•Presents encompasses programming from the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Department of Music, and the newly formed Arts for Social Justice, as well as select Visiting Artist Series programming. In addition to presenting the works of these university programs, SCU•Presents serves an important role within the local community by offering affordable venues to Bay Area arts organizations and educators.

For tickets, the public may call (408) 554-4015 or visit www.scupresents.org.

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