Blair Calendar of Events

BLAIR CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2009 FALL / 2010 SPRING

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - except where noted in individual listings.
FREE PARKING FOR ALL LISTED EVENTS IN SOUTH GARAGE - adjacent to the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital on Children's Way
Complimentary Valet Parking for indicated events - provided by Phi Mu Alpha music fraternity

For more information about Blair Events - Call the main office at 615-322-7651

(updated January 25, 2010)

SEPTEMBER 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES presents
John Johns, guitar
A Plucked String Event featuring duets with Blair's Marian Shaffer, harp and Amy Dorfman, harpsichord.
Even though the guitar, harp and harpsichord have their individual sounds and tone colors, they share one thing in common - their strings are plucked by either fingers or quills. When played in combination, they produce color sonorities. The program features Fantasia para un gentilhomme by the great Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, Sonata in C Major, BWV 529 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata in A Major by Antonio Vivaldi, and the Introduction and Fandango by Luigi Boccherini. Johns also presents a set of his own solo guitar transcriptions of Bach, Mendelssohn and Gluck.
Sponsored by Judy and Steve Turner
Complimentary Valet Parking

Sunday, September 13, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
4:00 p.m.
Blair presents MUSIC ON FILM
Introduced by John Kochanowski
Back for its second year, the Music on Film series presents large-format screenings of music in performance, with 5.1 surround-sound technology. John Kochanowski, violist for the Blair Strinq Quartet, leads the pre-film discussion that will introduce his selection for this fall's presentation: a focus on chamber music featuring Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, by Beethoven.
Complimentary Valet Parking

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT ORCHESTRA
Robin Fountain, conductor
Verdi - La Forza del Destino Overture
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
VANDERBILT CONCERT WINDS
Thomas Verrier, conductor
"American Standards - works for the wind band from yesterday and today"

Monday, September 21, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
Karen Clarke, violin
Mark Wait, piano
An Evening of Duo Sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms
Mozart - Sonata in A Major, K. 526
Beethoven - Sonata in A minor, Op. 23
Brahms - Sonata in A Major

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m
GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Nancy Buck, viola

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m Discussion
8:30 p.m. Performance
BLAIR NIGHTCAP SERIES
Guest Artist Peter Sheppard Skærved
Composer and Blair faculty member Michael Alec Rose
The Violin Now!
Blair's Nightcap format is the perfect vehicle for this evening's guest artist, world-class violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved, who will explore in a lecture/demonstration style what it is to be a violinist today, drawing on his unique repertoire of rare works from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the many works written for him. A dedicatee of over 200 works (including several by Blair's Michael Alec Rose, one of which is featured this evening), Peter is the only living violinist to have been invited to play on Paganini's, Viotti's and Kreisler's violins. Leader of the acclaimed Kreutzer Quartet, Fellow of Performance Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Peter also directs a series of concerts at the world's oldest music hall, Wiltons Music Hall, in London. This year Peter is curating an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, holding a residency at the British Museum, and proudly collaborating with Blair School on the third exchange program with the Royal Academy of Music, which this Blair Nightcap Series concert launches. He plays Joseph Joachim's 1698 Stradivari.
Sponsored by Nissan North America Inc.
Complimentary Valet Parking

Friday, September 25, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
Agnes Wan, piano
A collection of shorter compositions by Scarlatti, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Schumann, Schubert, and contemporary female composer Pui-Shan Cheung

Sunday, September 27, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
2:00 p.m.
A DULCIMER AFTERNOON
The Dulcimer Concert sponsored by the David Schnaufer Fund
Featuring this year's guest artist, contemporary mountain dulcimer pioneer Rob Brereton, with Blair faculty members Sandy Conatser, Zada Law and Lee Rowe.

OCTOBER 2009

Thursday, October 8, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT WIND SYMPHONY
Thomas Verrier, conductor
VANDERBILT STRING ORCHESTRA
Robin Fountain, Conductor
with guest conductor
Michel Camatte, Directeur Conservatoire Darius Milhaud
"Vive La France!" Program to include Debussy's Danse Sacree et Profane and Milhaud's Suite Francais
Marian Shaffer, soloist, harp

Friday, October 9, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
NASHVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Blair's resident professional jazz ensemble
Jim Williamson, Director
LATIN NIGHT
TICKETS - SOLD AT THE DOOR
All general admission seating
$20 regular adult; $15 VU staff and faculty and seniors; $10 students with ID;
$5 Vanderbilt Students

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT SYMPHONIC CHOIR
Fall Concert
David Childs, director

Sunday, October 11, 2009
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Choral Rehearsal Hall
4:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
CARL SMITH
German Baroque Music for Harpsichord
Music by Froeberger, Bohm, Weckmann, Scheidemann, and Bach

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m. Discussion and Performance
BLAIR NIGHTCAP SERIES presents
Works by Blair Faculty Composers
Works by Blair Faculty Composers Michael Slayton, Michael Rose, Stan Link, and Daniel Bernard Roumain featuring the Blair String Quartet
Sponsored by Nissan North America Inc.
Complimentary Valet Parking

Friday, October 16, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES presents
Craig Nies, solo piano
The Complete 48 Preludes and Fugues: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Continuing his Bach series, pianist Craig Nies will include Ravel's mesmerizing Ondine and electric Alborada del gracioso, Chopin's second Impromptu, and Rachmaninoff's powerful second sonata.
Sponsored by The Martin Foundation
Complimentary Valet Parking

Sunday, October 18, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
2:00 p.m.
BLAIR BRASS CHAMBER ENSEMBLES
Fall Concert

Sunday, October 18, 2009
Westminster Presbyterian Church
3900 West End Avenue
4:00 p.m.
COLLEGIUM VOCALE
David Childs, director
Music by: Benjamin Britten, Tarik O'Regan, Charles Villiers Stanford, et al

Monday, October 19, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
7:30 p.m.
GUEST MASTERCLASS/RECITAL
James Zimmermann, clarinet
Principal clarinetist for the Nashville Symphony
Melissa Rose, piano

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Rooom 2192, Blair School of Music
4:00 p.m.
LECTURE by Carl Smith, Senior Lecturer of Theory and Composition, Organ and Harpsichord
"What's in a Name?: Michelangelo's Signatures"

Monday, October 26, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
Jared Hauser, oboe
Leslie Norton, horn
Melissa Rose, piano

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT ORCHESTRA
Robin Fountain, conductor
Program includes Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich
VANDERBILT WIND SYMPHONY
Thomas Verrier, conductor
with the Blair Women's Choir, David Childs, director
Program includes the Nashville premiere of MacBeth Fantasy by Blair faculty composer, Michael Kurek.

Friday, October 30, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES presents
THE BLAIR STRING QUARTET CELEBRATES MENDELSSOHN
Christian Teal, violin; Cornelia Heard, violin; John Kochanowski, viola; Felix Wang, cello
With guest artists The Ceruti Quartet
The Blair String Quartet brings together two of the finest quartets for a celebration the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn. The Ceruti Quartet will join the Blair for a performance of the incredible Octet, Op.20, composed when Mendelssohn was sixteen years old, but considered one of the great works in musical history. The Ceruti Quartet, currently in residence at the University of Memphis, will perform another short Mendelssohn work, the Quartet, Op. 81, as well as the Samuel Barber String Quartet with its famous " Molto adagio" movement. The program opens with Beethoven's exciting Quartet in C Minor, Op.18, No.4.
Sponsored by Delphine and Ken Roberts in honor of Norma Gandy, Operations Officer, Blair School of Music
Complimentary Valet Parking

NOVEMBER 2009

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Ingram Hall 2:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CONCERT CHOIR
David Binns Williams, director
The oldest performing group on campus performs choral works of all genres.

Monday, November 2, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m. Discussion
8:30 p.m. Performance
BLAIR NIGHTCAP
Three by Three: Flute and Friends
When is three not a crowd?
When it's a trio of trios!
Jane Kirchner and faculty friends Marian Shaffer, Cynthia Estill, Kathryn Plummer, and Craig Nies, along with exceptional harp student Frances Cobb, team up to present a program of three charming, highly varied works. Enjoy a trio version of Debussy's beloved Afternoon of a Faun for flute and two harps; a rarely programmed Beethoven opus for flute, bassoon, and piano; and the southern premiere of an imaginative 21st-century piece for flute, harp, and viola by American composer Libby Larsen. The pre-concert lecture by faculty composer/theorist Michael Kurek will both inform and delight.
Sponsored by Nissan North America Inc.
Complimentary Valet Parking

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR CHAMBER CHOIR
David Childs, director

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
Blair Composers Forum
Michael Kurek, director
Blair student musicians perform works written by their peers.

Friday, November 6, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
GUEST ARTIST RECITAL
Tony Arnold, soprano
Movses Pogossian, violin
Clarity, depth, imagination, and vocal beauty mark the performances of soprano Tony Arnold, who is internationally recognized for her interpretation of the contemporary repertoire. In 2001 she became the first vocalist ever to win the prestigious Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition, and later that year took top honors at the McMahon International Music Competition. Since those triumphs she has been widely sought as both a concert and recording artist. For her Blair recital, she and violin accompanist Movses Pogossian will perform Gyorgy Kurtag's 1987 "Kafka Fragments," a bracing distillation of ten "normal" songs taken largely from Franz Kafka's "Blue Octavo Notebooks," concentrated into an intense series of emotional epigrams, composed by a giant of contemporary music.
Mr. Pogossian is Professor of Violin at UCLA, and is Artistic Director of the new Dilijan Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall in Los Angeles.

Monday, November 9, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
PERCUSSION VORTEX
Michael Holland, director
American premiere of Jeffery Briggs' Ecliptic for marimba quartet; and the whimsical music of Eric Stokes using springs, broom handles, and coffee cans! Eric Stokes' 1980 Spring Song, composed on a commission from New Music America, combines musical genius with childlike curiosity. PLUS - audience members will get one more chance to see Mary Ellen Childs' CLICK. The piece for three stick-wielding performers that brought the house down in the spring 2009 Concert Series is back by popular demand for this fall's program.

Friday, November 13, 2009
Ingram Hall
6:45 p.m. The opening night pre-show talk with musicologist Melanie Lowe as listed in the printed calendar has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvience.
8:00 p.m. Performance
VANDERBILT OPERA THEATRE and VANDERBILT ORCHESTRA present
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gayle Shay, director
Robin Fountain, music director
Fully staged, orchestrated and costumed. Sung in English.
Sponsored by An Anonymous Friend of the Blair School
Complimentary Valet Parking
TICKETED EVENT
THIS EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE BUT TICKETS ARE REQUIRED
Tickets are available at the Blair Main Office Front Desk beginning October 15
Remaining tickets will be available at the box office beginning one hour prior to performance
Please call 322-7651 for information

Saturday, November 14, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
Rose Viola Sonatas
Blair String Quartet violist John Kochanowski performs works written by composer Michael Alec Rose.

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Ingram Hall
2:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT OPERA THEATRE and VANDERBILT ORCHESTRA present
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gayle Shay, director
Robin Fountain, music director
Fully staged, orchestrated and costumed. Sung in English.
Sponsored by An Anonymous Friend of the Blair School
Complimentary Valet Parking
TICKETED EVENT
THIS EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE BUT TICKETS ARE REQUIRED
Tickets are available at the Blair Main Office Front Desk beginning October 15
Remaining tickets will be available at the box office beginning one hour prior to performance
Please call 322-7651 for information

Monday, November 16, 2009
Blair Room 2190
Noon to 2:00 p.m.
GUEST ARTIST MASTER CLASS
Internationally renowned bassoonist Bill Ludwig,
Professor of Bassoon, Indiana University

Monday, November 16, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES presents
The Blair Brass Quintet
Allan Cox, trumpet; Pat Kunkee, trumpet; Leslie Norton; horn; Gilbert Long, tuba; Lawrence Borden, trombone
Complimentary Valet Parking

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PERFORMANCE DATE HAS CHANGED
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT STEEL DRUM ENSEMBLES
Mat Britain, director

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
7:30 p.m.
FACULTY RECTIAL
An Evening of Jazz with members of the Blair jazz faculty
Sponsored by Susan and Frank Genovese

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT CONCERT WINDS
Thomas Verrier, conductor

Sunday, November 22, 2009
Ingram Hall
2:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT COMMUNITY CHORUS
David Binns Williams, director
A potpourri of choral favorites performed just in time for Thanksgiving.

DECEMBER 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR HARP ENSEMBLE
Marian Shaffer, director

Saturday, December 5, 2009
Frist Museum of Visual Arts
919 Broadway - Downtown, Nashville
2:30 p.m.
BLAIR SUZUKI VIOLIN PERFORMING GROUP
Carol Smith, director
BLAIR CHILDREN'S CELLO CHOIR
HOLIDAY PROGRAMS
Kirsten Cassel Greer and Anne Hall Williams, co-directors

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PERFORMANCE TIME HAS CHANGED
SANKOFA - Vanderbilt's African Drum and Dance Ensemble
Kwame Ahima, director

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
And
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
6:00 p.m.
BLAIR PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP RECITAL
Blair's finest pre-college students featured in a variety of solo works for piano, strings, woodwinds, brass and voice.

Thursday, December 10, 2009
Choral Rehearsal Hall
8:00 p.m.
Small Jazz Ensemble Recital (aka Small Jazz Combo)
Roger Spencer, instructor

Friday, December 11, 2009
Ingram Hall
7:30 p.m.
BLAIR CHILDREN'S CHORUS HOLIDAY CONCERT
Hazel Somerville, artistic director and conductor
Coni Ely Guerin, Young Singer's director
Featuring the Blair Children's Concert Choir, Young Men's Chorus, Choristers, Nashville Boyhoir at Blair and Young Singers of Blair.

Saturday, December 12, 2009
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
5:00 p.m.
BLAIR PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP RECITAL
Blair's finest pre-college students featured in a variety of solo works for piano, strings, woodwinds, brass and voice.

Saturday, December 12, 2009
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR BIG BAND ORCHESTRA
Billy Adair, director
With the
NASHVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Jim Williamson, Director
HOLIDAY JAZZ
TICKETS - SOLD AT THE DOOR
$20 regular adult; $15 VU Staff and faculty and seniors; $10 students with ID;
FREE FOR VANDERBILT STUDENTS
Sponsored by Susan and Frank Genovese

Monday, December 14, 2009
Ingram Hall
7:30 p.m.
CURB YOUTH SYMPHONY
WINTER CONCERT
Carol Nies, director

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Ingram Hall
7:30 p.m.
NASHVILLE YOUTH REPERTORY ORCHESTRA
Sally McFadden, director
SUZUKI READING ORCHESTRA
YOUTH STRINGS ORCHESTRA
BEGINNING READING ORCHESTRA
Celeste Tuten, director

JANUARY 2010

Sunday, January 17, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
4:00 p.m.
MUSIC ON FILM
This popular film and discussion series features Blair School dean Mark Wait, who will introduce Two Hands - a 2006 Academy Award-nominated documentary about the extraordinary artistry and human triumph of the great pianist Leon Fleisher, who has overcome paralysis of his left hand to regain mastery of the two-hand piano repertoire. This documentary, written and directed by Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect), celebrated with wide critical acclaim and aired on HBO television, was inspired by the internationally hailed 2004 recording by Fleisher, entitled "Two Hands." Mr. Fleisher will visit the Blair School in February to perform with his wife, pianist Katherine Jacobson Fleisher, and to conduct an open rehearsal with the Blair String Quartet. The program also includes film from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, featuring Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58, with Maurizio Pollini (pianist) and Claudio Abbado (conductor).
Sponsored by Dolby Laboratories

Thursday, January 21, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m. - Discussion with Michael Alec Rose
8:30 p.m. - Concert
BLAIR NIGHTCAP SERIES
THE CHARMED CIRCLE OF BRAHMS
Kathryn Plummer and pianist Karen Ann Krieger will present some undeservedly obscure gems of the Romantic viola repertoire, all by composers who were deeply influenced by Brahms's gorgeous and magisterial sound. At last, dear Johannes himself will arrive to cap the Nightcap with his sweeping Sonatensatz. Composer and Blair faculty member Michael Alec Rose leads the pre-concert discussion.
Sponsored by Nissan North America, Inc.
This event will be recorded live for later broadcast on WNPT-2 public television

Sunday, January 24, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
4:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
Christian Teal, violin
Jennifer McGuire, piano
World Premiere by Joshua McGuire
Teal and McGuire join forces in a concert that features works by Beethoven, Bartok, Saint-Saens and a premiere of Two Poems by Walt Whitman for Violin, Piano, and Narrator by Joshua McGuire.
Blair Faculty member Michael Hime narrates the Whitman works.
The program includes Sonata in D Major, Op. 12, No.1 by Beethoven, and Bela Bartok's passionate Second Sonata for Violin and Piano. This work was dedicated to and premiered by virtuoso woman violinist Jelly d'Aranyi in 1923 in London. In 1885, Camille Saint-Saens composed his brilliant First Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.75.

Monday, January 25, 2010
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
Jared Hauser, oboe
Laura Hauser, bassoon
Melissa Rose, piano
An all-French program including Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano; Gabriel Grovlez's Sarabande et Allegro, Henri Duttileux's Sonate for oboe and Piano and Emille Paladilhe's Solo for Oboe.

Friday, January 29, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES - BLAIR VOICES
"Mozart Unplugged"
Amy Jarman, soprano
Jonathan Retzlaff, baritone
Jennifer McGuire, piano
Did you miss Vanderbilt Opera Theatre's fall production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro? Well you're in luck! Come and enjoy highlights from the opera, including the brilliant Act II finale, with baritone Jonathan Retzlaff and soprano Amy Jarman singing the roles of the Count and Countess Almaviva. Fully-costumed and staged. Sung in English with Jennifer McGuire at the keyboard.

Sunday, January 31, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
4:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
An Afternoon with J. S. Bach at the Keyboard
Agnes Wan-Patterson, piano
Program includes Bach's English Suite No. 2 in A minor and Partita No. 6 in E minor

FEBRUARY 2010

Thursday, February 4, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT CONCERT WINDS
Thomas Verrier, conductor
Musical Inventions - music that celebrates human creativity and ingenuity

Saturday, February 6, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
THE FLEISHER DUO
LEON FLEISHER
KATHERINE JACOBSON FLEISHER
The esteemed pianist Leon Fleisher performs with wife Katherine Jacobson Fleisher in a combined solo- and duo-piano recital

Sunday, February 7, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
A VERY SPECIAL EVENING WITH
MAESTRO LEON FLEISHER CONDUCTING THE VANDERBILT ORCHESTRA
Mr. Fleisher conducts a Mozart concerto with the Orchestra in a rare Nashville visit

Monday, February 8, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m. Discussion with Jim Lovensheimer
8:30 p.m. Performance
BLAIR NIGHTCAP SERIES
Music for soprano, horn, and piano.
Join Gayle Shay, soprano, Leslie Norton, horn, and Melissa Rose, piano for an evening of works by Richard Strauss, Cooke, Sargon, Silverman, and Kern.
Musicologist Jim Lovensheimer leads the pre-concert discussion.
Sponsored by Nissan North America, Inc.
This event will be recorded live for later broadcast on WNPT-2 public television.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Ingram Hall
7:00 p.m.
OPEN REHEARSAL WITH PIANIST LEON FLEISHER
Mr. Fleisher joins the Blair String Quartet for an open rehearsal of the Piano Quintet by Brahms.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
The Music of John Marvin
Oboist Roger Wiesmeyer pulls his friends together to perform three works by composer John Marvin: Trio for 2 oboes and English horn, with Wiesmeyer on English horn and Jared Hauser and Laura Anne Ross on oboes; Woodwind Quintet, with Carolyn Treybig, flute; Lee Levine, clarinet; Beth Beeson, horn; Gil Perel, bassoon; and Woodwind Octet with Keith Sorrels, oboe, Cassandra Lee and Todd Waldecker, clarinets; Dawn Hartley and Gil Perel, bassoons; and Beth Beeson and Hunter Sholar, horns.

Thursday, February 11, 2010 - TICKETED EVENT
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
ALIAS Winter Concert
ALIAS Chamber Ensemble is Blair's newest "Performance Partner"
Deborah Kavasch The Fox and the Grapes for english horn and soprano (with Ms. Kavasch singing) (2006)
Anton Arensky String Quartet in a minor, Opus 35 (1894)
Bianca Maria Meda Cari Musici for soprano, 2 violins and continuo (1690)
Belinda Reynolds Envision for baroque string quartet (2006)
Peter Schickele String Quartet No. 1 American Dreams
All proceeds will benefit Exchange Club Family Center, an organization founded to help prevent child abuse and neglect.
For tickets and information, visit www.aliasmusic.org

Friday, February 12, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT SYMPHONIC CHOIR
BLAIR CHAMBER CHOIR
COLLEGIUM VOCALE
Combined Choral Concert
David Childs, director
This combined ensemble presents various works including: Eric Whitacre's She Weeps Over Rahoon, David Brunner's All I Was Doing Was Breathing, and Make Our Garden Grow from "Candide" by Bernstein.

Monday, February 15, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
THE ATLANTIC ENSEMBLE
Wei Tsun Chang, violin
Seanad Chang, viola
Kirsten Cassel, cello
The trio performs with guest artists Cassie Lee, clarinet, and Jennifer McGuire, piano to feature a world premiere of a piano quartet written for the ensemble by Charles Ruggiero, as well as the composer's clarinet trio Collage 1912. Aaron Copland's Piano Quartet rounds out the program.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - TICKETED EVENT
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
THE NASHVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA celebrates FAT TUESDAY!
Jim Williamson, Director
The NJO swings in Mardi Gras style with jazz stylings that will make sure you know "what it means to miss New Orleans."
TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR
TICKET INFORMATION TBA

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
7:00 p.m.
STUDENT COMPOSERS FORUM
Music written by Blair student composers, performed by their colleagues.

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
GUEST ARTIST
Ben Bolt, Guitar
www.benboltguitar.com

Friday, February 19, 2010 - TICKETED EVENT
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
THE BLAIR COMMISSIONS: MUSIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Presents A World Premiere
GATES OF SILENCE by Susan Botti
Written for and performed by The Blakemore Trio
Carolyn Huebl, violin; Felix Wang, cello; Amy Dorfman, piano
with Susan Botti, soprano
Based on the poetry of National Book Award Finalist Linda Gregerson.
Ms. Gregerson and Ms. Botti will participate in a pre-concert discussion with Mark Wait at 7:15 p.m. in Ingram Hall, prior to the performance.

THIS EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE BUT TICKETS ARE REQUIRED.
Tickets available at the Blair Main Desk. Please call 615-322-7651 for more information.
The Blair Commissions Series is sponsored by the James Stephen Turner Family Charitable Foundation.

Sunday, February 21, 2010
Ingram Hall
2:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT COMMUNITY CHORUS
David Binns Williams, director
The VCC celebrates 10 years in existence with a collection of our favorite pieces from over 30 concerts.

Monday, February 22, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
GUEST ARTISTS
West Point Academy Wind Quintet
Blair Alumna ('90) Julie Williams Ditzel fronts the Academy Wind Quintet
from West Point, New York, presenting a varied and colorful program of
virtuoso chamber music for winds. Their repertoire ranges from the late
eighteenth century courts of Europe to the contemporary masters of the
twentieth century and features arrangements from quintet members.
The program for this concert includes works by Mozart, Percy Grainger, Derek
Bourgeois, and Paquito D'Rivera.

Monday, February 22, 2010
MASTER CLASSES
With members of the West Point Academy Wind Quintet
The public is invited to observe - please call 322-7651
Flute Master Class with Julie Williams Ditzel, Room 2190, 4-6 p.m.
Oboe Master Class and Reed-Making with James Mullins, Room 2192, 4-6 p.m.
Clarinet Repair Workshop with John Parrette, Room 2109, 4-6 p.m.
Bassoon Master Class with Christian Eberle, Room 1167, 4-6 p.m.
Horn Master Class with Troy Messner, Instrumental Rehearsal Hall, 4-6 p.m.

Friday, February 26, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
BMI COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE CONCERT
Celebrating the Music of Joseph Schwantner
The Vanderbilt Orchestra and Vanderbilt Winds
Robin Fountain and Thomas Verrier, conductors
The program includes Schwantner's Percussion Concerto, featuring guest percussionist Joseph Gramley, Aftertones of Infinity and Sparrows, sung by Amy Jarman, soprano, with a contemporary ensemble.
Sponsored by BMI

Saturday, February 27, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
GUEST ARTIST
Julie Simson, mezzo-soprano
Melissa Rose, piano
A JOURNEY OF LOVE
Joining our artist series is Mezzo-Soprano Julie Simson and pianist Melissa Rose with an art song recital entitled The Journey of Love, featuring two renowned song cycles, the Berlioz' Nuits d'ete, and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Mahler. These cycles were set both for piano and orchestra by the composers and feature the rich warm attributes of the mezzo-soprano voice. Also rarely heard is the classical cantata Arianna a Naxos by Josef Haydn. Ending the program will be a set of songs written by a living American composer, Richard Faith that were written especially for Ms. Simson.

MARCH 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010
Ingram Hall
7:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
A CHOPIN CELEBRATION
Pianist Craig Nies enlists the talents of student pianists to perform in celebration of the great piano composer's 200th birthday year.
Sponsored by The Martin Foundation

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m. Discussion with Cynthia Cyrus
8:30 p.m. Performance
THE BLAIR NIGHTCAP SERIES
If My Complaints Could Passions Move: An Evening with John Dowland
Amy Jarman, soprano
Joshua McGuire, guitar
Two of Blair's accomplished performers explore the works of the Elizabethan songwriter who is enjoying a resurgence of popularity in the 21st century.
Musicologist Cynthia Cyrus opens the evening with a discussion of "Dowland: The Business and Art of Making Music"
Sponsored by Nissan North America, Inc.
This event is recorded live for later broadcast on WNPT-2 public television

Monday, March 15, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
THE BLAIR WOODWIND QUINTET
Jane Kirchner, flute; Jared Hauser, oboe; Cassandra Lee, clarinet; Cynthia
Estill, bassoon; Leslie Norton, horn
The WW5 cooks up an All-American program of delights, featuring Quintet No.
3 by contemporary composer David Maslanka, Partita by early 20th century
composer Irving Fine, and Three Preludes by Broadway icon George Gershwin.
Sponsored by the Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc.

Friday, March 19, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
PIANO FACULTY CONCERT
Roland Schneller, Karen Krieger, Jama Reagan, Melissa Rose, Valerie Middleton, Agnes Wan-Patterson, Elizabeth Eckert, Chihee Hwang, Patsy Wade, Maureen May and Mark Wait
The Blair piano faculty teams up to present a larger-than-life program of solo, duo-piano, and four-hand works by Barber, Debussy and Schumann.

Sunday, March 21, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
5:00 p.m.
FACULTY RECITAL
Jessica Blackwell, violin

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
MASTER CLASS
With Guest Artist Andrew Jennings, violin

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
GUEST ARTIST
Andrew Jennings, Violin
Professor of Violin, University of Michigan, Oberlin, and Tanglewood Institute
The Rochberg Caprices for Solo Violin, with a slide presentation

Friday, March 26, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT ORCHESTRA
Robin Fountain, conductor
Program includes Symphony No. 9, by Franz Schubert
VANDERBILT WIND SYMPHONY
Thomas Verrier, conductor
Program includes major works for the American wind ensemble

Saturday, March 27, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
THE BLAIR STUDENT SHOWCASE
Selected by audition, the student performers on this annual program demonstrate their prodigious talents and dedication to their art.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
Special Concert Event
Musicians of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Vanderbilt Orchestra perform side-by-side in an all-Mozart program, which includes Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314; and Symphony No. 38 in D, "Prague", K. 504.
Roger Wiesmeyer, oboe
Dean Whiteside, conductor
This event is benefit concert for the Shade Tree Family Clinic, Nashville. Donations at the door are recommended, but not required.

APRIL 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
7:00 p.m.
BLAIR HARP ENSEMBLE
Marian Shaffer, director
Frances Cobb, Emily Green, Melissa Woo and Tori Bates

Sunday, April 4, 2010
Ingram Hall
7:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT STEEL DRUMS ENSEMBLE
Mat Britain, director

Monday, April 5, 2010
Ingram Hall
7:00 p.m.
SANKOFA - Vanderbilt's African drumming and dance ensemble
Kwame Ahima , director

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
4:30 p.m.
MASTER CLASS
Nancy Ambrose King, oboe
Professor of Oboe, University of Michigan

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR STUDENT COMPOSER FORUM
Works by Blair student composers performed by their colleagues

Friday, April 9, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
THE BLAIR STRING QUARTET
Christian Teal, Cornelia Heard, John Kochanowski, Felix Wang
The Quartet presents a program of three important works, one each from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries: Quartet in C Major, Op.74, No.1(1793), by Joseph Haydn; Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (1827) by Beethoven, and Quartet No.13 in B Flat Minor, Op.138 (1970) by Dmitri Shostakovitch.
Brilliant and profound, these three works exemplify the skill and artistry of Blair's celebrated chamber ensemble in a scintillating recital.
Sponsored in memory of Wilma Ward.

Saturday, April 10, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
THE APPALACHIAN CELEBRATION
This annual hoe-down, back once again with surprise guest artists, offers an array of artists from across the folk instrument spectrum.

Sunday, April 11, 2010
Ingram Hall
2:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT CONCERT CHOIR
David Binns Williams, director
The oldest performing group on campus performs choral gems of all genres.

Monday, April 12, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
SPECIAL CONCERT EVENT
Blair Percusson VORTEX
Michael Holland, director

SPECIAL GUESTS: Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Tracy Silverman,
Brad 'Kali' Bowden
Witness a dazzling display of percussion, dance, film, and groove!
Blair Percussion VORTEX welcomes guest violinists DBR (Daniel Bernard Roumain) and Tracy Silverman, electronica/remix artist Brad 'Kali' Bowden, choreographer Kelvin Amburgey with the Shards Dance Project, and the Hart String Quartet.
Special feature: The 1906 French comic sci-fi film Les Invisibles! Experience early film magic when an invisibility potion is stolen and an alchemist turns people into dancing vegetables! Produced by Pathé Freres and directed by Gaston Velle, accompanied by VORTEX. Plus, Silvestre Revueltas' classic Sensemaya, music for the ritual killing of a snake, performed and reinterpreted by groove-master Kali, DBR, Tracy Silverman, and VORTEX, with an amplified Hart String Quartet. Enter the VORTEX and get your groove on!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT ORCHESTRA
Robin Fountain, conductor
Featuring winners of the 2009 Blair Student Concerto Competition

Thursday, April 15, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
THE BLAIR BIG BAND
Billy Adair, director
Blair Big Band
Vanderbilt's student big band orchestra swings into a spring concert
Co-sponsored by Susan and Frank Genovese, and Melissa and Scot Hollmann

Friday, April 16, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
THE BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES
CRAIG NIES, solo piano
The Complete 48 Preludes and Fugues: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Piano master Nies presents the sixth concert in his Bach performance series. The program includes Franz Liszt's Sonata in b minor and and Beethoven's brilliant Eroica Variations, Opus 35.
Sponsored by The Martin Foundation

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
BLAIR SYMPHONIC and CONCERT CHOIRS
David Childs, director
Requiem by David N. Childs

Sunday, April 18, 2010
4:00 p.m.
COLLEGIUM VOCALE
David Childs, director
Covenant Presbyterian Church
33 Burton Hills Blvd
Nashville
Music from various composers

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Benton Chapel, Vanderbilt University
7:00 p.m.
BLAIR BRASS ENSEMBLES CONCERT
Blair Trumpet Ensemble, BONZ, Blair student brass quintets and Blair Brass Choir

Sunday, April 25, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
2:30 p.m.
BLAIR SUZUKI VIOLIN PERFORMING GROUP CONCERT
Carol Smith, director

BLAIR CHILDREN'S CELLO CHOIR CONCERT
Kirsten Cassell Greer and Anne Hall Williams, co-directors

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
DORFMAN/WAIT PIANO DUO
Amy Dorfman and Mark Wait

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 and Thursday, April 29, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
6:00 p.m.
BLAIR PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP RECITAL
Blair's finest pre-college students featured in a variety of solo works for piano, strings, woodwinds, brass and voice

Friday, April 30, 2010 - TICKETED EVENT
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m.
NASHVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Jim Williamson, director
The FIFTH annual Writers Night
Music by well-known and -loved local jazz composers performed by JNO and friends
TICKETS: On sale at the door

MAY 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
5:30 p.m.
BLAIR PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP RECITAL
Blair's finest pre-college students featured in a variety of solo works for piano, strings, woodwinds, brass and voice

Monday, May 3, 2010
Ingram Hall
7:30 p.m.
CURB YOUTH SYMPHONY
Carol Nies, director

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Ingram Hall
7:30 p.m.
NASHVILLE YOUTH REPERTORY ORCHESTRA
Sally McFadden, director
SUZUKI STRING ORCHESTRA, YOUTH STRINGS ORCHESTRA,
BEGINNING READING ORCHESTRA
Celeste Tuten, director

Friday, May 14, 2010
Ingram Hall
7:30 p.m.
BLAIR CHILDREN'S CHORUS PROGRAM
Hazel Somerville and Coni Ely Guerin, directors
Featuring the Blair Children's Concert Choir, Young Men's Chorus, Choristers, Nashville Boychoir at Blair, and Young Singers of Blair

Friday, May 14, 2010 - TICKETED EVENT
Steve and Judy Turner Hall
8:00 p.m.
ALIAS Spring Concert
Philippe Hersant Eleven Caprices for two cellos (1994)
Gabriela Lena Frank Danza de los Saqsampillos for two marimbas (2006)
Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet (1905)
Lili Boulanger Attente, Le Retour, Reflets for soprano and piano
Gabriela Lena Frank Quijotadas for String Quartet (2007)
For tickets and information please go to www.aliasmusic.org

Friday, May 21, 2010
Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m.
VANDERBILT COMMUNITY CHORUS
David Binns Williams, director
The program includes J.S.Bach's Magnificat with chamber orchestra.