Blair Calendar of Events

BLAIR CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2009 FALL

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - except where noted in individual listings.
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(updated November 13, 2009)

SEPTEMBER 2009 | OCTOBER 2009 | NOVEMBER 2009 | DECEMBER 2009

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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