Final events of the semester

We invite you to experience our final musical offerings for Spring 2013!  Here are a few of the concerts and recitals in the next week.

Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m. – Concert Series: New Music Ensemble.  Community Music School room 11, 535 Garden Ave, 63119.  $

Saturday, April 27 at 12 noon – Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition preliminary round, featuring five emerging singers.  Moore Auditorium, 470 E Lockwood, 63119.  Free!

Sunday, April 28 at 7.30 p.m. – Webster Presents: Webster University Choirs, conducted by Trent Patterson and Martha Hart.  Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave, 63119.  $

Monday, April 29 at 7 p.m. – Webster Presents: Webster Wind Ensemble & Webster Jazz Collective, conducted by James Martin.  Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave, 63119.  $

Bob Chamberlin

What an extraordinary concert . . . and afternoon . . . this was!

Bob Chamberlin is the senior faculty member in the Department of Music.  During his time at Webster, Bob has also been Director of the London campus, Acting Dean of Students, and Director of Academic Advising.

The one constant in Bob’s long career has been his creative life as a composer (along with his marriage to the delightful Jan, and his other roles as father, organist, and punster).

Bob is quick-witted, ever-smiling, and one of the most genuinely lovely people I know.  I value his guidance and wisdom, and respect him tremendously.

Two years ago, our colleague Pat Partridge, Canon Musician at Christ Church Cathedral, suggested that one of the concerts on the Shepley Series there feature music by Bob.  Today was the day.

Over the course of 90 minutes, we heard Bob’s music sung by choirs, played by a tuba, rung by handbells.  There was organ, piano, percussion, flute, strings, brass.  And a bagpipe.

We heard hymn tunes.  And songs about fish.  Aleatory music, and carefully crafted toccatas.

The breadth and inventiveness of this extraordinary man . . . and the humor he brings to everything he does . . . was truly present today.

Add to that a full house and an appreciative audience, and one has a wonderful April afternoon.

Bob and his immediate family.

Senior faculty and a proud department chair.

Bob with colleague Donna Vince after the concert.

Next events

Monday, April 1 at 7 p.m. – Concert Series: Music for Baroque cello, with Ken Kulosa and friends.  Moore Auditorium, 470 E Lockwood, 63119.  $
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/03/26/april-department-of-music-events/

Monday, April 1 at 7 p.m. – Jazz at Webster: Student Jazz Combos.  Community Music School room 10, 535 Garden Ave, 63119.  $

Wednesday, April 3 at 8 p.m. – Jazz at Webster: Paul DeMarinis, saxophone, and Kim Portnoy, piano, in faculty recital.  Thompson Music Building recital hall, 8282 Big Bend, 63119.  Free!  (Note the 8 p.m. start time.)

Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. – Webster Presents: Perspectives – The Music of Bob Chamberlin, on the Shepley Concert Series.  Christ Church Cathedral, 13^th and Locust, Saint Louis.  Free!
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/03/13/the-music-of-robert-chamberlin-at-christ-church-cathedral-april-7/

Monday, April 8 at 7 p.m.  – Concert Series: Chamber Music for Voice and Flute, with Martha J. Hart, voice and Paula Kasica, flute in a faculty recital.  Moore Auditorium, 470 E Lockwood, 63119.  $
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/03/26/april-department-of-music-events/

Monday, April 8 at 7 p.m. – Jazz at Webster: Student Jazz Combos.  Community Music School room 10, 535 Garden Ave, 63119.  $

Archibeque residency

Charlene Archibeque kicked off a week-long residency Sunday evening with a tutti choral rehearsal of Benjamin Britten’s Cantata misericordium.

The concert is Tuesday, March 5, at 7.30 p.m.

http://www.webster.edu/fine-arts/departments/music/music-entrepreneurship.html

Next events

Here are a few of the concerts and recitals in the next two weeks.  As always, more details on these performances and up-to-date information on all Department of Music offerings, including near-nightly student recitals, small ensemble performances, and guest master classes is available at www.webster.edu/music, or simply click here for the direct calendar link.

In the next two weeks . . .

Saturday, March 2 at 10.30 a.m. – Master Class: Daniel Schene, with three students from the studios of the Saint Louis Area Music Teachers Association.  Moore Auditorium, 470 E Lockwood.  Free.
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/02/25/pianist-daniel-schene-and-violinist-eva-szekely-to-perform-march-3/

Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m. – Sundays at Siteman: Student Composers from Webster University.  For details, please see http://www.barnesjewish.org/SundaysatSiteman-ProjectMusic

Sunday, March 3 at 4 p.m. – Concert Series: Daniel Schene, piano and Eva Szekely, violin play Beethoven violin sonatas.  Moore Auditorium, 470 E Lockwood.  $
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/02/25/pianist-daniel-schene-and-violinist-eva-szekely-to-perform-march-3/

Monday, March 4 at 7 p.m. – Webster Presents: Wind Ensemble, Jim Martin, conducting.  Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave.  $
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/02/20/webster-wind-ensemble-music-of-england-australia-and-france-march-4/

Tuesday, March 5 at 7.30 p.m. – Webster Presents: Benjamin Britten Centenary Concert, with Webster University choirs and orchestra, Trent Patterson, conducting.  This concert is part of the Shepley Concert Series at Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust, 63103.  Free!
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/02/20/benjamin-britten-centenary-concert-march-5/

March 7-11 – Olivier Chaissain Residency, including a public concert on Saturday, March 9.  For details, please see http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/02/25/olivier-chassain-master-classes-march-7-11-recital-march-9/

Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m. – Saint Louis Symphony Community Partnerships Concert.  Free!  For details please see http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2013/02/19/cms-presents-two-free-concerts-march-9/

Shostakovich

I witnessed tonight a performance of the Shostakovich 5th Symphony, in a performance by the Washington University Symphony Orchestra.  A Friday night of Shostakovich fit very well!

On Sunday we get the Webster University Chamber Orchestra in performance, led by my colleague Paul Davis.  The music is great mash-up: Corelli, Piazzolla, Handel, and Haydn.

Here is some Shostakovich:

Sheila Cooper

Our friend and colleague Sheila Cooper, a Vienna-based jazz artist, presented master classes and worked with students individually on Monday.  Her visit was enthusiastically received!

Sheila teaches sax and jazz voice at our Vienna campus.  She’ll have a couple of our students with her next month when they travel to Vienna for eight weeks of study.

Sheila Cooper in master class.

Events

In the next two weeks . . .

Wednesday, January 16 at 7 p.m. – Concert Series: PEAK Quartet in a concert of music for oboe and strings.  Recital Hall, Thompson Music Building, 8282 Big Bend.  $

Friday & Saturday,  January 18 & 19 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, January 20 at 4 p.m. – Webster Presents: Opera Scenes, Alice Nelson, director, with guest artists Nathan Troup, stage director, and Scoot Schoonover, conductor.  Heagney Theatre at Nerinx Hall High School, 530 E Lockwood.  $  http://www.webster.edu/news/2012/events/121912-opera-studio-performance.html

Final recital this semester

We took our weekly student recital across the street this week, to Emmanuel Episcopal Church, so that we could hear an organ solo as well.  The recital included voice, guitar, harp, and organ in quite a variety of pieces.  Here are a few shots, sadly a bit grainy in the low light without flash:

Next gig

My next gig, aside from church, is the Conservatory cabaret performances this weekend and Monday.

Here are details: http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2012/12/03/webster-university-cabaret-student-showcase-benefit-dec-10-11/