Department of Music Showcase

 

Free Admission.

Spend an afternoon enjoying the musical talents of students from all over Washington University. The Music Department Showcase is an exciting event featuring some of the University's most gifted singers and instrumentalists, as soloists and in small and large ensembles.

 

PROGRAM
 
Esprit de Corps (1984) by Robert Jager (b. 1939)
Washington University Wind Ensemble
Chris Becker, director
 
Lute Suite, BWV 996 (c. 1712) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Sarabande                              
Bourrée                   
Ian Marshall, guitar
 
Songs of the Ocean (1977 - 1979) by Ryohei Hirose (1930 - 2008), Arr. by Ann Pearce (b.1945)
There Was No Ocean           
The Tufted Puffin                            
Lullaby of the Ocean                                                                      
Washington University Flute Choir
Jan Smith, director
 
“Laurie’s Song” from The Tender Land (1954) by Aaron Copland  (1900 – 1990)     
Tori Francis, soprano
Sandra Geary, piano
 
Papa Loko (2010)    Haitian traditional Arr. by Sten Källberg (b.1952)
Washington University Choirs
Nicole Aldrich, director
 
 
Concerto in c minor (c. 1717) by Alessandro Marcello (1669 - 1747)
Andante                    
Adagio    
Emily Goering, oboe
Nicole Aldrich, piano
 
Danse russe from Three Movements from Petrushka (1921) by Igor Stravinsky  (1882 – 1971)  
Jacob Nydegger, piano
 
“Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja” from Die Zauberflöte (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)                                
“The Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare Song” from Iolanthe (1882) by W. S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911) & A. Sullivan (1842 – 1900)    
Anthony Tomassini, baritone
Sandra Geary, piano
 
Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39 (1867) by Johannes Brahms  (1833 – 1897)  
No. 11 Allegretto                                                                                       
No. 15 Allegretto
No. 1 Tempo giusto 
Silas Hu & Jacob Nydegger, pianists