The Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society presented its winter concert on Nov. 30 in Wellin Hall. Directed by G. Roberts Kolb, the program celebrated the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s birth. Featured on the program were Schumann’s Missa scara, Nachtlied, and Scenes From Goethe’s Faust.

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The Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society will present its winter concert on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts.

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The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing presented three works by Samuel Pellman,  the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, on Oct. 27 as part of the Musicacoustica 2010 Festival. The concert included M45, NGC 1999, and NGC 6357 -- three works from the Selected Nebulae series of works composed for virtual instruments with video by Miranda Raimondi '08.

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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a free faculty recital by Heather Buchman, trombone, on Sunday, Nov. 7, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall. Buchman will be accompanied by Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, and Ilze Brink-Button, horn, in the program of solo works and transcriptions for trombone by Bach, Scarlatti, Mahler and others.

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The Departments of Music and Dance and Movement Studies will offer a full schedule of free performances in Wellin Hall during the College’s Family Weekend, Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30.

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Professor of Music Michael “Doc” Woods received an award from the ASCAPLUS Awards Program sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). According to ASCAP, the award program provides recognition and a cash award “for writer members whose catalogs have prestige value for which they would not otherwise be compensated.” More ...

The Hamilton College Music Department has an exciting calendar of student and faculty performance scheduled for the fall 2010 semester. All performances are general admission and take place at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton College campus. Admission is free and all performances begin at 8 p.m., unless otherwise noted. More ...

Legendary trumpeter Clark Terry once said that true musicianship can be achieved through imitation, assimilation and innovation. This summer, Tim Carman ’11 intends to tackle the “imitation” aspect; working with an Emerson grant and Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley, he will create a manual of the most important drum grooves for drummers to study. More ...

NGC 1999: Spooky Action at a Distance, a work created by Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music Samuel Pellman and Miranda Raimondi '08 was presented at the SCOPE international art festival in Basel from June 15-19 as part of an installation titled "The Light at the End of the Tunnel." The show was conceived as a celebration of the Large Hadron Collider that recently became operational at CERN Labs in Geneva. More ...

The Hamilton College Music Department presents the 2010 Senior Concert on Saturday, May 22, at 9 p.m., in Wellin Hall. More ...