The Hamilton College Department of Music opens the semester with a Fall Faculty Concert on Friday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. Hamilton College Department of Music faculty artists will present a program of classical and neo-classical solo and chamber work. The program includes pieces for piano, violin, saxophone, voice, and a chamber ensemble.
Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, will perform Muzio Clementi's Sonatina for piano, Opus 36 No. 1 and Eric Satie's Sonatine Bureacratique. The three movements of Sonatine Bureaucratique are deliberately constructed as a parody of the Sonatina for piano, Opus 36 No. 1 composed by Muzio Clementi. The piece is accompanied by text that illustrates the daily life of a bureaucrat.
Several pieces composed by Mozart are on the program, including two separate concert arias by sopranos Anita Firman and Lauralyn Kolb. Both solos come from the more than 40 arias that Mozart wrote for use outside his own operas. These so-called "concert arias" were written for specific singers to use as concert pieces, or to be inserted into operas by other composers—a practice not uncommon during the Classical period. Also by Mozart on the program is Sonata in B-flat for Piano Four Hands to be performed by Joyce Ucci and Colleen Roberts Pellman.
The music of Igor Stravinsky also features prominently on the program with violinist Vladimir Pritsker performing Russian Song and Russian Dance and Heather Buchman conducting a faculty ensemble in Concerto in E-flat, known also as "Dumbarton Oaks." Ms. Buchman will also conduct Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #3. Saxophonist Monk Rowe will perform Telmann's Sonata in C-minor.
This concert is free and open to the public. There will be a reception in Schambach 108 immediately following the performance. Seating is general admission. For more information, please call the Performing Arts box office at 859-4331.
