Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series:

Celebrating Collegiality and Excellence

The Faculty & Friends Chamber Series at TCU presents four concerts featuring world-class artists from the TCU School of Music faculty and their friends in short chamber music programs. Each concert begins at 7:30 pm in PepsiCo Recital Hall with a brief narrative presentation.

Admission $10/general admission, $5/students and seniors, FREE with TCU ID. $32 Season Pass available only at the TCU School of Music Office, Ed Landreth Building.

PepsiCo Recital Hall (in the Walsh Center for the Performing Arts) is located at the corner of South University Drive and West Cantey Street. Free parking is available in a lot north of the facility.
For further information, please contact 817-257-7602 or email j.castro-balbi@tcu.edu.

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2008-2009 Season

Monday, September 22, 2008
PepsiCo Recital Hall
7:30 PM

FRENCH MASTERS: DEBUSSY AND MESSIAEN

Joseph H. Butler, speaker
Katherine L. Turner, Program Annotator

Sonata for harp, flute, and viola, L 137 (1915)                          Claude Debussy
                                                                                                       (1862-1918)
Helen Blackburn, flute
Laura Logan, harp
Misha Galaganov, viola

Trois mélodies (1930)                                                          Olivier Messiaen
                                                                                                       (1908-1992)

Pourquoi? (Messiaen)
La sourire (Cécile Sauvage)
La fiancée perdue (Messiaen)
                       
Colleen Mallette, soprano
David Yeomans, piano

- Intermission -

Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (1941)                                                            Olivier Messiaen
I. Liturgie de cristal
II. Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
III. Abîme des oiseaux
IV. Intermède
V. Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus
VI. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
VII. Foullis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
VIII. Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus

Curt Thompson, violin
Gary Whitman, clarinet
Jesús Castro-Balbi, cello
John Owings, piano

Monday, November 17, 2008
PepsiCo Recital Hall
7:30 PM

THE RAPTURE OF THE YEAR

Orion (2008)                                                   Till MacIvor Meyn
                                                                                     (b. 1970)
* World Premiere

Trio Con Brio
Misha Galaganov, viola
Gary Whitman, clarinet
John Owings, piano

- Intermission -

Duo (2007)                                     Martin Blessinger
                                                                         (b. 1978)

Joseph Eckert, saxophone
Janet Pummill, piano

Auden Songs (1989)                                            Ned Rorem
                                                                                     (b. 1923)
I. The Shield of Achilles
II. Lady, Weeping at the Crossraods
III. Epitaph on a Tyrant
IV. Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love
V. But I Can’t
VI. Yes, We Are Going to Suffer
VII. Nocturne

San-ky Kim, tenor
Curt Thompson, violin
Laura Ospina, cello
Janet Pummill, piano

The Rapture of the Year (2008)                           Janet Pummill
                                                                                     (b. 1942)
* World Premiere

Julie Pummill Dean, soprano
Sheri Neill, alto
Douglas Pummill, tenor
Till Meyn, bass
Helen Blackburn, Flute
Stewart Williams, oboe
Gary Whitman, clarinet
Alton Adkins, French horn
Charles Hall, bassoon
Janet Pummill, piano

Monday, February 16, 2009
PepsiCo Recital Hall
7:30 PM

BARTOK AND DVORAK

David Yeomans, Speaker and Program Annotator

Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz 110, BB115 (1938)           Béla Bartók(1881-1945)
           

Assai lento – Allegro troppo
Lento, ma non troppo
Allegro non troppo

John Owings and Harold Martina, pianos
Brian West and Paul Rennick, percussion

- Intermission -

Quintet in A Major, Op.81 (1887)                                         Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)

Allegro, ma non tanto
Dumka: Andante con moto
Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace
Finale: Allegro

Curt Thompson and Arkady Fomin, violins
Misha Galaganov, viola
Jesús Castro-Balbi, cello
John Owings, piano

Monday, April 6, 2009
Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series
PepsiCo Recital Hall
7:30 PM

MIRO STRING QUARTET AND FRIENDS

Michael Meckna, Program Annotator

String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” (1928)                                 Leoš Janá?ek (1854-1928)

Andante
Adagio
Moderato
Allegro

Miró String Quartet:
Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto, violins
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello

Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478 (1785)              Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(1756-1791)

Allegro 
Andante
Rondeau

Daniel Ching / Sandy Yamamoto, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
John Owings, piano

- Intermission -

String Quintet in C Major, D 956 (1828)                              Franz Schubert  (1797-1828)

Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Scherzo: Presto – Trio: Andante sostenuto – Tempo I
Allegretto

Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto, violins
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele and Jesús Castro-Balbi, cellos