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SPRING 2015
CONCERT SERIES
SPONSORS
With the presentation of the 2015
Concert Series, the Blair School of Music
gratefully acknowledges the following
individuals and organizations
for their generous support
Anonymous friend of the Blair School
Anonymous graduate of the Blair School
Barbara Engelhardt and Justin Wilson
Landis Gullett Charitable Lead Trust
Page and Bzur Haun
Melissa and Scot Hollmann
Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc
L. Michelson B.Mus. ’11 Fund
for Collaborative Master Classes
Inka and Richard Odom
Parents of a current Blair School student
Valere Blair Potter Trust
Mary Cortner Ragland Master Series Fund
Delphine and Ken Roberts
Judy and Steve Turner
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Cyrus Daniel’s lasting legacy
If you have attended events in the
Blair School’s Steve and Judy Turner
Recital Hall in the last six months,
you have noticed major changes. Organ
builders from the Dobson Pipe Organ
Builders in Iowa have been at Blair for
many months installing a new pipe organ,
thanks to a major gift from Cal Turner Jr. and
his sister, Laura Dugas.
Turner and Dugas gave the organ in honor of
Cyrus Daniel, the Vanderbilt University organist
from 1946 to 1968 and a beloved figure in the
school’s history. The gift is on behalf of all of Daniel’s
former students—a group that includes Turner.
The instrument is built in the style of eighteenthcentury Central German organs similar to those
Bach knew, and will therefore be especially wellsuited to Germanic organ music through the time
of Mendelssohn.
As an unexpected benefit, musicians who have
performed in Turner Hall since the organ’s
installation say the acoustics in the room are
better than they have ever been.
We are deeply grateful to Turner and Dugas
for this legacy gift, whose benefits will long
outlast all of us at Blair today. I invite you
to join us in February for the instrument’s
formal dedication and first public
performance.
Also of note this spring, the Blair
School will host the biennial
convention of the College
Band Directors National
Association.
Bands from all over the country
will come to Nashville in March for a
week of meetings, concerts, and other
special events.
VORTEX percussion has brought to
Nashville and will perform a concert on the
American Gamelan, a massive, multi-person
assemblage of pipes, gongs, and more. The
instrument is one of just four in existence, and
it’s an honor to present it.
Over the past few years, the Blair School has
forged a close partnership with contemporary
composer Michael Hersch, and this spring Carolyn
Huebl and I will present the world-premiere
performance of Zwischen Leben und Tod (Between
Life and Death), a newly commissioned piece for
violin and piano.
Another familiar face to Blair audiences over the
past few years is collaborative pianist Warren Jones.
Jones has performed at Blair with guest vocalists
Thomas Hampson, Eric Owens, and Stephanie
Blythe, but this spring he steps into the spotlight
himself, conducting collaborative master classes
with teams of student singers and pianists and
culminating in a public recital.
For all these celebrations and special
events, not to mention our usual slate of
outstanding faculty, student, and guest
performers, I hope you’ll join us at
Blair this spring as we embark on
our next fifty years.
Mark Wait, Dean
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Blair Academy of Music opens in September, as the
precollege division of the School of Music of George
Peabody College for Teachers. Fall enrollment: 224
students. Faculty: 1 full-time (Roland Schneller),
19 part-time. John Friedel (Del) Sawyer, director.
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Located at 1208 Eighteenth Avenue South on the
Peabody campus. Funded by the Justin and Valere Potter
Foundation; Valere Blair Potter named the school in honor
of her mother, Myra Jackson Blair.
GUEST RECITAL
& MASTER CLASS
Yizhak Schotten,
viola
NIGHTCAP SERIES
Melissa Rose, piano
Jim Lovensheimer, narrator
With pre-concert talk by Joy Calico
With Amy Dorfman, piano,
Felix Wang, cello, and
Polly Brecht, harpsichord
Tuesday, January 20
Sunday, January 11
8:00 p.m., Pre-concert talk
8:30 p.m., Performance
4:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Israeli-born violist Yizhak Schotten, professor of viola
at the University of Michigan and music director of
the Maui Classical Music Festival in Hawaii, performs
Bach’s Gamba Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Viola and
Harpsichord, and Brahms’ Trio for Viola, Cello, and Piano
in A Minor, Op. 114, and conducts master classes with
Blair viola students.
Vanderbilt University
Concerto Competition
Finals
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
ENOCH ARDEN BY RICHARD STRAUSS
Lovensheimer and Rose perform Enoch Arden, Richard
Strauss’ melodrama setting of the 1864 epic poem by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Composed in 1897 for the actor
Ernst von Possart, the work was performed widely by the
two friends. It continued a popular Romantic tradition of
creating theater by setting spoken poetry to music, and
was a popular example of the chamber music genre to
which Arnold Schoenberg was responding when he wrote
Pierrot Lunaire fifteen years later. Today, spoken text with
musical accompaniment is most recognizable as a foreshadowing of the modern cinematic soundtrack. Calico
elaborates on the melodrama genre, and Enoch Arden’s
place in that tradition, in her pre-concert talk.
Sunday, January 18
7:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
Our best and brightest go head to head. For the fifth
year in a row, we open the final round of the Vanderbilt
University Concerto Competition to the public. The 2015
Concerto Competition includes a separate category
just for wind instruments. Judges will announce the
winners at the end of the evening, and those talented
instrumentalists will perform as featured soloists with
the Vanderbilt Wind Symphony on February 13 and the
Vanderbilt University Orchestra on April 10.
Currier & Ives: Enoch Arden—The Hour of the Trial
Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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1967
1968
1969
Blair String Quartet established. First members are
Sheldon Kurland and Stephen Clapp (violins), Lee Kull (viola),
and David Vanderkooi (cello).
Suzuki program, one of first programs in
the region, is begun by Sharon Rogers.
Blair celebrates its 5th anniversary.
Faculty: 10 full-time, 15 part-time.
GUEST ARTISTS
The Merling Trio
Wednesday, January 21
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Now celebrating its 26th season with original members Bruce Uchimura, cello,
Renata Artman Knific, violin, and Susan Wiersma Uchimura, piano, the Merling
Trio is in residence at Western Michigan University. A truly international trio, it
brings together musicians from Polish, Japanese, and Dutch backgrounds. The
Merling Trio has been hailed as a brilliantly distinguished group endowed with
remarkable gifts of communication, magnificent precision, and an impeccable
blend of sound. Their program will include a rare arrangement of the Brahms
Hungarian Dances for piano trio by Friedrich Hermann, the Cuatro Estaciones
Porteñas by Piazzolla, and Dvorˇák’s famed “Dumky” trio.
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SIGNATURE SERIES
Blair Student Showcase
Friday, January 23
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
The Blair School’s very best and brightest—from solo artists to string quartets—
show off what they can do. Come see the future of classical music!
Presented with gratitude to Page and Bzur Haun for their generous
support of the Blair School
Vanderbilt University Orchestra
Robin Fountain, conductor
and
Vanderbilt Wind Symphony
Thomas Verrier, conductor
Saturday, January 24
7:15 p.m., Pre-concert talk by Joy Calico, Choral Hall
8:00 p.m., Concert, Ingram Hall
The Vanderbilt Orchestra performs Claude Debussy’s Fêtes, from Nocturnes;
Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw, performed with the men of
the Vanderbilt Symphonic Choir and with narration by musicologist
Jim Lovensheimer; and Gustav Mahler’s “Adagio” from Symphony No. 10.
Before the concert, musicology professor Joy Calico will discuss the Debussy,
Schoenberg, and Mahler pieces to be performed by the orchestra, at 7:15 p.m.
in Choral Hall.
The wind symphony, meanwhile, performs a program titled “Monuments” that
includes the world premiere of Michaek Kurek’s Monument, guest conducted by
Vanderbilt’s Director of University Bands Dwayne Sagen. Other works include
Gordon Jacob’s An Original Suite, Wagner/Cailliet’s Elsa’s Procession to the
Cathedral, and John Mackey’s Strange Humors.
Presented with gratitude to Inka and Richard Odom for their generous
support of the Blair School
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1971
1972
Blair Woodwind Quintet established. Two
of first members are Bobby Taylor (oboe) and
Jane Kirchner (flute).
Blair becomes cosponsor with Nashville Symphony Orchestra
of Nashville Youth Symphony. Nashville Junior Symphony
is organized. Chris Teal joins Blair String Quartet.
JANUARY
MASTER CLASS
Dave Liebman,
saxophone
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Thursday, February 5
2:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
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Vanderbilt Collegiate
Choral Ensembles
Tucker Biddlecombe, director
Friday, February 6
FACULTY RECITAL
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
The Atlantic Ensemble
Sunday, January 25
3:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Enjoy an afternoon of chamber music with the Atlantic
Ensemble. The program includes W. A. Mozart’s Piano
Quartet in E-flat Major and the Piano Quartet in C Minor
of Johannes Brahms.
FACULTY RECITAL
Felix Wang, cello
With Polly Brecht, organ, Bil Jackson,
clarinet, John Johns, guitar, and
Christina McGann, violin
CHORAL PRISM
In its third year, the annual “Choral Prism” concert
has become one of Blair’s most anticipated and highly
attended student concert events. Choral Prism 2015
features performances from the Vanderbilt Chorale
and the Symphonic and Concert Choirs, as well as the
first performance by the Blair Vocal Jazz Ensemble. We
will also feature some of Vanderbilt’s premier studentled performance groups, including a cappella groups
The Melodores and Harmonic Notion and South Asian
dance troupe The BhangraDores. Performances occur
throughout the auditorium and in quick succession,
creating a unique and engaging concert experience.
Presented with gratitude to the Sartain Lanier
Family Foundation Inc. for its generous support of
the Blair School
Thursday, January 29
8:00 p.m.,
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Versatile powerhouse cellist Felix Wang gives a recital
featuring pieces pairing the cello with a host of different
accompanying instruments, including continuo organ,
guitar, clarinet, and violin. The program will include
works by Vivaldi, Ravel, Granados, Hindemith, and
Kodály.
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Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
1974
1977
Blair celebrates its 10th anniversary. Informal discussion begins
about a merger with Vanderbilt University. Kathryn Plummer hired
as violist for the Blair String Quartet.
Blair Academy separates from Peabody and becomes
Blair School of Music. Blair accredited as a non-degree-granting
institution by the National Association of Schools of Music.
NIGHTCAP SERIES
Ben Harris, piano
Preston Orr,
baritone
Gayle Shay,
mezzo-soprano
and Jeremy Wilson,
trombone
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Tuesday, February 10
8:00 p.m.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
A MODERN MUSICAL FABLE
BLAIR PRESENTS
An Introduction to the
Blair School’s New
Pipe Organ
Carl Smith, organist
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June has a problem. After eleven years
of marriage, she thought she understood
her husband perfectly. And then, one
morning, that all changed.
This original lyric theatre piece
incorporates popular song, art song,
spoken dialogue, trombone, and piano.
Rena Sharon, professor of collaborative
piano at the University of British
Columbia and artistic director of the
Vancouver International Song Institute,
will give a pre-concert lecture at 8:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
This program marks the dedication of the Blair School’s new Dobson pipe
organ, whose construction and installation were made possible through a
generous gift from Cal Turner Jr. and Laura Dugas. The organ is given to Blair
in honor of longtime and much-loved Vanderbilt organist Cyrus Daniel, on
behalf of all his former students—a group that includes Turner.
The first part of the event will be an informal discussion of the organ’s design
and musical characteristics, with numerous musical illustrations. This will
be followed by a formal 45-minute recital on the organ, including music by
Couperin, Bach, Brahms, and others. A reception will follow the recital, with
an opportunity to meet the organ builder.
Presented with gratitude to Lois and Peter Fyfe
for their generous support of the Blair School
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1978
1979
New building planned on 3.5 acres of the
Vanderbilt University campus. The Blair String
Quartet debuts at Carnegie Recital Hall.
Ground broken for the building on Blakemore
Avenue. Fall enrollment: 444 precollege, 87 adults,
and 94 college students.
FEBRUARY
GUEST ARTIST
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Michael Samis,
cello
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With Amy Dorfman, piano
Thursday, February 12
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8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner
Recital Hall
GUEST ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Cavell Trio
Tuesday, February 10
Cellist Michael Samis, recognized for his “shining and
expressive” playing (The Tennessean) and “haunting”
tone (Cincinnati Post), and Blair pianist Amy Dorfman
collaborate in works by composers who had a voice in
human rights. The duo perform sonatas by Dame Ethel
Smyth, who spent time in prison because of her work
in the women’s suffrage movement, and Ludwig van
Beethoven, who always advocated for human equality.
and Wednesday, February 11
Recital: 2:10–3:00 p.m., Wednesday,
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Oboe master class: 2:35–3:10 p.m., Tuesday, Choral Hall
Bassoon master class: 4:30–6:00 p.m., Tuesday
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Clarinet master class: Noon–2:00 p.m., Wednesday,
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
The Cavell Trio (Shelly Myers, oboe, Osiris J. Molina,
clarinet, Jenny Mann, bassoon) is a chamber ensemble
composed of faculty from the University of Alabama
School of Music. Since its founding in 2007, Cavell has
been a leader in reed trio performance, bringing an
increased awareness of the myriad possibilities of this
chamber genre.
FACULTY RECITAL
Peter Kolkay, bassoon
Wednesday, February 11
8:00 p.m.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
With Philip Dikeman, flute,
Felix Wang, cello, and
Polly Brecht, harpsichord
VIRTUE/VIRTUOSITY
Bassoonist Peter Kolkay explores
the complementary yet problematic relationship between
virtue and virtuosity in works by Philipp Friedrich
Böddecker, Heinz Holliger, John Cage, and Antonio
Vivaldi. He will also premiere a new work
by Gordon Beeferman.
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Vanderbilt University
Orchestra
Robin Fountain, conductor
and
Vanderbilt Wind Symphony
Thomas Verrier, conductor
Friday, February 13
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
The Vanderbilt Orchestra performs the entr’actes from
Franz Schubert’s Rosamunde and Robert Schumann’s
Symphony No. 4.
The Vanderbilt Wind Symphony accompanies the
winner of the 2015 Vanderbilt Wind Symphony Concerto
Competition and also performs John Harbison’s
Three City Blocks.
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1981
Blair School moves into the new building. The Blair String Quartet
performs at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Blair Guild
founded. Blair becomes the first accredited NASM school to
offer banjo and fiddle for credit.
Blair School of Music merges with Vanderbilt
University on January 1. Spring enrollment: 489
precollege, 201 adults, and 420 college students
(VU and 7 area colleges).
MASTER CLASS
TICKETED EVENT
Mauricio Fuks, violin
ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
Saturday, February 14
Tuesday, February 17
10:00 a.m.–noon and 1:30–3:30 p.m., Choral Hall
Sunday, February 15
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., Choral Hall
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8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
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Daniel Elder, The Ties Eternal, for soprano, two violins,
two cellos, and percussion (world premiere)
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Matt Walker, Wood, for violin and marimba
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Conni Ellisor, String Quartet (world premiere)
TICKETED EVENT
Chris Farrell, String Quartet No. 2 (world premiere) Nashville Jazz Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, Piano Trio
Aaron Copland, Elegies, for violin and viola
Jim Williamson, director
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ALIAS’ winter concert lives up to the ensemble’s
reputation for creating new music and for presenting
unusual works. It is an all-American program featuring
four Nashville composers presenting three world
premieres, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s piano trio
and an unpublished violin-viola duo by Aaron Copland.
Saturday, February 14
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
Tickets: $20 adults; $15 seniors (65+) and
Vanderbilt faculty and staff; free for students
with ID. Tickets available at the door.
Tickets: $20 adults; $5 students with ID; free for
Blair students with ID.
All proceeds from this concert benefit local anti-poverty
service organization Open Table.
FACULTY RECITAL
JOHN PARTIPILO
Daniel Reinker, viola
With Francis Perry, theorbo, Jared
Hauser, oboe, Melissa Rose, piano,
and William G. Wiggins, percussion
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Monday, February 16
8:00 p.m.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Violist Reinker presents a program
showcasing the breadth and diversity of which the viola is capable.
William Flackton’s Sonata for Viola
and Basso Continuo is one of the
earliest-known works written for viola. Charles Loeffler’s
Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Violin, and Piano were inspired
by The Pond and The Bagpipe, a pair of poems by Maurice
Rollinat. And Michael Colgrass’ Variations for Four Drums
and Viola, written in 1959 for viola and four tunable
drums, is a virtuosic piece for both players.
Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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1982
1984
Vanderbilt University’s Board of Trust authorizes the development
of Blair to the status of a degree-granting school of the university.
Nashville Contemporary Brass Quintet becomes official
faculty ensemble. Connie Heard becomes second violinist in
Blair String Quartet.
Blair celebrates its 20th anniversary. Del Sawyer
appointed Blair’s first dean. Faculty: 17 full-time, 33 part-time;
15 faculty in Nashville Symphony.
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Blair String Quartet
Stephen Miahky and Cornelia Heard, violins, John Kochanowski, viola,
Felix Wang, cello
Friday, February 20
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
The Blair String Quartet presents an all-Viennese program representing different
masters of the string quartet. Haydn’s remarkable F-minor quartet from the
innovative Op. 20 begins the program, followed by two startlingly different
works by Anton Webern: the expressive Langsamer Satz and the secretive Six
Bagatelles. The program concludes with Beethoven’s joyful and effervescent
“Harp” Quartet, nicknamed for its use of distinctive, harp-like pizzicato.
Presented with gratitude to Delphine and Ken Roberts for their
generous support of the Blair School
Vanderbilt Commodore Orchestra
Keehun Nam, conductor
Saturday, February 21
3:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
L’INSPIRATION D’AMOUR
Students throughout Vanderbilt come together to present an afternoon filled with drama,
romance, and the inspiration of love. In its second year, the Vanderbilt Commodore Orchestra
brings together undergraduates from all of Vanderbilt’s colleges, along with alumni and
residents of the greater Nashville area to share the drama of Carmen, the symbolist tone
poems of Debussy, and the romance of Romeo and Juliet. The transcendent passion personified
throughout this music represents the central pillars of the inspiration of love. You will not
want to miss this breathtaking experience from the Vanderbilt Commodore Orchestra!
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1985
1986
Vanderbilt University Board of Trust approves beginning the Bachelor
of Music program. Peabody Music Library moves to Blair
building. In April, 51 faculty with 16 full-time.
First class of Bachelor of Music students matriculates.
Blair String Quartet named a finalist in the 1986 Naumburg
International Chamber Competition. Blair Children’s Chorus
formed by Nancy Boone.
FACULTY RECITAL
FEBRUARY
Amy Jarman, soprano,
and Jerome Reed, piano
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With Cornelia Heard, violin
Sunday, February 22
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O RAVISHING DELIGHT!
A recital of art song exploring love, tenderness, regret,
and joy, including Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre, Canticle
I: My Beloved is Mine and I Am His by Benjamin Britten, and songs by
Thomas Arne, Edvard Grieg, and Gabriel Fauré.
GUEST ARTIST
GUEST ARTIST
John Whitener,
tuba
Charles Castleman, violin
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Monday, February 23
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner
Recital Hall
Charles Castleman has been a soloist with the orchestras
of Philadelphia, Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Hong Kong,
Moscow, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Seoul,
and Shanghai. His Jongen Concerto is included in a Cypres
CD set of the seventeen best prize-winning performances
of the Brussels Concours’ 50-year history. A medalist at
Tchaikovsky and Brussels, he has been a professor of
violin at the Eastman School of Music since 1975.
John Whitener has been principal
tuba of the Royal Scottish
National Orchestra since 2009.
He has recorded extensively with the RSNO and toured
throughout Europe and China. He has also performed
with many of the world’s great orchestras, including
the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Opera, the
Brussels Philharmonic, and the Malaysian Philharmonic
Orchestra. Whitener is currently the tuba and euphonium
specialist at the prestigious private High School of
Glasgow, and has also taught at the Royal Conservatoire
of Scotland.
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Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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1987
1988
Minors in music and music history developed
for students in Vanderbilt University schools and colleges.
Violist John Kochanowski joins Blair String Quartet.
Blair and College of Arts and Science develop new program:
music major as a second major, not open to Blair Students.
FEBRUARY
Living Sounds
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New works by Blair’s composition majors, performed by their peers.
Always an engaging and highly eclectic evening of music. Come hear
the next generation of classical composition!
BLAIR PRESENTS
Carolyn Huebl, violin, and Mark Wait, piano
Thursday, February 26
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
WORLD PREMIERE: MICHAEL HERSCH’S
ZWISCHEN LEBEN UND TOD
Violinist Carolyn Huebl and pianist Mark Wait present the world
premiere of a new work commissioned by the Blair School from
groundbreaking American composer Michael Hersch. (Hersch’s Images
from a Closed Ward, also commissioned by Blair, was premiered by the
Blair String Quartet at Blair and at Carnegie Hall in 2012.)
Here’s what Hersch has to say about this major new composition:
“Zwischen Leben und Tod is a programlength work for violin and piano based
upon the often disquieting paintings
and drawings of Peter Weiss (1916–1982).
Though it is the first work I have
written where there is a one-to-one
correspondence between music and image,
it is actually the second large-scale work
I have written over the past five years
where visual art plays a central role. The
first, Images From a Closed Ward, co-exists
with the etchings of Michael Mazur
(1935–2009). I am deeply fortunate and
profoundly grateful to have been able to
write both of these works for remarkable
musicians. The fact that all of these
musicians—the Blair String Quartet and
Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait—are part
of Vanderbilt’s Blair School is a testament
to the incredibly high level of the musicmaking going on at this institution.”
Presented with gratitude to
Judy and Steve Turner for their
generous support of the Blair School
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Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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1992
Blair celebrates its 25th anniversary.
First class of Bachelor of Music
students graduates.
National Association of Schools of Music grants final approval
for Bachelor of Music in Musical Arts and Bachelor of Music
in Composition/Theory. BMI Composer-in-Residence
program begins.
MARCH
FACULTY RECITAL
The Mirabelle Trio
Jared Hauser, oboe, Leslie Norton, horn, and Melissa Rose, piano
Tuesday, March 10
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
The Mirabelle Trio continues its exploration of trios written for oboe, horn,
and piano. Heinrich von Herzogenberg’s romantic trio from 1889 contrasts
with a modern trio written a century later by eminent American hornist and
composer Verne Reynolds. Both works complement the Dresdner Trio, written
by Jan Koetsier in 1992, a contemporary work conceived through a musically
romanticized lens.
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MUSIC ON FILM
Béla Fleck: How to Write
a Banjo Concerto
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Thursday, March 12
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
STEVE GREEN
In conjunction with banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck’s
upcoming performances with the Vanderbilt Wind
Symphony of The Imposter, the concerto he originally
composed to perform with the Nashville Symphony,
the Blair School is pleased to host a screening of Béla
Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concerto, the acclaimed
documentary about the making of that work that was
shown at the 2014 Nashville Film Festival.
MASTER CLASSES
Warren Jones,
collaborative pianist
Friday, March 13–Sunday, March 15
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Marvelous collaborative pianist Warren Jones has
performed numerous times at Blair accompanying guest
vocalists. Now he returns to coach teams of student
pianists and singers in collaborative master classes.
Classes take place 7:00–9:00 p.m. on Friday, and
10:00 a.m.–noon, 1:30–3:30 p.m., and 4:15–6:15 p.m. on
Saturday. The residency culminates in a recital at 2:00 p.m.
on Sunday.
Participation in the classes is limited to Blair student
teams by audition, but the public is welcome to attend.
Sponsored by the L. Michelson B.Mus. ’11 Fund
for Collaborative Master Classes and by the
Mary Cortner Ragland Master Series Fund
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1993
1994
Del Sawyer retires, July 1.
Mark Wait becomes new dean.
Blair celebrates its 30th anniversary. Faculty: 23 full-time,
60 part-time. Michael Kurek wins 1994 Academy Award
in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
MARCH
VORTEX percussion
Michael Holland, artistic director
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VORTEX and the
American Gamelan
Photo: Courtesy Beth Remak-Honnef,
UC–Santa Cruz Special Collections
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With New Dialect
Harrison
Sunday, March 15
Noon: Documentary film—LOU HARRISON: A World of Music, the portrait of a
great composer who followed his own dreams. Trading a fast-paced New York
career for a cabin in the woods, Harrison embraced “world music” before the
term was invented. Choral Hall
2:00 p.m.: Not sure what a gamelan is? See and hear the American Gamelan in
a rare and up-close setting with John Pennington. Choral Hall
2:45 p.m.: Informal concert with Cyprian Consiglio and John Pennington, featuring
hand percussion, guitar, and vocal music from the traditions of the Camaldolese
monks. Choral Hall
6:45 p.m.: Enter the world of Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison in an interactive exploration
of sound and movement. Fun for the whole family! Ingram Lobby and Plaza
8:00 p.m.: VORTEX concert (recommended minimum age: 5). Ingram Hall
Celebrating the world music legacy of Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. East meets
West in an orchestra built entirely of shimmering, ethereal metal. “The most
beautiful instrument on the planet,” according to Lou Harrison.
Experience the beauty of the American Gamelan after its 900-mile journey to
Nashville. See and hear this unforgettable orchestra of metal—one of only four
in the world—and explore the cultural frontiers opened by Cowell and Harrison.
Rare archival photographs, audio clips, and historic film footage let Cowell and
Harrison speak to you as VORTEX presents the Southeastern U.S. debut of the
American Gamelan.
Violinist Carolyn Huebl performs Harrison’s Suite for Violin
and American Gamelan, and composer John Pennington
leads the Tennessee premiere of his new work Gitanjali,
with soloist Cyprian Consiglio.
VORTEX. It’s never what you expect.
Support for this concert was provided by: Mark Wait, Dean, Blair School of Music; Frank Wcislo, Dean of The Ingram Commons; Andrea George, Director, Sustain VU;
a 2015 Curb Creative Campus Innovation Grant; Emilie Townes, Dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School; Vanderbilt Student Government; Vanessa Beasley, Director,
Program in America Studies; Tamara Cecala, Director, The Kefi Project; and Chris Purcell, Director, Office of LGBTQI Life at the Potter Center.
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1998
First program in Conversation Series
with guitarist Chet Atkins. Subsequent
artists include fiddler Mark O’Connor,
pianist Awadagin Pratt, singer Amy Grant,
violinist Joshua Bell, mandolinist and country
singer Marty Stuart, songwriter Beth Nielsen
Chapman, guitarist and Dire Straits
frontman Mark Knopfler, singer Steve Earle,
songwriter, composer and musician Randy
Newman, singer-songwriter John Hiatt,
singer Eddy Arnold, singer Wynonna Judd,
singer and pianist Ben Folds, and singer
and guitarist Peter Frampton.
FACULTY AND GUEST RECITAL
Jeremy Wilson and
Tim Higgins, trombones
The five-year Master of Education,
a joint effort of Blair and Peabody, begins
in fall.
Vanderbilt String
Orchestra
Robin Fountain, conductor
Monday, March 16
Thursday, March 19
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
A joint trombone evening with Blair professor Wilson
and Higgins, of Northwestern University’s Bienen
School of Music.
Violist Matthew Hunter of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Hunter
joins the Vanderbilt String
Orchestra this week as guest coach and leader.
The program will include a number of works by
groundbreaking sixteenth-century English composer
Thomas Tallis.
FACULTY RECITAL
Brian Utley, saxophone
With Melissa Rose, piano
Tuesday, March 17
8:00 p.m.,
Steve and Judy Turner
Recital Hall
Utley’s program is an
exploration of the international.
Klonos, by Piet Swerts,
described by the composer as
a “bravura-like fantasy.” The
word itself is of Greek origin, with meanings of “turmoil”
or “an intense spasm or contraction of the muscles.”
Either would be applicable to this piece! Gavambodi 2, by
Jacques Charpentier, is based on Carnatic music of India,
written after the composer had spent more than a year
studying there. Garden of Love, by Jacob Ter Veldhuis, for
soprano saxophone and electronic soundtrack, is based
on a poem of the same name by William Blake.
An Evening of
Chamber Music
MARCH
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29 30
Presented with gratitude to an anonymous friend
of the Blair School
FACULTY RECITAL
Stephen Miahky,
violin
With Amy Dorfman, piano,
and Polly Brecht, harpsichord
Friday, March 20
8:00 p.m.,
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
J. S. Bach, Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016
Charles Ives, Second Sonata
Luciano Berio, Sequenza VIII for Solo Violin
Johannes Brahms, Sonata in A Major, Op. 100
Stephen Miahky, in his solo performance debut at Blair,
presents a recital of repertoire spanning 250 years that
highlights the sonic possibilities of the violin, from the
lyrical to contemporary virtuosity.
With Matthew Hunter, viola, the Blair String Quartet,
and student musicians
Wednesday, March 18
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Violist Matthew Hunter of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra joins Blair students and the Blair String Quartet
for a chamber music concert that includes Brahms’ String
Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Opus 111.
Presented with gratitude to an anonymous friend
of the Blair School
Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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MARCH
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1999
2000
Felix Wang becomes cellist with Blair String Quartet.
Blair Recital Hall renamed Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall.
Completion of Phase 1 addition:
40,700 square feet; classrooms, studios,
practice rooms, courtyard, and gathering
space. In 2000–01, 168 concerts at Blair.
SPECIAL EVENT
2015 College Band Directors
National Association Conference
March 24–28
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The Blair School is honored to host the biennial meeting of the College
Band Directors National Association (CBDNA). All concert events are free
and open to the public, although priority seating will be reserved for
conference attendees.
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Tuesday, March 24, and Wednesday, March 25
29 30
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
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CONFERENCE OPENING CONCERTS
Vanderbilt Wind Symphony
Thomas Verrier, conductor
With special guests Béla Fleck,
banjo, John Harbison,
composer, and Urban Souls
Dance Company (Harrison Guy,
choreographer)
These exciting conferenceopening concerts present the
best of what’s new in the world
of winds. The Vanderbilt Wind
Symphony opens the program
with a new work composed for
Harbison
them by Carlos Guzmán-Muñoz.
Next, Vanderbilt Director of University Bands Dwayne
Sagen leads the ensemble in Michael Kurek’s Monument,
which had its world premiere earlier this spring. Next,
virtuoso banjo innovator Béla Fleck joins the wind
symphony as featured soloist for the world premiere
of the wind ensemble arrangement of The Imposter,
the concerto Fleck composed for and performed with
the Nashville Symphony. Finally, the ensemble presents
the premiere of the modern dance interpretation of John
Harbison’s Three City Blocks, in partnership with the
Urban Souls Dance Company.
John Harbison’s residency is sponsored by BMI
Vanderbilt Wind Symphony
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2002
The grand opening of the Martha Rivers Ingram Center
for the Performing Arts (phase 2) in November. Two endowed
faculty chairs established: the Joseph Joachim Professor of
Violin held by Chris Teal and the Chancellor’s Chair held by
Roland Schneller.
Official opening of Ingram Hall. Faculty
include 20 members of Nashville
Symphony. Blair faculty perform more
than 1,100 concerts in the U.S. and 15
foreign countries. Edgar Meyer named
a MacArthur Fellow.
MARCH
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14 15 16
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20 24 25
26 27 28
29 30
Urban Souls Dance Company
Thursday, March 26
1:30 p.m., Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Columbus State University Wind Ensemble, Jaime Nix, conductor
3:00 p.m., Schermerhorn Symphony Center
The Ohio State University Wind Symphony, Russel Mikkelson, conductor
7:30 p.m., Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Indiana University Wind Ensemble, Steven Pratt, conductor
Friday, March 27
1:30 p.m., Schermerhorn Symphony Center
James Madison Wind Symphony, Stephen Bolstad, conductor
3:00 p.m., Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Temple University Wind Symphony, Emily Threinen, conductor
7:30 p.m., Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Florida State University Wind Orchestra, Richard Clary, conductor
Saturday, March 28
1:30 p.m., Ingram Hall
Small College Intercollegiate Band, Ray Cramer, conductor
8:00 p.m., Schermerhorn Symphony Center
University of Illinois Wind Symphony, Linda Moorhouse, conductor
Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences. Dates subject to change.
Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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2003
2004
Collaboration between Nashville Ballet
and Blair School: Emergence! Nashville
Youth Symphony renamed Curb Youth
Symphony, a collaborative effort between
Blair and Nashville Symphony. Blair adopts
a tenure program for its faculty.
MARCH
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29 30
The Blakemore Trio is founded as a
signature ensemble of the school, with pianist
Amy Dorfman, violinist Carolyn Huebl, and
cellist Felix Wang.
Blair celebrates its 40th anniversary
with a series of events throughout the
academic year. Mark Wait named
holder of the Ingram Dean’s Chair.
GUEST ARTISTS
The Waldland
Ensemble
Hillary Herndon, viola,
Jeremy Reynolds, clarinet,
and Bernadette Lo, piano
Thursday, March 26
8:00 p.m., Choral Hall
An exciting chamber music
recital featuring five new works
commissioned from important modern
composers. Herndon, of the University
of Tennessee-Knoxville, Reynolds,
from the University of Denver, and
Lo, visiting professor of piano at
the University of the South, perform
commissions by Libby Larsen, Kenji
Bunch, Anthony Constantino, Michael
Kimber, and Dana Wilson—all pieces
so new that they were still untitled
when this book went to print! Reynolds
Herndon
FACULTY RECITAL
Blair’s Jazz Department
Friday, March 27
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
The Vanderbilt Jazz Faculty—Bruce Dudley, Liz Johnson, Jerry Kimbrough,
Ryan Middagh, Derrek Phillips, and Roger Spencer—will present a
diverse recital of music ranging from the Great American Songbook to
new compositions and arrangements from the faculty. These prolific jazz
musicians have performed and recorded with some of the top jazz and
popular artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Tony
Bennett, Cab Calloway, Harry Connick, Jr., Joshua Redman, Kurt Elling,
Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin.
Presented with gratitude to Melissa and Scot Hollmann and to an
anonymous graduate of the Blair School for their generous support
Vanderbilt University
Concert Choir
David Binns Williams, director
Sunday, March 29
2:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
The oldest performing group on campus
performs choral works of all genres.
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2006
The Nashville Jazz Orchestra becomes Blair’s
first professional ensemble in residence.
A grant from the James Stephen Turner Charitable Foundation
establishes “The Blair Commissions: Music for the 21st
Century,” allowing Blair to commission new works from important
composers for three of its signature ensembles, to be performed at
major national concert halls, as well as at Blair.
SIGNATURE SERIES
Craig Nies, piano
Carolyn Huebl, violin
MARCH
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29 30
Nies
Huebl
Sunday, March 29
8 p.m., Ingram Hall
THE MOZART SONATAS FOR PIANO AND VIOLIN
Pianist Nies and violinist Huebl, over the course of four
evenings throughout the 2014/15 concert season, perform
W. A. Mozart’s entire set of sixteen sonatas for piano
and violin. This is an incredible opportunity to hear
masterworks of the piano and violin literature performed
by these two master players. For this third installment,
they will perform Sonata in C Major, K. 296, Sonata in
E-flat Major, K. 380, Sonata in F Major, K. 547, and
Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 378.
Presented with gratitude to Barbara Engelhardt and
Justin Wilson and to the parents of a current student
for their generous support of the Blair School
SIGNATURE SERIES
Blair Woodwind Quintet
Monday, March 30
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
The Blair Woodwind Quintet presents a program that
combines classics of the literature with more recent
works, all designed to showcase the kaleidoscopic colors
of the ensemble. The quintet will present selections from
this program again in May in Berlin, Germany, as part
of Blair’s close relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra. Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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2007
2009
Collegiate performing ensemble Vanderbilt
University Orchestra, under the direction
of Robin Fountain, makes its first concert
tour of China.
The Blair Woodwind Quintet premieres
Peter Schicklele’s A Year in the Catskills as
part of the “Blair Commissions” project.
Blair Harp Ensemble
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Marian Shaffer, director
Thursday, April 2
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Blair’s harp students take center stage for an enchanting
musical evening showcasing the “sweetest of strings.”
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SIGNATURE SERIES
Blair Brass Quintet
Monday, April 6
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
The quintet performs a diverse brass program
including George Frideric Handel’s Arrival of the
Queen of Sheba, Jörg Widmann’s Three Canzoni,
Charles Whittenberg’s Little Fantasy on a Bach
Advent Chorale, John Stevens’s Urban Images,
Isaac Albéniz’s Asturias, and Douglas
Hill’s Timepieces.
Vanderbilt Steel Bands
Mat Britain, director
Tuesday, April 7
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
Kick your summer off with the sunny island
sounds of the Vanderbilt Steel Bands. Music from
Trinidad and other warm-water locales is sure
to put you in a Caribbean state of mind.
Flip-flops encouraged!
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2010
To better prepare its students for careers in a professional musical
landscape that is rapidly evolving, Blair unveils a revamped
collegiate curriculum that places more emphasis on chamber
music and the social and cultural context of the music studied,
along with writing-intensive music literature courses and a highly
participatory musicianship program.
The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet makes its first residency
at Blair. ALIAS Chamber Ensemble becomes a resident
professional ensemble of the school. The Blakemore Trio premieres
Susan Botti’s Gates of Silence at Blair and at New York’s Merkin
Concert Hall, as part of the Blair Commissions project.
Living Sounds
Sankofa
Wednesday, April 8
VANDERBILT’S AFRICAN DRUMMING
AND DANCE ENSEMBLE
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
New works by Blair’s composition majors, performed
by their peers. Always an engaging and highly eclectic
evening of music. Come hear the next generation of
classical composition!
Blair Big Band
APRIL
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8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
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Vanderbilt’s acclaimed African drumming and dance
ensemble is always a rollicking good time. Get some
rhythm in your weekend!
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Gyane Kwame Ahima, director
Saturday, April 11
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Ryan Middagh, director
22 23 25
Thursday, April 9
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
Presented with gratitude to an anonymous
graduate for generously supporting the Blair
Vanderbilt University
Orchestra
Blair Suzuki Violin
Performing Group
Robin Fountain, conductor
Carol Smith, director
Friday, April 10
and
Blair Children’s Cello Choir
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
The orchestra performs with the winners of the 2013
Vanderbilt Concerto Competition, who will be selected
at the competition finals in January. (See page 2 for details.)
Kirsten Cassel Greer, director
Sunday, April 12
2:30 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are free of charge and open to all audiences.
Dates subject to change. Please visit our website at blair.vanderbilt.edu for updated information.
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APRIL
2011
2012
2013
Martha Rivers Ingram steps down as
chairman of the KeyBoard, succeeded
by prominent Music Row attorney James H.
Harris III.
Blair formalizes a partnership with the
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
to work intensively with Blair students
every year, either at Vanderbilt’s Nashville
campus or at the Vanderbilt Music
Académie in Aix-en-Provence, France.
BMI takes title sponsorship of the
BMI Nightcap Concert Series,
which marries musical performance
with conversation in an informal but
structured setting.
FACULTY RECITAL
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Christina McGann, violin,
and Jingwen Tu, piano
Vanderbilt Symphonic Choir
and
Vanderbilt Oratorio
Orchestra
Tucker Biddlecombe, conductor
With Amy Jarman, soprano,
Thomas Mulder (Blair ’12), tenor,
and Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric baritone
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McGann
Tu
Monday, April 13
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Violinist Christina McGann makes her Blair School
concert debut with guest pianist Jingwen Tu for a
delightful duet program including Arnold Schoenberg’s
Fantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47, Robert Schumann’s
Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105, and Franz Schubert’s
Sonata in A Major, Op. posth. 162-D574.
Jarman
Mulder
Retzlaff
Tuesday, April 14
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
CREATION, BY FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
In the final student ensemble performance of this
academic year, Blair’s choral and orchestral forces
combine to perform arguably one of the greatest classical
masterworks ever composed: Creation, by Franz Joseph
Haydn. Sung in English, the text is derived from the
biblical account of Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
The audience will experience Haydn’s famous oratorio
through the simultaneous projection of video, artwork,
animation, and useful information intended to guide the
listener through the magnificent music. This multimedia
experience, featuring faculty, alumni, and student
soloists, will show deference to the biblical and cultural
significance of the text, as well as the humanistic and
scientific discoveries that have illuminated our universe
in ways we are only just beginning to understand.
Presented with gratitude to the Landis Gullett
Charitable Lead Trust for its generous support
of the Blair School
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Blair Student Chamber
Ensembles
Thursday, April 16
8:00 p.m.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
A musical potpourri for a mixture of chamber ensembles,
including string, woodwind, and brass instruments. Blair
collegiate students perform familiar masterworks as well
as rare and new chamber music gems.
SIGNATURE SERIES
Craig Nies, piano
Carolyn Huebl, violin
APRIL
SIGNATURE SERIES
The 12th Annual
Appalachian Celebration
Matt Combs, director
Saturday, April 18
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
This annual hoedown features Blair’s folk and
instrumental performance faculty and plenty of surprise
guests from the Nashville music industry. Come for the
unexpected, stay for the joy of our region’s finest folk
music, performed by some of the very best players in
the country.
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This concert is a benefit for the Jerome “Butch” Baldassari
Precollege Scholarship Fund at the Blair School of Music.
Donations will be accepted at the door, but are not required
Friday, April 17
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
Nies
Huebl
THE MOZART SONATAS FOR PIANO AND VIOLIN
Pianist Nies and violinist Huebl, over the course of four evenings
throughout the 2014/15 concert season, perform W. A. Mozart’s
entire set of sixteen sonatas for piano and violin. This is an
incredible opportunity to hear masterworks of the piano and violin
literature performed by these two master players. For this final
installment, they will perform Sonata in F Major, K. 376, Sonata in
A Major, K. 305, Sonata in E Minor, K. 304, and Sonata
in A Major, K. 526.
Presented with gratitude to Barbara Engelhardt and Justin
Wilson and to the parents of a current student for their
generous support of the Blair School
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FACULTY RECITAL
TICKETED EVENT
Allan Cox,
trumpet
Nashville Jazz Orchestra
With Maeve Brophy,
Hildegard Cox, and
Karen Ann Krieger, piano
Tuesday, April 21
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
An evening of trumpet and piano, including Allan
Gilliland’s Concerto for Trumpet and Piano, John
Stevens’s Autumn (the third movement of his first brass
quintet, arranged for solo trumpet and piano), David
Gillingham’s When Speaks the Signal-Trumpet Tone,
and Franz Liszt's Don Juan Fantasy.
Presented with gratitude to Melissa and
Scot Hollmann for their generous support of
the Blair School
Jim Williamson, director
Saturday, April 25
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
Five-time Grammy-winning bassist Victor Wooten joins
the NJO for its Blair School final concert of the season.
Tickets: $20 adults; $15 seniors (65+) and
Vanderbilt faculty and staff; free for students
with ID. Tickets available at the door.
Suzuki Cello Graduation
and Festival Concert
Anne Hall Williams and Kirsten Cassel Greer, directors
Saturday, April 25
1:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Suzuki Violin Graduation
and Festival Concert
Carol Smith, director
Saturday, April 25
3:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Blair Precollege Program
Scholarship Recitals
Wednesday, April 22
Thursday, April 23
6:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 25
5:00 p.m.
Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Blair’s finest precollege students present a varied program
of solo works for strings, brass, woodwinds, piano, harp,
voice, and percussion.
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Curb Youth
Symphony
and
Philharmonia
Carol Nies, director
Monday, May 4
7:30 p.m., Ingram Hall
Presented with gratitude to the Valere Blair Potter
Trust for its generous support of the Blair School
MAY
Nashville Youth Repertory Orchestra
Craig Madole, director
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Youth Strings Orchestras, Reading Orchestra,
and Beginning Reading Orchestra
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Celeste Tuten, director
Tuesday, May 5
7:30 p.m., Ingram Hall
Presented with gratitude to the Valere Blair Potter Trust for its generous support
of the Blair School
Vanderbilt Community
Chorus
David Binns Williams, director
Saturday, May 9
8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
The Vanderbilt Community Chorus celebrates its fifteenth
anniversary with a special retrospective program
showcasing the choir’s favorite musical moments since
its founding in 2000.
Blair Children’s Choruses
Tucker Biddlecombe and Mary Biddlecombe, directors
TICKETED EVENT
Sunday, May 10
ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
2:00 p.m., Ingram Hall
8:00 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall
Featuring the Blair Children’s Concert Choir, Young Men’s
Chorus, Chorale, Blair Choristers, Nashville Boychoir, and
Training Choir
Eric Ewazen, Ballade, Pastorale, and Dance for horn,
flute, and piano
Presented with gratitude to the Valere Blair Potter
Trust for its generous support of the Blair School
Wednesday, May 6
Andy Akiho, Ligneous 1, for string quartet and percussion
John Marvin, Trio for oboe, English horn, and piano
(world premiere)
Jennifer Higdon, Piano Trio
ALIAS finishes its 2014/15 season with its most eclectic
program yet. Jennifer Higdon’s piano trio sits alongside
rarely heard works by Eric Ewazen and Andy Akiho, as
well as a world premiere trio by John Marvin for oboe,
English horn, and piano. ALIAS’ audiences can always
expect the unexpected!
Tickets: $20 adults; $5 students with ID;
free for Blair students with ID.
All proceeds from this concert benefit homeless advocacy
organization Safe Haven.
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Concert Series Information
Seating
Ushers And House Management
All seating, unless otherwise indicated, is general
admission. Seats in both Ingram and Turner Halls are
available on a first-come, first-served basis. Hall doors
generally open 30 minutes before concert time or at the
discretion of the stage manager.
Blair is assisted with any seating needs by a professional
house management team, and ushering services are
provided by the women of Sigma Alpha Iota music
fraternity.
Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the ushers.
The facilities are wheelchair accessible, and hearing
devices are available upon request. For special needs
accommodations, contact the concert manager or
technical director at 322-7651.
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Children’s Hospital
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Parking Information
Complimentary valet parking is available for many Blair
School events, provided by the men of Phi Mu Alpha
music fraternity.
For self-parking, Blair School of Music concertgoers are
encouraged to park in the West Garage, directly across
Children’s Way from the main entrance to the school.
West Garage is open to Blair School patrons all day on
weekends and after 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.
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is available on a first-come, first-served basis, as spaces
are available.
Important note: You may NOT park in the lots on either
side of the Blair School of Music (lots 103 and 104) at ANY
time. These are university-owned lots, and only vehicles
with the appropriate Vanderbilt-issued parking permit may
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days a week, and violators will be ticketed and/or towed.
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