UAA Department of Music holds a dress rehearsal for its annual Symphony of Sounds performance in the UAA Fine Arts Recital Hall. Spring 2023. Photo courtesy of James Evans/UAA.
The Department of Music at UAA has a full schedule lined up for the upcoming semester. The music department has a wide variety of performances, ranging from early period music and classical guitar to solo voice recitals and choirs. There will also be a classical guitar concert by UAA professor Armin Abdihodzic playing on Oct. 21. In an email to The Northern Light, he wrote that his work will be “a nice trip through the 20th century of Spanish and Latin American classical guitar music,” with works from Spanish, Cuban, Argentinian and Venezuelan composers.
There will be two early period music shows in November. “Romantic Reverie” will be on Nov. 11 with Romantic guitar trio music, and on Nov. 19, students and faculty will perform in a free concert of Baroque period instruments which include Baroque guitar and violin, sometimes harpsichord and an early cello called viola de gamba.
On Sunday Nov. 12, Mari Hahn will be performing “Mandela of Song” with UAA music professor Timothy Smith. Hahn said that she and Smith will be performing for the first time in over 20 years. The recital was Smith’s idea.
Hahn said that she chose the theme of “mandala” because “for some, mandala is a vehicle of transformation. The concept of ‘mandala’ is about being present when everything around you is transient.”
Her selection is broken up into parts – starting in childhood and morphing into a theme of “losing one’s mind.” The topic is heavy, but the material is about the impermanence of everything.
Members of the UAA Jazz Ensemble and voice majors will practice improvisation for a week with retired UAA music professor Karen Strid-Chadwick. On Nov. 18, they will present “The Great American Songbook: A Concert of Jazz Songs.”
Their genre is called “Great American Songbook” with their performance website describing the pieces as “Standards made famous by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall and Michael Buble."
On Dec. 8, the UAA Voice Majors will present “Broadway Bound,” a concert with Broadway hits.
Is money tight? The UAA Department of Music will be offering a few free concerts. One of these is scheduled for on Nov. 19, whenJohn Lutterman will be directing “Early Music Ensemble,” and – as the semester winds down – there will be class recitals and ensembles.
To purchase tickets and see schedules, go to the Department of Music’s Facebook page and see the pinned posts.
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