Music department offers six concerts April 27--May 3

As the semester winds down, the Cornell Department of Music presents a busy schedule of six free concerts this week.

Tonight, April 27, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium, the Cornell Chamber Singers, conducted by Dimitri Shapovalov, presents a varied program featuring six sacred and secular works from the Renaissance and three from the 20th century.

The first half of the concert features madrigals by Desprez, Dowland, Morley, Farmer and Orlando di Lasso, as well as William Byrd's "Ave verum corpus." Following intermission, guest ensemble Vox Turturis presents selections from music of the late Medieval period. The concert closes with two sacred pieces by Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud's "Quatrains valaisans" and Samuel Barber's "Reincarnations."

The Cornell University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Mark Davis Scat-terday, presents a concert of six works Saturday, April 29, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. On the program are Adam Gorb's "Awayday," Gustav Holst's "Hammersmith," Anthony Iannaconne's "Seadrift," Andrea Gabrieli's "Aria della battaglia," Joseph Schwantner's "In the Evening Stillness" and Michael Daugherty's "Niagara Falls."

On Sunday, April 30, at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall, the Cornell University Symphonic Band, led by conductor David Conn, presents a concert of works for wind band featuring Alfred Reed's "Armenian Dances," a piece by Howard Hanson, Shostakovich's "Folk Dances" and Santiago Lope's "Gallito."

Cornell pianist Xak Bjerken and Bulgarian-born violinist Vesselin Gellev will give a concert Monday, May 1, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. On the program are Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata, Bartók's Sonata No. 1 and Brahms' Scherzo. Last year, Gellev, who is studying at Juilliard, enthralled a Barnes Hall audience with his artistic and technical virtuosity.

Soprano Judith Kellock has invited pianist Will Crutchfield to return to Ithaca to present an evening of Schubert lieder Tuesday, May 2, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall.

The final concert for the week is a joint student recital Wednesday, May 3, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. Soprano Kim Aya Murray and baritone Ian Woolford, both students of Rebecca Ferguson, will be assisted by pianists Blaise Bryski and Dee-Pong Lu. The first half of the program opens with a duet, Saint-Saëns' "Pastorale," followed by Murray singing four songs of Gabriel Fauré and Woolford presenting five movements from Vaughan Williams' "Songs of Travel." The second half opens with two arias and a duet from "Le Nozze di Figaro" and two Handel arias. The vocalists close with a set of four numbers from the musical theater repertoire.