The Cornell University Chorus presents its annual Twilight Concert in Sage Chapel on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 5 p.m. Part of the university's Family Weekend activities, the concert features music for women's voices, including works by Brahms, Victoria and Hovland, as well as traditional Cornell songs. A subset of the Chorus, After Eight, performs one set of selections to round out the program.
Admission to the concert is $6 in advance and $7 at the door. Tickets are available at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office (255-3430) and through the chorus office (255-2324).
Founded in 1921 as the Cornell Women's Glee Club, the Cornell University Chorus has a tradition of excellence formed by high standards of musical achievement and versatility from across the university. Under the direction of Scott Tucker since 1995, the Chorus has a repertoire ranging from Renaissance motets to the works of Samuel Barber, from the lamenting love songs of Schumann to Hungarian folk songs.
In addition to its constantly changing and increasing selection of women's music, the Chorus also performs major works with the Cornell University Glee Club, such as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah and Bach's Mass in B Minor. Most recently, the Chorus collaborated with renowned musician Samite of Uganda, participated in a production of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light with Anonymous 4 and performed several major works with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.
Tucker is associate professor and director of choral music at Cornell, where he has conducted the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club since 1995. He also oversees the activities of the Cornell Chorale, Chamber Singers and Sage Chapel Choir and serves as the director of undergraduate studies for the Department of Music. In addition, he teaches courses in music theory and conducting. Prior to coming to Cornell, Tucker was choral director of Milton Academy, whose Chamber Singers toured the United States and Kenya. In addition to his work at Milton, Tucker was affiliated with choral music at Harvard University, where, from 1987 to 1993, he served as assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus.
Tucker received a master of music degree in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1986, a bachelor of music degree in trumpet performance from the New England Conservatory in 1981 and a bachelor of science degree from Tufts University, also in 1981.
Also part of Family Weekend festivities, the Cornell University Wind Symphony presents "A Space Odyssey" Saturday, Nov. 3, at 8:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Conductors Mark Davis Scatterday and David Conn lead the Wind Symphony in a free concert featuring music with an intergalactic theme, including selections from Gustav Holst's The Planets and John Williams' film score to Star Wars, as well as Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, popularly known as the theme from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Wind Ensemble also performs Pale Blue Dot, an homage to Carl Sagan, written by Cornell alumnus Stephen Taylor.
Currently director of wind ensembles, professor of music and chair of Cornell's Department of Music, Scatterday conducts the university's four Wind Ensembles, Festival Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble X and teaches conducting and music theory. Having received his doctorate in conducting at the Eastman School of Music in 1989, Scatterday has directed wind ensembles and orchestras throughout North America and Japan and has commissioned several new works. He is senior editor of WindWorks, a Warner Bros. publication dealing with new compositions and transcriptions, research and performance practice for the wind band. Warner Bros. also has published his compilation and edition of 10 early instrumental works by Gabrieli, Padovano and Viadana titled Renaissance Set I as part of the Donald Hunsberger Wind Library.
Associate director of wind ensembles and lecturer in music, Conn conducts the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band and Chamber Winds, teaches music theory and is a member of Ensemble X. He holds a bachelor's degree in performance from Boston University and a master's degree in conducting from Middle Tennessee State University
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