The Department of Music and the Ithaca Opera Association, with support from the Cornell Council for the Arts, will team up to present an evening of music by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) Feb. 7 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. Edward Murray will conduct.
The central work on the program is de Falla's Master Peter's Puppet Show, an opera with chamber orchestra. The three singers include Cornell doctoral candidates Lisa Diamond and Gary Moulsdale and Tri-Cities Opera baritone Scott La Graff.
Former Cornell faculty member and current Temple University professor Joyce Lindorff will perform the Harpsichord Concerto. Soprano Judith Kellock, a Cornell associate professor of music, will perform Seven Popular Spanish Songs, and Tri-Cities opera mezzo-soprano Kimberly La Graff will sing Psyché, scored for voice and flute, harp and strings.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and are available at the Ticket Center at Clinton House, Hickey's Music Center and at the door.
Also on the concert calendar this week is a performance by the new chamber ensemble Concertino Armonico, which will present an evening of music from the German Baroque courts, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall.
Geoffrey Burgess and Owen Watkins on Baroque oboes and recorders and harpsichordist Peter Watchorn will play the music of Bach, Telemann and Fasch.
Burgess, a Cornell doctoral student in music, has performed with orchestras and ensembles throughout Europe and the United States. He has recently recorded a solo CD of the music of Bach.
Watkins has performed with many of the leading Baroque ensembles and orchestras in the United States, including the Boston Camerata, Boston Baroque and the Washington Bach Consort.
Watchorn is widely known as a solo recitalist and harpsichordist with numerous chamber and orchestral ensembles, in addition to being an experienced harpsichord builder. In 1985 he was awarded first prize in the Erwin Bodky Competition for his performance of the music of Bach. He is on the faculty of the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin Conservatory and is the harpsichord teacher at Mather House, Harvard University.
If one's appetite for Bach still isn't satiated, pianists Malcolm Bilson, the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music, Xak Bjerken and Blaise Briski will perform the complete Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 2) by Bach over the course of two evenings, Feb. 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. The Well-Tempered Clavier is composed of two books, each containing 24 preludes and fugues; for each step of the 12-note chromatic scale, there are two pieces, one in major, the other in minor.
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