Department of Music announces November concerts

The Department of Music will present throughout the month of November programs ranging from enduringly popular classical music to experimental contemporary selections.

The month's performances will begin with a faculty recital featuring Cheryl Priebe Bishkoff, oboe, with Maria de los Angeles Rivera, piano. They will perform works by César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten and others at 8 p.m. today in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus. Tickets are $5.

The Cassatt String Quartet will perform the second of six concerts in the 44th annual presentation of the complete cycle of Beethoven String Quartets at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Slee. Tickets are $12, $9 and $5. The performance by UB's Slee Quartet-in-Residence will feature Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 ("Harp"); Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2, and Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131.

The Department of Music will present "Platero y yo" at 3 p.m. Sunday in Baird Recital Hall on the North Campus. Tickets are $5. The program will be performed in Spanish, its original language, by narrator Pilar Garcia and guitarist David Sussman.

Electro-acoustic music will be celebrated at a SEAMUS Week Concert-in honor of the Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States-to be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Baird. Admission will be free.

World-renowned violinist Movses Pogossian will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 12 in Slee. Tickets are $5. The celebrated performer will present a program of solo violin pieces by J.S. Bach, including Sonata No. 1 in G Minor BWV 1001, Partita No. 3 in E Major BWV 1006 and Partita No. 2 in D Minor BWV 1004. Pogossian's concert will be preceded by a master class to be held in Slee. Admission to the master class will be free.

The UB Percussion Ensemble will perform with special guests Gordon Stout, marimba, and Cheryl Gobetti-Hoffman, flute, at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 in Slee. Admission will be free. The performance will be directed by Anthony Miranda.

A lecture titled "Cesti, Orontea, Composition and Production" will be given by Jennifer Williams Brown of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester at 4 p.m. Nov. 18 in 211 Baird. The program will be free.

The UB Symphony and UB Chorus will perform Fauré's Requiem at 8 p.m. Nov. 18 in Slee. Tickets are $3. Conductor will be renowned choral director Harold Rosenbaum.

The Slee/Visiting Artist Series, Concert III will feature a performance by the Cassatt String Quartet with mezzo-soprano Melissa Thorburn at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 in Slee. Tickets are $12, $9 and $5. The program will feature Hayden's Quartet in D Major, Op. 76; Earl Kim's "Three Poems in French," and Mendelssohn's Quartet in A minor, Op. 13.

The UB Music Theatre Workshop, formerly the Opera Workshop, will present a completely unique performance featuring the work of musical philosopher and mycologist John Cage at two programs to be held at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Nov. 20 in the Black Box Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus. Tickets are $10 and $5, and seating is limited. Directed by Nicholas Isherwood, the production will feature excerpts from Cage's work, "Song Books," in which audience members will eat mushrooms and wander between singers, actors and dancers.