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Friday December 7, 2007
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Come hear the Newton String Quartet, a young and talented Columbia-based ensemble, as they perform three beloved masterpieces from the String Quartet repertoire.

Program:
Mozart String Quartet No. 19 in C Major "Dissonance", K. 465
Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat, op. 74 "Harp"
Debussy String Quartet in G minor, op. 11

The Newton String Quartet: Emily Smith and Gabriel Lefkowitz,
violins, Izia Weyman, viola, and Jude Tedaldi, cello.
Saturday December 8, 2007
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm


John Thompson, Gu Qin with Festivitas Artium Schola

Special performance by Zhang Hong Yan, Pipa

Made possible through a generous gift from David and Susie Sainsbury
Sponsored by Sounds of China the Center for Ethnomusicology.

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm

Program:
Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson
Second Suite in F - Gustav Holst
Blue Shades - Frank Ticheli
Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed
Wedding Dance - J. Press

Free Admission! 

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:30 pm

Stravinsky Mass & Bruckner Te Deum

$10 adults, $5 students and seniors

Sunday December 9, 2007
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Featuring chamber music from students in the Music Performance Program!

Ensembles include the New York Gagaku Ensemble and others.

Full list of performers TBA.

**Students in classical chamber ensembles of the Music Performance Program are required to perform in and attend at least one end of semester concert. For those involved in private classical lessons, attendance is strongly suggested and we'd love to see you there!***

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:30 pm

Carl Maria von Weber - Overture to Oberon
W. A. Mozart - Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Free admission  

Monday December 17, 2007
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:30 pm

Kee Yong Chong – Metamorphosis I, for harp and viola


Gerard Grisey – Vortex Temporum I and II, which Jean-Luc Herve
called the most influential composition of our generation


Fabien Levy - Small Treatise of Love and Geometry, a microtonal work
for winds, brass, and strings featuring musical techniques inspired
by ornamental patterns in Islamic visual art.

Free admission. 

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