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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1976)
Warm music for those cool nights The University Schooi of Music will be presenting student and fa culty recitals and guest artist ap pearances several nights a week in Beall Hall throughout the sum mer. The performances, generally free, feature a variety of instru ments including violin, flute, clarinet, cello, piano, instrumental ensembles and vocalists. The musicians perform works by such great composers as Mozart, Cho pin, Bach and Brahms. -A in addition to students and fa culty recitals, the music school will offer concerts by high school stu dents in attendance at their sum mer session. These concerts, under the direction of outstanding University music faculty and visit ing artists, will be presented by ensembles of high school in strumentalists and vocalists on the evenings of July 2 and July 3. Highlighting the musical calen dar at Beall Hall this summer will be the seventh Annual Summer Festival of Music featuring Pre mier German conductor Helmuth Rilling. Rilling, one of Europe's foremost choral conductors, has appeared this year alone in Israel, Japan, France, Belgium, Switzer land, the United States and his na tive Germany. Rilling will direct three work shop choirs this summer. The choirs will be composed of profes sional artists, singers and in strumentalists from 25 states, Canada and Germany. The 90-voice Festival Chorus will per form major choral works by Brahms and Verdi; a 40-voice Chamber Choir, the motets of Bach and works by David and Zimmermann. Rilling will also supervise the BLUE HERON cafe A COMplETE (Mi MENU plus fi(ME COffEE & TEAS, ESpRESSO AN<J pASTRiES & dESSERTS C?/ mt* put Juuty ' <7 Hallmark Eaton Montag Boxed "Shrink-wrapped foldovers many styles */2 price Stationery Others reduced % or more Page 14 Section A advanced con ducting stu dents in the di rection of a 60-voice Bach cantata choir. A world-acclaimed authority on Bach, Rilling has been hailed by the London Arts Guardian as "a resilient Bach interpreter." ■ ■ An instru mental ensem ble of 60 musi cians will per form in the fes tival orchestra. Appearing as soloists with the festival choirs will be the University music school faculty James Miller, Leslie Breidenthal, Neil Wilson and Dorothy Ber quist, as well as many nation ally known guest artists. These include professional performers and recording ar tists Katheryn Bouleyn, Wil liam Harness, Douglas Thomas Paul, Delcina and Beverly Wolff. Lawrence, Stevenson Heinz Werner Zimmerman, di rector of the Berlin School of Sac red Music, has composed a spe cially commissioned work for the 1976 festival. Zimmermann's Psalm 130 is a commemoration of the United States Bicentennial. It will premier in a performance by the Festival Chamber Choir Sun Photo by Palat Grant day, July 11, at 8:30 p.m. Festival Senes tickets covering admission to the six evening con certs are $30, $20 and $15 Single admission tickets for the Verdi “Requiem" and the Brahms "German Requiem" are $7.50, $5, and $3. Tickets will also be sold for dress rehearsals of these works. They are $1 50 each, with no reserved seating Tickets for all other concerts are $5, $3 50 and $2 50 by Patty Durocher I EUGENE TRAVEL 831 E. 13th 687-2823 MartebellaS Welcome Students to Eugene Come on down to our shop for our summer clearance sale 25-75% off '"i 10th and Olive in the Atrium Monday, June 21, 1976
