‘A Contemporary Mosaic’
In its 2005 festival, the School of Music presents
a week's worth of mostly contemporary music
BY NATASHA CHILINGERIAN
SENIOR PULSE REPORTER
The School of Music is currently
presenting a week's worth of new
music with exciting guest artists in
"A Contemporary Mosaic," the 2005
Music Today Festival. The perform
ances began Wednesday and will
continue through Feb. 23.
Soprano vocalist and Broadway
actress Ann Crumb appeared
Wednesday night in Beall Hall to
perform classical pieces composed
by her father, George, and her broth
er, David, as well as jazz pieces.
"It's a very special concert that
highlights the creative music-making
of the Crumb family," Music Today
Festival Director Robert Kyr said.
Tonight, School of Music faculty
members — including violinists,
flutists, pianists and percussionists
— will present an evening of Ameri
can music. Music professor Anne
Dhu McLucus said the concertwas
designed with members of the Soci
ety for American Music in mind, who
are in town this week for a confer
ence and will attend the show.
"It came together in a nice way,"
McLucus said. "It's a lovely mixture
of things. There will be less
r
well-known pieces that people will
be interested to hear, but people
who know American music will
know the names of the composers."
On Friday, composer and accor
dion player Pauline Oliveros, whom
the Society of American Music chose
as its honorary member of the year,
will perform an avant-garde show on
the electric accordion. She led two
"Deep Listening Workshops" Tues
day and Wednesday, where she
taught participants to hear in new
ways, and she will lead a lecture,
demonstration and discussion today
in Beall Hall from 1 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.
"She is one of the leading avant
garde composers today," School of
Music publicity director Scott
Barkhurstsaid. "The show will in
clude audience improvisation, and
it's quite out of the box."
Other shows setforthe remainder
of the festival include the Santa Fe
Quartet on Saturday, a South Ameri
can and Latin American musical
group; the Eugene Composers Collec
tive on Sunday, a casual four-hour
show of local composers and musi
cians; the Balinese percussion or
chestra Pacific Rim Gamelan on Mon
day; three faculty string musicians of
Trio Pacifica on Tuesday; and Ben
jamin Bagby's "Beowulf," an evening
of medieval melodies and vocals that
tell the classic tale "Beowulf," which
will wrap up the festival.
With the exception of Trio Pacifi
ca, all musicians will perform con
temporary music, or music recently
created by living composers. Kyr
said current contemporary music is
extremely diverse in styles and
places of origination.
"In terms of musical styles, the
21st century has expanded our vo
cabulary in exciting new ways," Kyr
said. "Today, composers are creat
ing musical works that combine
many different influences from
around the world."
McLucus added thatthe festival
will teach audiences how beautiful
American music can be.
"People thinkthat Europe is the
place to go for music," she said. "For
people around town, the concerts
will open their ears."
Tickets range in price from $2 to $9
and are available at the Beall Hall Box
Office one hour priorto showtimes.
All shows begin at8 p.m. in Beall Hall,
with the exception of the Eugene
Composers Collective, which begins
at 7 p.m. at Cozmic Pizza. For more in
formation, call 346-5678.
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level classes for the community are available at $75 each. A “season ticket”
for all six seminars saves $75. Books are available through the UO Bookstore.
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LIFE OF THE MIND
February 26,10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
A one-day seminar designed to resuscitate the reading and thinking habits of
adults. Based on David Denhy’s hook, Grunt Hooks, about going hack to college
as an adult. A great introduction to the other seminars. $35
THE RAGE OF ACHILLES
March 5,12,19, 26, 9:30 a.m.-noon
The first and still the greatest book about war
is Homer’s Iliad, the epic of warrior culture.
You will love it as an adult, even if you didn't
as a student. As hair-raising and relevant as
the daily news, this is the foundation of the
West’s thinking about war. $75
CULTURE OF TOLERANCE
April 2, 9,16, 23, 9:30 a.m.-noon
Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews
and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance
in Medieval Spain was a surprise bestseller in
2002. What is more timely to learn about than
Islam, and tolerance? A highly enjoyable book
about the history and literature of Jews and
Muslims in medieval Spain. $75
VIKINGS
April 30, May 7,14, 21,9:30 a.m.-noon
Njal’s Saga is the epic story of Iceland’s great
est lawyer, a man of peace in a culture of vio- 1
lence—an authentic and absorbing portrait of
Viking life written in the 13th century. How
do you break the vicious cycle of revenge,
when it is the law? $75
BAND OF BROTHERS
lune 4,11,18, 25, 9:30 a.in.-noon
Shakespeare’s Henry Vpresents the Hundred
Vears War. Olivier’s stirring 1945 film ver
sion rallied wartime England, but Branagh’s
1989 film is anti-war. Shakespeare: pro- and
inti-war at the same time? Read the play and
watch the films. $75
>VAR AND PEACE
uly 9,16, 23, 30, 9:30 a.m.-noon
t is time—at last—to read Tolstoy’s great
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MAHATMA GANDHI
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dolence from Gandhi. Read Gandhi’s auto
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