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Recitals are subject to change--please
call 805-756-2406 to confirm recital dates, times, and locations
Friday, October 19
University Jazz Band #1 Swing Dance
“Swing in the Colony”
4-7 p.m., Atascadero Lake Pavilion
www.swinginthecolony.com
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Saturday, October 27
University Jazz Band #1 at Jubilee by the Sea, Pismo Beach
5:30-6:30 p.m., 8-9 p.m., and 9:15-10:15 p.m., Addie Street parking lot at the ocean
www.pismojazz.com
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Saturday, October 27
Cal Poly Choirs' “Debut” Concert
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Exceptional choral works for organ and a variety of instrumental forces. Cal Poly organist, Paul Woodring, will display the marvelous sounds of the Forbes Pipe Organ as PolyPhonics, The University Singers, and the Early Music Ensemble present inspirational music for voices and organ. In addition, Cal Poly’s highly entertaining barbershop quartets will perform, as well as outstanding student soloists. More on the Choirs' Debut Concert
tickets ($13 & $15 general/$12 & $14 seniors/$8 students)
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Saturday, November 3
Junior Recital: Chloe Gill, soprano
3 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Thursday, November 8
“Looking for the Light”: A Lecture-Demonstration on the Life and Music of Harpsichordist Maria Theresia von Paradis. Presented by music faculty member India D'Avignon.
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
Read details on the lecture-demonstration
FREE
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Saturday, November 10
University Jazz Band #1 Performance
Alumni Homecoming BBQ and Wine Tasting
1-4 p.m., O'Neill Green (near Cotchett Education Building), Cal Poly
For tickets information, visit the Cal Poly Homecoming Web page at http://homecoming.calpoly.edu
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Tuesday, November 13
Piano Student Recital
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Thursday, November 15
Instrumental Student Recital
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Thursday, November 15
Vocal Student Recital
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Friday, November 16
University Jazz Band #2 Performance
Seniors’ Potluck
6:15-7 p.m., Veterans’ Hall, 209 Surf St., Morro Bay
For more info., e-mail jbrechle@calpoly.edu
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Friday, November 16
Senior Vocal Recital: Carolyn Jorstad, mezzo-soprano
8 p.m., Mt. Carmel Lutheran Church
FREE
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Saturday, November 17
Bandfest '07 "Out of this World "
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Cal Poly Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble & Pride of the Pacific Mustang Marching Band
Enduring, inspired, uplifting, “out of this world”…those are the words to describe this season’s opener. Prepare for an evening of enchantment as over 200 collegiate wind and percussion musicians bring you some of the most powerful wind band compositions ever written. Don’t miss this spectacular season opener.
• Robert W. Smith’s Symphony No.1, The Divine Comedy
• Hardy Mertens’ Winanga-Li
• Wong Kah Chun’s Warrior’s Dream
• Frank Ticheli’s Vesuvius
• Richard Wagner’s Huldigungsmarsch
• Ron Nelson’s Rocky Point Holiday
• Stephen Melillo’s Cuba
In addition…the Pride of the Pacific Mustang Marching Band, all decked out in new uniforms, will fill the hall with its dazzling arrangements performed at halftime in Spanos Stadium.
More on the Bandfest concert
tickets ($16 & $19 general/$13 & $15 seniors/$8 & $11 students)
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Sunday, November 18
Cal Poly Symphony Fall Concert featuring the Amelia Piano Trio
3 p.m., Cohan Center
The Cal Poly Symphony begins its new season with a new collaboration and new music! The Amelia Piano Trio, known nationally for its championing of new music and its energetic work with young musicians, will give the West Coast premiere of Daron Hagen’s “Orpheus and Eurydice: Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra.” Called “remarkable” by String Magazine and “exemplary” by Strad, the trio’s short history includes performances from Carnegie Hall to Seattle’s Meany Hall, and tours of Central Asia with Yo Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble. Composer Daron Hagen’s premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra made him the youngest composer since Samuel Barber to work with that prestigious orchestra. The Washington Post sums it up: “A composer who can crystallize a moment in musical magic is a rarity. Expect to hear more of Hagen.”
The Symphony will also perform Beethoven’s powerful Fifth Symphony.
More on the Symphony's concert
tickets ($10 & $12 general/$8 & $10 seniors/$6 students)
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Thursday, November 29
Instrumental Student Recital
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Friday,
November 30
Cal Poly University Jazz Bands' Fall Jazz Concert
8 p.m., Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre
An eclectic mix of jazz standards and modern compositions that will be performed by Cal Poly’s
University Jazz Bands #1 and #2 and the Cal Poly Jazz Combos.
More on the Fall Jazz Concert
tickets ($10 general/$8 seniors and Jazz Federation members/$6 students)
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Saturday, December 1
Cal Poly Choirs' "A Christmas Celebration" Concert
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Buy your tickets early for our annual holiday gift spectacular, “A Christmas Celebration.” The Cal Poly Choirs will premiere a new work for chorus and the Forbes Pipe Organ, composed by Cal Poly Music Professor Meredith Brammeier. Also included will be holiday favorites from our barbershop quartets and a carol sing-a-long to put you in the spirit of the season.
tickets ($17 & $20 general/$16 & $19 seniors/$10 students)
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Friday,
January 11
Music Faculty Recital: W. Terrence Spiller, Piano
8 p.m., Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre
Concert pianist and chair of the Music Department W. Terrence Spiller will perform Robert Schumann’s “Arabesque in C Major,” Op. 18, and “Fantasy in C Major,” Op. 17, followed by Francis Poulenc’s “Les Soirées de Nazelles.” The program will conclude with Rachmaninoff’s “Liebeslied” and “Liebesfreud”—transcriptions of pieces by the great violinist Fritz Kreisler.
tickets
($10 general/$6 seniors and students)
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Friday, January 18
University Jazz Band #1 Swing Dance
8:30-midnight, Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 East Carrillo St., Santa Barbara (free dance lessons at 7:30 p.m.)
For more info., call 805-897-2519
tickets
($12 general/$10 students)
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Saturday, January 26
Cal Poly Early Music Ensemble Concert
8 p.m., Pavilion, Cohan Center
“The Triumphs of Oriana”
The Cal Poly Early Music Ensemble will perform a set of exquisite madrigals, composed in honor of Queen Elizabeth I. Conductor Thomas Davies will lecture on their historical significance and compositional style.
tickets ($10 general, $8 seniors and students)
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Tuesday, January 29
Piano Student Recital
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Saturday,
February 9
"A Night at the Mission" Benefit Chamber Concert
8 p.m., Old Mission
Church, San Luis Obispo
“A Night at the Mission” has become a popular traditional concert in our annual series of performances. Once again Cal Poly invites you to a beautiful evening of music performed by its chamber ensembles in the Old Mission Church. Performing at this event will be the Wind Quintet, Saxophone Quartet, Horn Ensemble, Clarinet Ensemble, Brass Quintet, Trombone Choir and Brass Choir.
tickets
($10 general and $8 seniors and students)
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Friday, February 22
"An Evening of American Song"
8 p.m., Pavilion, Cohan Center
Katherine Arthur, soprano, and Susan Azaret Davies, piano, will perform two great American works: Aaron Copland’s “Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson” and Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” poem by James Agee. Also included on the program will be the premiere of songs composed by Kenneth S. Habib, set to poems by E.E. Cummings, as well as timeless American favorites!
tickets ($10 general, $8 seniors and students)
Saturday, February 23
University Jazz Bands' Just Jazz Concert
8 p.m., Cohan Center
An eclectic mix of jazz standards and modern compositions that will be performed by the University Jazz Bands #1 and #2 and the Cal Poly Jazz Combos.
tickets ($12 & 15 general/$10 & 13 seniors and Jazz Federation members/$6 & $10 students)
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Saturday, March 1
Cal Poly Choirs' Winter Concert: “Something Old…Something New”
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Music of past masters will be united with two world premieres by Cal Poly Professors Antonio G. Barata and Craig H. Russell. Both will feature the new prize of the Performing Arts Center, the Forbes Pipe Organ.
tickets ($13 & $15 general/$12 & $14 seniors/$8 students)
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Thursday, March 6
Instrumental Student Recital
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Friday, March 7
Cal Poly Arab Music Ensemble Winter Concert
8 p.m., Pavilion, Cohan Center
Join the Arab Music Ensemble as singers and instrumentalists perform some of the best-known art and popular music of the Eastern Mediterranean and larger Middle East. Hear the traditional Arab melodic and rhythmic modes in the contexts of old and new genres on instruments including the `ud, qanun, nay, riqq, daff, and darabukka or tabla; as well as the violin, cello, bass, guitar, accordion, Latin percussion, and others. Topping off the performances are folkdance collaborations with San Luis Obispo’s own Middle Eastern dancers.
tickets ($10 general, $8 seniors and students)
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Friday, March 7
University Jazz Band Swing Dance
8 p.m., Chumash Auditorium
The public is invited to this dance concert featuring original swing-era tunes played by the Cal Poly University Jazz Band No. 1. The dance will be from 8 to 10:30 p.m. in Chumash Auditorium at Cal Poly. Free swing dance lessons will be given at 7 p.m. The University Jazz Band will perform authentic big-band classics, suitable for dancing or listening.
tickets ($10 general/$6 students) at the door (not available for multiple event discount)
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Saturday, March 8
Music Minor Recital: Jeremy Zwang-Weismann, percussion
6:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Sunday, March 9
Cal Poly Symphony Winter Concert: "Student Soloist Showcase"
3 p.m., Cohan Center
Come hear the winners of our annual student solo competition for a taste of Cal Poly students’ musical talent. The Symphony will also highlight music from ballet, including Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
tickets
($10 & $12 general/$8 & $10 seniors/$6 students)
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Thursday, March 13
Instrumental Student Recital
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Friday, March 14
Vocal Student Recital
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Saturday, March 15
Winter Concert: "Pomp & Pipes"
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Featuring Paul Woodring, organ, & the
Cal Poly Wind Orchestra & Wind Ensemble
Everything in this show uses the new Forbes Pipe Organ. With 2,767 pipes, this big baby moves a lot of wind. Then again, the guys & gals of the Cal Poly Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble have been known to move some air, too—and they’re always up for a challenge. So, we’re betting Paul Woodring is going to have to pull out every last stop just to keep up! Wind warnings have been posted.
• Richard Wagner’s Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral
• Alfred Reed’s Allelujah! Laudemus Te
• David Maslanka’s Symphony No. 4
• Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations
• Charles Ives’ Variations on America
• Siegfried Karg-Elert’s
Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals
• Percy Grainger’s
The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart
• Jaromir Weinberger’s “Polka and Fugue”
from Schwanda the Bagpiper
tickets ($16 & $19 general/$13 & $15 seniors/$8 & $11 students)
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Friday
and Saturday, April 11 and April 12
Scenes from Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus”
8 p.m., Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre
Members of Cal Poly’s Opera Workshop will perform scenes from the operetta by “waltz king” Johann Strauss, Jr. See how Gabriel von Eisenstein does not let his marriage to Rosalinde stand in the way of frequent dalliances with the lithe young ladies of the corps de ballet. On his way to serve a brief jail term for insulting a public official, Eisenstein attends Prince Orlofsky’s party, where he woos a glamorous Hungarian countess, who turns out to be none other than Rosalinde, seeking—and getting—her revenge for her husband’s indiscretions.
tickets
($10 general/$6 seniors and students)
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Tuesday, April 17
"The Business of Music" Lecture by George Nauful
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
Nauful will share insights into the various types of record deals, artist contracts, royalties, artist rights and record company practices from both the artist's and label’s perspectives. He will also discuss the changing landscape of music distribution and the industry at large. A question and answer session will follow.
Nauful is a record producer, label owner and former studio musician. He is an owner of SMC Recordings, and is president of Mesa Bluemoon Recordings, both of which are distrubuted through Universal Music Group.
FREE
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Saturday,
April 19
Open House Concert:“The Stage! The Screen! The Ballet!”
Performances by the Cal Poly Symphony, Wind Ensemble, and University
Jazz Band
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Featuring the Cal Poly Symphony, Wind Ensemble, & University Jazz Band
After an exciting day at Cal Poly’s Open House, come enjoy an evening of live entertainment by three of the Music Department’s finest instrumental ensembles. Sit back, relax and let 100 university musicians take over. A must-see, must-hear…must-be-there concert! Works to be performed include Eric Whitacre’s Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, Paul Hart’s Cartoon, and Johan Wagenaar’s Taming of the Shrew.
tickets ($16 & $19 general/$13 & $15 seniors/$8 & $11 students)
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Sunday, April
20
All-State Festival Concert
Featuring the Festival Wind Orchestra,
String Orchestra, and Jazz Band
2:30 p.m., Cohan Center
One hundred and eighty of the state’s finest young musicians are chosen by recorded audition to participate in this spectacular Open House event. These young people may still be in high school, but they don’t sound like it. They are the future of music in America and will perform like young professionals with their world-class conductors. Come and enjoy a Sunday afternoon of musical excitement in Harman Hall.
Guitarist Bruce Forman will be the guest soloist/conductor for the Festival Jazz Band. He has been featured as leader as well as sideman at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and concert venues. His recording and performing credits include Bobby Hutcherson, Ray Brown, Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson. His work is featured in Clint Eastwood’s Academy Award-winning film, Million Dollar Baby.
Conducting the Festival Wind Orchestra will be Laszlo Marosi. Marosi was born in Sarvar, Hungary. He has made appearances throughout the world as guest conductor, lecturer and adjudicator. For his contributions to Hungarian contemporary music, he was twice awarded the Artisjus prize by the Hungarian Composers Union. He was also awarded the FAME prize for his international conducting.
Julian Wachner will conduct the Festival Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to education and developing young artists, Wachner has directed the Boston Conservatory Orchestra, the Young Artists' Orchestra of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Music Academy of the West Chamber Orchestra and the McGill Classical Orchestra, among many others.
tickets ($16 & $19 general/$13 & $15 seniors/$8 & $11 students)
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Saturday, April 26
Senior Vocal Recital: Laura Zapata
2 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Friday, May 2
Minor Vocal Recital: Shaina Stevens
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Friday, May 9
Senior Vocal Recital: Amanda Tredger
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Saturday, May 10
'Take It SLO' Spring Concert
8 p.m., Grace Church, 1350 Osos Street
The 16-member vocal ensemble will perform a wide variety of songs, all arranged by the students themselves, including the popular hits "Apologize" by OneRepublic, "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles, and the premiere of a “mash-up” medley of pop songs by artists such as Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, and Nelly Furtado.
tickets at the door ($7 general, $5 students)
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Friday, May 16
Cal Poly Arab Music Ensemble Spring Concert
8 p.m., Pavilion, Cohan Center
Join the Arab Music Ensemble as singers and instrumentalists perform some of the best-known art and popular music of the Eastern Mediterranean and larger Middle East. Hear the traditional Arab melodic and rhythmic modes in the contexts of old and new genres on instruments including the `ud, qanun, nay, riqq, daff, and darabukka or tabla; as well as the violin, cello, bass, guitar, accordion, Latin percussion, and others. Topping off the performances are folkdance collaborations with San Luis Obispo’s own Middle Eastern dancers.
tickets ($10 general, $8 seniors and students)
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Saturday, May 17
Senior Vocal Recital: Richard Carrick
3 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Tuesday, May 20
An Evening of String Chamber Music
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Tuesday, May 20
"All That Brass … and more!" Cal Poly’s Brass & Trombone Choirs & Wind Dectet
8 p.m., United Methodist Church
1515 Fredericks St., SLO
FREE
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Saturday, May 24
Cal Poly Early Music Ensemble Concert
8 p.m., Mission San Luis Obispo
“From Serra to Sancho: Exploring the Music of the California Missions”
Music Professor Craig H. Russell leads us through an evening of exploration in exceptional music written for our splendid California Missions.
tickets ($12 general, $8 seniors and students)
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Sunday, May 25
Senior Guitar Recital: Brad Smith
3 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Tuesday, May 27
Piano Student Recital
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Thursday, May 29
Instrumental Student Recital
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Friday,
May 30
Cal Poly University Jazz Bands' Jazz Night
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Twenty-two-year old jazz phenom Taylor Eigsti, a two-time Grammy nominee, will be the special guest pianist with the University Jazz Bands.
tickets ($12 & $15 general/$10 & $13 seniors and Jazz Federation members/$6 & $10 students)
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Saturday, May 31
Carmina Burana: Spring Concert of the Cal Poly Choirs and Symphony
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Come celebrate spring with Cal Poly’s Combined Choirs (PolyPhonics and The University Singers) and Symphony! Carl Orff’s masterpiece brings irreverent, bawdy and tender poetry from the Middle Ages to life. Between the well-known bookends, “O Fortuna,” this 20th-century tour de force surveys the themes of Springtime (“Primo vere”), the Tavern (“In Taberna”) and the Court of Love (“Cour d’amours”). As spring arrives for us again this year, these timeless songs speak to our joys and fears as freshly as when Orff set them to music.
tickets
($10 & $12 general/$8 & $10 seniors/$6 students)
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Sunday, June 1
Senior Recital: Amanda Yoshimizu, trombone and conductor
5 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Tuesday and Thursday, June 3 and June 5
RSVP XIII: Changes
8 p.m., Pavilion, Cohan Center
The 13th season of this diverse transmedia series celebrating electroacoustic diversity and compositional risk. The third of a trilogy of productions exploring the primeval elements of music, this year’s performance focuses on harmony. Don’t miss this unique blend of sound, visuals and staging artistically directed by faculty member Antonio G. Barata.
tickets ($11 all seats)
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Thursday, June 5
Instrumental Student Recital
11 a.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218 FREE
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Friday, June 6
Vocal Student Recital
7:30 p.m., Davidson Music Center Room 218
FREE
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Saturday, June 7
Senior Vocal Recital: Stephanie Davies
2 p.m., Mt. Carmel Lutheran Church
FREE
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Saturday,
June 7
Spring Concert: Season Finale! "Symphonies, Saxophones & Superheroes"
8 p.m., Cohan Center
Featuring Robert Caron, Saxophone & the
Cal Poly Wind Orchestra & Wind Ensemble
Spring Concert: More powerful than a locomotive—fingers faster than a speeding bullet—leaps tall buildings with a single saxophone. Don’t miss this spellbinding season finale featuring Paris Conservatory saxophonist Robert Caron.
• Marilyn Shrude’s
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble
• David Gillingham’s Quintessence II
• Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide
• Michael Daugherty’s Red Cape Tango (Superman)
• Frank Ticheli’s Symphony No. 2
• Ira Hearshen’s
Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa
• John Philip Sousa’s The Thunderer
tickets
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