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Berklee Performance Center Concerts

FALL 1992

BERKLEE CONCERT WIND ENSEMBLE—This 45-piece ensemble,
under the direction of Assistant Chair of the Compositon Department
Gregory Fritze consists of woodwinds, brass, and percussion. They
will perform a concert of twentieth century music for winds including
works by Gustav Holst, Dimitri Shostakovich, Ron Nelson, Fred Fox,
and Vincent Persichetti.

SINGERS SHOWCASE—In its 10th year, the Performance Studies
Department’s Yo Team Productions presents eight of Berklee’s finest
vocalists performing the music of Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Barbra
Streisand, Peter Gabriel, and many others in a variety of instrumental
settings and arrangements written especially for this event.

SYNCHRONICITY—Film Scoring Department Assistant Chair Michael
Rendish directs an evening of original music originally written for film
and television by Film Scoring Department faculty members Jonathan
Klein, David Spear, Michael Rendish, and Don Wilkins will be pre-
sented in a fresh format featuring multiple keyboards, winds/saxes,
brass and rhythm section. A diverse collection of musical styles will
include jazz, Latin, fusion, and new age with guest performers drawn
from the Berklee faculty. A portion of the program will feature a
David Spear arrangement of music by the late film composer Georges
Delerue in honor of a new scholarship that will be offered to Film
Scoring majors in his name.

THE BERKLEE THELONIOUS MONK ENSEMBLE/THE JAZZ
FUSION BIG BAND—An octet under the direction of Guitar Depart-
ment Assistant Chair Rick Peckham will perform seven Thelonious
Monk compositons including a group-transcribed Monk solo on
Epistrophy. In the second half, faculty trumpeter/composer/arranger
Brian Lewis directs the Jazz Fusion Big Band in contemporary works
by artists such as Bob Mintzer, Matt Harris and Lewis as well as
compositions by Brecker Brothers, Weather Report, Chick Corea,
Tower of Power, and others.