David Friend Recital Hall Concerts

January 29 — Nordic Voices IV — Under the direction of Berklee faculty
member Allen LeVines, the 15 voice Scandinvian Vocal Ensemble
“Stambandet” performs authentic Nordic music including dance tunes
and ballads from Norway and Sweden as well as “trall,” Scandinavia’s
unique vocal imitation fo fiddlers playing dance music—a tradition often
compared with scat singing.

February 1- Songs from the Bordello — Faculty vocalist Joyce Lucia
presents difficult, beautiful, risqué and seldom heard love songs by
Claude Debussy, Arnold Schonberg, Erik Satie, Nand Josef & Groucho
Marx. She will be accompanied by faculty pianist Jack Jarret.

February 5 Joe Mulholland
February 8- Faculty Woodwind Quintet.

February 12 — Oboe & Friends — Woodwind facultymember Barbara
LaFitte presents an evening of music for oboe and strings including
Benjamin Britten’s Phatsy Quartet; Jean Francaix’s quartet for English
Horn and a premier of a new compostion by Berklee composer Greg
Hopkins. Ms. Lafitte will be assited by fellow Berklee faculty Sandra Kott,
Violin And Melissa Howe, viola with special guest Lynn Nowels, cello.

February 13 - Free Range — Faculty guitarist Ed Bloomquist presents the
ensemble “Free Range, “ who have been playing together since May of
2000. Their music is entirely free improvised, falling somewhere in the
nexus between free jazz, progressive/experimental rock, sci fi avant
garde, and deranged blues. Four intrepid comrades embarking on an
pilgrimage through the uncharted laughing-gas swamps of outer space.

February 15- Udu Xylorimba Tom-tom Gong-a-thon - Percussion prinicple
Jason Currin presents new music for percussion including contempoarary
classical, electronic, pop, eastern-folk and modern improvisation mixed
with standard percussion repertoire performed by
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In partial fullfillment of the requirements for his performance degree.

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