December 3 December 4 December 5 December 6 December 10 Berklee Per formance Center Concerts FALL 1990 THE COLLEGE SINGERS/THE CONCERT CHOIR—Voice Department Chairman Kenneth Greenhouse will conduct the 10-voice College Singers in a program of twentieth century choral music and original compositions and arrangements. Fea- tured will be an arrangement by Yumiko Matsuoka and a setting of faculty member Lucille Holstedt’s composition “Song for a New Life} arranged and accompanied by Holdstedt and faculty pianist Wayne Ward. In the second half, the 43-member Concert Choir, under the direction of Voice Department faculty member Anne Peckham, will perform Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major accom- panied by the Berklee String Ensemble and featuring Voice Department faculty members Sharon Brown, Joanne Whitaker and Luz Bermejo and former faculty member Sara Goldstein as soloists. THE BERKLEE BUDDY RICH ENSEMBLE-—Faculty trum- peter Wayne Naus leads Berklee’s Buddy Rich Ensemble perform- ing compositions and arrangements made famous by the late drummer and bandleader. VOCAL SUMMIT/VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE—Voice Depart- ment faculty member Bob Stoloff leads the 12-voice Vocal Summit in a program of original free improvisation, a cappella vocals and theater pieces. In the second half, faculty vocalist April Arabian leads the Vocal Jazz Ensemble in a variety of contemporary vocal arrangements both a cappella and accompanied by a four-piece rhythm section in styles ranging from jazz to fusion. AN EVENING WITH THE BERKLEE RAINBOW BAND — Faculty trombonist/composer/arranger Phil Wilson leads the Berklee Rainbow Band in a program of jazz, fusion and rock origi- nals by outstanding student composers and arrangers. Featured will be instrumentalists Pat Loomis and Abe Laboriel, Jr., vocalists Sharina Jange and Cindy Tignor and the premiere of Phil Wilson’s “Wizard of Oz Suite” SEE ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE—THE BERKLEE REVERENCE GOSPEL ENSEMBLE —Traditional and contem- porary gospel music by Walter Hawkins, Richard Smallwood, Keith Pringle and others will be performed by Berklee’s Reverence Gospel Ensemble under the direction of Lori Roberts with faculty advisors Walter Beasley and Orville Wright. The choir will feature freshman vocalist Wilbur Nichols and a host of new faces, as well as an arrangement of “What Child Is This” by Orville Wright and an original composition by accompanist Dennis Montgomery III.