March 28

 

Berklee Per formance Center Concerts

SPRING 1991

THE CONCERT CHOIR/THE BERKLEE THELONIOUS MONK
ENSEMBLE—The 46-voice Concert Choir, under the direction of
Voice Department faculty member Anne Peckham, will perform
works by Aaron Copland and Ralph Vaughan-Williams, as well as
spirituals and folk songs. In the celebration of Mozart’s bicentennial
year, the choir will perform Jubilate from the Offertorium Pro Omni
Tempore, K117. In the second half, faculty guitarist Rick Peckham
presents the eight-piece Berklee Thelonious Monk Ensemble perform-
ing compositions by the late jazz giant.

March 29 JAMES CLEVELAND “WE LOVE YOU”—Ensemble Department Chair

April 1

April 2

Orville Wright and faculty member Walter Beasley present Berklee's
Reverence Gospel Choir in a concert featuring contemporary gospel
music by composers Walter Hawkins, Malcolm Speed, and a special
tribute to James Cleveland, founder of the Gospel Music Workshop of
America.

THE COLLEGE SINGERS/THE CONCERT WIND ENSEMBLE—Voice
Department Chair Ken Greenhouse conducts the 22-voice College
Singers in a program of twentieth century choral music. Works by
Aaron Copland, Randall Thompson, Ron Nelson, and Edwin Fissinger
will be performed by the men and women of the College Singers
separately and together. Faculty member Wayne Ward will accom-
pany on piano. In the second half, Composition Department Assistant
Chair Greg Fritze presents the Concert Wind Ensemble performing
twentieth century music by Bernstein, Grainger, and Badings. Winner
of the 1991 Berklee Concerto Competition flutist Mia Olson will be a
featured soloist and student composer Douglas Koeppe's Music for
Winds will be featured as the winner of the 1991 Wind Ensemble
Composition Competition.

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 originals by outstanding
student composers and arrangers, including works by Associate Dean
of Curriculum Robert Myers, students Matsumi Tori, Mike Genovese,
Jose Barros, Mike Yelle, faculty member Phil Wilson, and alumnus
Makoto Ozone. Feature vocalists will be Sharine Janse and Cinthia
Tignor with Melvin Butler, Julie Sussman, Andreas Mitytermayer, and
Pat Loomis among the featured instrumentalists.