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April 5 - Ueberseebrief, Lieder zur Liebe/Lunatique Fringe Orchestra - Gabriela
Tanner offers a program of original Art-songs based on German and Swiss texts

performed with piano, violin, bass and clarinet. Then composer/arranger Luna
Uehara presents original compositions for jazz orchestra.

April 9 - Songwriters Night - The twelve winners of the annual Songwriting
Contest will have their songs performed under the direction of department chair
Jack Perricone and faculty member John Stevens. The music offered ranges over a
wide variety of styles from pop/reggae through alternative rock performed in
original arrangements by the songwriters and student ensembles.

April 11 International Folk Festival - This special event, sponsored by the
Performance Studies Department, the Office of the Dean of Students and the Student
Activities Center, will feature ten ensembles representing Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, Greece, Cypress Brazil, Israel, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain and a fiddle
ensemble playing the music of their native homelands. Following the performance,
everyone is invited to a party in the Dining Hall where food from around the world
can be sampled.

April 16 - The Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra - Under the direction of faculty
composer/arranger/trumpeter Greg Hopkins, this large ensemble will perform
contemporary big band jazz.

April 17 - Guitar Week-Jon Finn/Mike Keneally
April 18 - Guitar Week-John Scofield/Guitar Frenzy
April 19 - Guitér Week-John Wilkins/Mike Williams
April 20 - Guitar Week-Guitar Night

April 22 - Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein - The Berklee Concert Choir,
under the direction of Voice faculty Anne Peckham, will perform Chichester Psalms
by Leonard Bernstein, commissioned by the Cathedral of Chichester in Sussex
England for their 1965 Music Festival. This performacne will feature organ, harp
and percussion accompaniment and the choir will sing in Hebrew with a solo
quartet and boy alto.

April 25 - Singers’ Showcase - In honor of Berklee's 50th anniversary the Yo Team
presents a tribute to fifty years of music from the forties up until to present day.
This concert will feature some of the college’s finest student vocalists, instrumental-
ists, and arrangers performing music of artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Andrews
Sisters , Fats Domino, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Beatles, The Supremes, Elton
John, Donna Summer, Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder, and K.D. Lang.

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