On Friday November 30, the University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club and director Richard Teaster will present Joseph Rheinberger’s Mass in F, Op. 190, with organist Donald Fellows. Duquesne University’s Pappert Men’s Chorale will also join the Glee Club as guest artists. Along with the Rehinberger Mass, the program will feature a variety of holiday music, including carols from Austria, Italy, and France and American holiday classics.
Listen to the Men’s Glee Club sing Cantate Domino, a track from their most recent CD.
The upcoming concert takes place on Friday, November 30, 2007 at 8 p.m. in Synod Hall (125 N. Craig Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, behind St. Paul’s Cathedral). General admission is $10, student and senior admission is $5, Pitt students are admitted free with I.D. Tickets are available at the door.
The Men’s Glee club, founded in 1890, is the oldest non-athletic extracurricular activity on campus. The club has enjoyed successful tours throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Their 2007 European tour was the club’s first visit to Europe since 1990. They have been musical guests at two World’s Fairs, and continue to be featured in various television and radio appearances, including a spot on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. The club has been recorded for radio broadcast locally by WWWS-FM and WQED-FM, and featured as part of WQED’s Performance in Pittsburgh series.
Violinist Joe Liu pauses during a performance at the South Hills Giant Eagle Market District.
Last chance to hear Pitt students of all types (alumni, grad students, and undergrads) perform at Giant Eagle Market Districts! This Saturday, November 24, we’ve got some new faces to brighten up your afternoon. At Giant Eagle in the South Hills Village, between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Pitt undergrad Ian Chow will be performing with Pitt alumni Amy Feinstein, Jennifer Sternick, and Wyatt True. If you were hoping for something within walking distance from Oakland, head to the Market District in Shadyside between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. where Pitt students Ben Harris, Joe Liu, and alumnus Ben Ristau will be performing.
During recent fieldwork, Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellow J. S. Kofi Gbolonyo took this photo of drum makers in the town of Peki Yensu, Ghana as they tested out their recent creations. These are the same makers who crafted the instruments currently in use by Pitt’s African Music and Dance Ensemble. According to Kofi, the trumpet is used only for rhythmic reinforcement, and not melodically. The use of the trumpet in this context is a good example of how African communities appropriated elements of colonial influence into indigenous culture.
Kofi drew on his fieldwork for recent presentations at the American Orff-Schulwerk Association 2007 National Conference
which took place in San José, California November 14-17. He gave three sessions focusing on African percussion, rhythmic theories, and analysis; world music education and pedagogical approaches; and Orff-Afrique techniques. (more…)
The American Musicological Society held its Annual Meeting in Quebec City November 1–4. Several of our grad students and faculty were in attendance and, in between sessions, had time to catch up with alumni and friends of the Department of Music. Many thanks to grad students Brandi Neal and Chris Ruth, and Professor Mary Lewis for the many excellent photos. (more…)
Two Saturdays left to visit University of Pittsburgh students and alumni at your local grocery store! This Saturday, November 17, Pitt students Joe Liu and Kristen Pueschel and Pitt alumni Amy Feinstein and Jennifer Sternick will visit the South Hills Village Market District for a lovely performance between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm. If Shadyside is closer to your neighborhood, you’re in luck! Pitt graduate students Kerrith Livengood and Ben Harris are performing wonderful music with Pitt undergrads Callah Antonetti and Amanda Adametz at the Shadyside Giant Eagle Market District from 1 pm to 4 pm.
Rehearsal schedule
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 – Bellefield
please note: trumpets and trombones take a break: we’ll see you for the last wed. rehearsal on November 28 – see below…
7:30 strings only – make sure you have the part associated with your name
8:00 Brahms – all except trumpets and trombones(we start with 3rd and 2nd movements)
9:15 Mendelssohn
There is no rehearsal on Wednesday November 21st – Thanksgiving Recess
Happy Thanksgiving! (more…)
Please join us as we continue to serenade Giant Eagle Market District shoppers this Saturday, November 10. Pitt Students Kerrith Livengood, Ben Harris, Amanda Adametz, and Callah Antonetti will perform at Giant Eagle in the South Hills Village from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. If the South Hills is too far away or just a skosh too early, check out Pitt students Joe Liu and Kristen Pueschel, and Pitt Alumni Amy Feinstein and (yours truly) Jennifer Sternick at the Shadyside Market District between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
