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OCTOBER 2012

 

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Thursday, October 4
 
Takács String Quartet
Sponsored by Princeton University Concerts
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 8:00PM


Just a few tickets remain for the opening of the Princeton University Concerts season featuring the renown Takács String Quartet.


Thursday, October 11
 
Livestock Exchange Improvised Music Series
Woolworth Center McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, 12:00 Noon

Matthew Shipp

Featuring Avant-garde jazz pianist/composer Matthew Shipp and friends. For more information on Matthew Shipp, visit his website.
 
FREE ADMISSION

Thursday, October 11 

Composition Colloquium
Woolworth Center Room 102, 4:30PM

Speaker
Matthew Shipp

"The Creative Process and Improvisation"
 
FREE ADMISSION
Thursday, October 11

Jazz at Café Vivian
Frist Campus Center, 11:00PM

Featuring the University Jazztet

FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, October 13 

Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 8:00PM
Ralph Bowen, Guest Conductor

Featuring arrangements by Neil Slater, Louie Bellson, Clark Terry, Bob Berg and Scott Whitfield.

Tickets $15 general, $5 students.

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Sunday, October 14

Jazz Vespers
University Chapel, 11:00AM

Featuring the University Jazz Vespers Ensemble
 
FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday, October 17  

Introduction to Russian Jazz and Soviet Music
Woolworth Center McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, 12:00 Noon

Speakers
Pianist Ivan Farmakovsky
Music Critic Cyril Moshkow
 
FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday, October 17  

Russian Songs of Soviet Film & Animation Composers
Arts Council of Princeton Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 8:00PM

Ivan
Ivan Farmakovsky

Featuring Pianist Ivan Farmakovsky, Saxophonist Ralph Bowen, Bassist Kenny Davis and Drummer Donald Edwards
.

This event is sponsored by the Princeton University Program in Jazz Studies, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the
FREE ADMISSION

Thursday, October 18 

 
Musicology Colloquium
Woolworth Center Room 106, 4:30PM

Speaker
David Lidov, Professor Emeritus at York University, Canada

"Against Music Semiotics"

FREE ADMISSION 

Friday, October 19  

 
Princeton University Glee Club
Annual Football Concert

Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, 7:30PM
Gabriel Crouch, Conductor

A 99 year tradition, the Princeton University Glee Club hosts the Harvard University Glee Club this year for the annual choral face-off.

Tickets $15 general, $5 students.

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Saturday, October 20 & Sunday, October 21  

 
Princeton University Orchestra
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall,
7:30PM (10/20) 3:00PM (10/21)
Michael Pratt, Conductor 

Dmitri
Professor Dmitri Tymoczko 

PROGRAM:
DMITRI TYMOCZKO  "Power Chords" for String Quartet and Orchestra with the Amernet String Quartet, Guest Artists.
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 in E Minor,
Op. 93

As a gift to the campus and community, the Sunday performance will be free of charge. Free tickets cannot be ordered online but must be reserved by calling University Ticketing at 609-258-9220. 

 

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Wednesday, October 31  

 
Sakhioba Ensemble 
Princeton University Chapel, 7:30PM

Sakhioba, a 12-strong-male-ensemble from the Republic of Georgia, performs in Princeton on their October tour of the United States.

This event is co-sponsored by PIIRS, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Princeton Georgian Choirs.


FREE ADMISSION 

 

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