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7:30pm, Concert Hall, Music Building
Performing combos include "Pursued By a Bear", "Unnamed Combo", and "Promotional Material" in their annual fall concert, under the direction of Joan Griffith.
Concert Hall, Music Building
The Macalester Orchestra, directed by Cary John Franklin, performs its annual winter concert featuring Saint-Saens' Dance Bacchanale from Samson and Dalila, and Rimsky Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol.
Macalester Choirs Fall Choral Concert: Timeless Melodies
8pm, Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center & Gallery
The Singing Scotsmen of Macalester, the Hildegard Singers (women's ensemble), and the Macalester Concert Choir will perform a varied program based upon chants, carols, and folk songs, including pieces by J.S. Bach, Monteverdi, Rosephayne Powell, and St. Paul native, Linda Kachelmeier. The Macalester Concert Choir, featuring Persian Ney player Hossein Omoumi, will be performing a newly commissioned work by Jan Gilbert, Songs of Transformation, based on a medieval Persian text by Hafiz.
7:30pm, Concert Hall, Music Building
Directed by Carleton Macy, the early music ensemble performs its annual winter concert.
8pm, Concert Hall, Music Building
Directed by Joan Griffith, the big band performs its annual winter concert.
Macalester African Music Ensemble Concert
Concert Hall, Music Building
Directed by Sowah Mensah, the ensemble performs its annual winter concert.
Please note: The concert is free but tickets are required. They will be available beginning at 5:30 the day of the performance.
The Ballets Russes Project: A Centennial Celebration
2pm, Boardroom, Weyerhaeuser Hall
This unique symposium will bring together artists, academics, critics and practitioners to celebrate the centennial of the Ballets Russes and its resonance today. The conversation will touch upon local currents in the arts that relate to the legacy of the troupe and its forward-thinking approach to interdisciplinarity. A special focus will treat the 100th anniversary of Sergei Diaghilev’s company as an opportunity to consider the role of the artist as Global Citizen. We will examine the extraordinary cultural encounters that the Ballets Russes triggered as they traversed the globe and learned to market themselves and their aesthetic as a truly international, collaborative experiment … one that provoked audiences to reimagine the ballet.
The keynote speaker for this symposium is Lynn Garafola, professor of dance at Barnard College, Columbia University. Guests include Sally Rousse, James Sewell Ballet; Maria Zavialova, The Museum of Russian Art; Stuart Pimsler, Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater; Phillip Gainsley, frequent commentator for The Minnesota Orchestra; Camille LeFevre, arts critic for MinnPost; Colleen McQuillen, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages & Literatures, University of Illionois, Chicago; and Macalester arts and humanities faculty.
For more information, email the project curator Rachel Perlmeter or Professor Julia Chadaga.
Chopin Society: Pianist Jeremy Denk
3pm, Concert Hall, Music Building
The much talked-about American pianist and music blogger brings steely intensity and bold insight to a contrasting mix of repertoire.
Chopin Society: Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor
3pm, Concert Hall, Music Building
Four years after his sensational Minnesota debut, the 17-year old English pianist returns to savor the jazz-inspired elements of Kapustin, the shimmering magic of Ravel, and the poetic power of Chopin.
An Evening of Jazz with Geri Allen
8pm, Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center & Gallery
The Macalester Concert Choir and the Mac Jazz Big Band collaborate in a joint concert with the internationally known and award-winning jazz pianist, composer and arranger, Geri Allen. Allen will conduct several master classes and rehearsals; culminating in a final performance with both the choir and jazz band. Standard jazz charts, music of Geri Allen, and an excerpt from Mary Lou Williams' Mary Lou's Mass will be performed.
Songs of Love, Hope, and Faith featuring Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms
8pm, Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center & Gallery
The Macalester Combined Choirs unite with the Festival Chorale (faculty, staff and community members) to sing Stravinsky's hauntingly impassioned Symphony of Psalms, featuring pianists Mark Mazullo, chair of the Music Department and professor, and piano proficiency coordinator Claudia Chen. In addition, the Macalester Concert Choir will perform selections by Brahms, Matthew Harris, a new composition by professor Carleton Macy, and Antonio Vivaldi's Magnificat with soprano soloist Rabihah Davis. All faculty, staff and community members interested in singing in this performance should contact Eugene Rogers at 651-696-6804 or erogers2@macalester.edu.
Chopin Society: Pianist Janina Fialkowska
3pm, Concert Hall, Music Building
With perfect fusion of technique and soul, one of Canada's best-loved pianists offers a richly diverse all-Chopin program to honor the composer in his 200th birthday year.
