UTC Music Department Presents Treemonisha

The Chattanooga Choral Society in collaboration with the UTC Department of Music and UTC Theatre present TREEMONISHA, an opera by famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin, at Roland Hayes Concert Hall, in Chattanooga, TN. In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the UTC Music Department in cooperation with the Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song and UTC Theatre will present two evening performances of Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha on Jan. 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee on Jan. 29, at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20 general admission, $17 seniors, and $14 for students. Tickets are on sale now at the UTC Box Office at 425-4269. Tickets available here. 

Treemonisha, composed by famous ragtime composer Scott Joplin, is a story of the triumph of education and enlightenment over superstition and ignorance among the African American population of the Texarkana region of Arkansas in the late 1800s. Perhaps even more interesting is the exploration of the theme of whether men would follow a woman as a political community leader during this era. Joplin sets these two themes against a musical backdrop of the romantic opera of the early 20th century.

The score is not ragtime, although it incorporates elements of ragtime among its musical ideas. There are black folk songs and dances, and even a kind of pre-blues music alongside spirituals and gospel elements in the score. This performance will feature the orchestration and arrangement by T. J. Anderson.

First concert of AMPHIBIAN's spring season. Hope to see you there!

Jan 28: MOMENTA QUARTET

Dalit Warshaw: Elegy for String Quartet
Schubert: Rosamunde

Premieres by Jonathan Gruver and Andrew Taylor

AMPHIBIAN is a performance series that combines new chamber music with video art. Our second season will include the Momenta Quartet, the Cygnus Ensemble, and Temple University’s ‘Cybersounds,’ which offers electro-acoustic and visual music under the direction of Maurice Wright.  In addition to these events, the endlessly inventive Mari Kimura will present an evening of her own interactive works for violin, electronics and video, plus an electro-acoustic classic: Mario Davidovsky’s lyrical 9th Synchronism for violin and pre-recorded electronic sound. Events take place at the HiArt Gallery (227 West 29th Street).  -Matthew Greenbaum

Christopher Oldfather and Roberto Pace, duo pianists, will be presenting the New York premiere of Erik Lundborg's "Colors" on January 24, 2012 at the Third Street Music School Settlement, 235 East 11th Street (@ 2nd Avenue.) Entrance details: 0 bucks and the concert starts at 7:30 PM.

The New England Conservatory Alumni office is sponsoring the event == all composers and performers are graduates of the school. Composers includes John Heiss, Eleanor Cory, David Amram, Daniel Felsenfeld, Dan Cooper, Frank Heiss, Sara Holtzschue, Geoffrey Kidde, Andrew Rathbun and Lynn Bechtold.

Arrangements have been made for a post-performance gathering of performers, composers and friends in the back room of Pangea Restaurant and Bar (178 2nd Avenue, between 11th & 12th Streets.)

Happy Birthday wishes to Elliott Schwartz, who turns 76 this week. Elliott will be traveling to England next week for a February-March fellowship at Robinson College, at the University of Cambridge -- his fifth Cambridge visiting residency.  He will work with students there on a concert of  chamber music, including the premiere of his own recently-completed "Anagrams" for Bb trumpet and percussionist.