11 (Monday)

Kenneth Frazelle's "Songs in the Rear View Mirror"

Kathryn Findlen, mezzo soprano, with Richard Masters, pianist

UNCSA alumna Kathryn Findlen, mezzo soprano, and pianist Richard Masters bring a preview of their Carnegie Hall show to Watson Hall, performing: "Songs in the Rear View Mirror" by faculty composer Kenneth Frazelle. The work has been hailed as  "...one of the finest American song cycles in recent or distant memory…" ( San Francisco Classical Voice).  Part road trip and part childhood reminiscence, the work transports listeners on an evocative and haunting musical portrait of Southern life and art, past abandoned barns, tangles of kudzu and evangelizing road signs. The work grew out of a fascination with the artistic progeny of humble Hale County, Ala., through the celebrated photographs, sculpture and paintings of Alabama native William Christenberry. When Frazelle undertook his own journey in the artists’ footsteps he not only found new sources of inspiration but unexpectedly unearthed many poignant, nostalgic and often turbulent memories from his own Southern childhood. "Songs in the Rear View Mirror" is one of Frazelle’s most ambitious works, comprising 10 songs united by refreshing harmonies, coloristic piano writing, and the undulating rhythm of the highway.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

FREE

16 (Saturday)

Deeds of Daring Duo

Visiting faculty violinist Janet Orenstein joins pianist Allison Gagnon for three chestnuts of the sonata repertoire: Brahms’ first Sonata, Bloch’s Baal Shem Suite, and Corigliano’s award-winning Sonata, together spanning a century’s worth of romanticism and virtuosity.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall
$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

17 (Sunday)

Trombone Studio Recital

The trombone studio, under direction of John Ilika, will present ensembles and soloists that feature the talents of our trombonists at UNCSA. Trombones play every style, every dynamic to the extreme.

2:00 p.m. at Watson Hall

FREE

20 (Wednesday) and 26-27 (Tuesday-Wednesday)

Student Chamber Music Festival Concerts

Student ensembles perform traditional and contemporary chamber music works. The program will feature trios, quartets and quintets and will celebrate the student talent of the UNCSA School of Music.

March 20 & 27 at 2:00 p.m. at Crawford Hall

March 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

FREE

22 (Friday)

UNCSA Wind Ensemble

The UNCSA Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Michael Dodds, is joined by faculty bassoonist Saxton Rose in Dana Wilson’s Avatar: Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Winds and by faculty organist Timothy Olsen in Carl Nielsen’s majestic Sinfonia Espansiva for symphonic brass and organ.

7:30 p.m. at Crawford Hall
$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

24 (Sunday)

Undergraduate Opera Workshop: An Afternoon at the Opera

Steven LaCosse, stage director / Mary Ann Bills, musical preparation
Members of the Undergraduate Opera Workshop perform one-act operas.

2:00 p.m. at de Mille Theatre

FREE

March 27-30 (Wednesday-Saturday) & April 3-6 (Wednesday-Saturday)

'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford (in place of Othello)

Directed by Jesse Berger / Featuring members of Studio 4

John Ford's Jacobean masterpiece, directed by Jesse Berger, who runs the off-Broadway Red Bull Theater

March 27-30 & April 3-6 at 8:00 p.m.
March 30 & April 6 at 2:00 p.m.
Patrons Theatre, Performance Place
$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

30 (Saturday)

UNCSA Symphony Orchestra: Britten and the Sea

As a young composer, Britten attended a concert which included Frank Bridge’s tone poem The Sea. The work “knocked him side-ways” and soon after Bridge became Britten’s teacher. Britten’s orchestral version of the sea follows with the Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from his opera Peter Grimes. Also featured on this concert is the winner of the spring concerto competition. James Allbritten conducts.

7:30 p.m. at Stevens Center
$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

15 (Friday)

Piedmont Opera: The Barber of Seville

Stevens Center

8:00 p.m.

$15-$80

17 (Sunday)

Piedmont Opera: The Barber of Seville

Stevens Center

2:00 p.m.

$15-$80

19 (Tuesday)

Piedmont Opera: The Barber of Seville

Stevens Center

7:30 p.m.

$15-$80