Events Calendar - September 2008
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Susan Glaser, flute
Thomas Yee, piano
Sunday, September 21, 2008
4:00 p.m., Orvis Auditorium
$12 general admission, $8 students & seniors, at the door
(*Mus 199 credit for Music Majors)
Flutist Susan Glaser has been widely recognized for her colorful interpretations, virtuosity and glowing tone. Koch International Classics has just released her new recording of music by Jennifer Higdon. Mountain Songs, another Koch release, was hailed as "splendid" by Fanfare. An accomplished piccolo player, Ms. Glaser has recorded one of the few existing piccolo CD's of contemporary music on the Koch label, Bittersweet Music, garnering praise from Fanfare for her "strong and varied technique, supple and sensitive musicianship."
Ms. Glaser has appeared as soloist in Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States, performing at prestigious concert halls such as London's Wigmore Hall, the John Field Room of Ireland's National Concert Hall, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, New York's Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Chicago's Preston Bradley Hall. Ms. Glaser performed at Merkin Concert Hall with the Lark Quartet in 2008.
Ms. Glaser is currently a flute professor at New York University. She holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School.
Pianist Thomas Yee is head of the piano studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Ms. Glaser's Hawai`i recital will include:
- J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Major for Flute and Continuo, BWV 1035
- Jennifer Higdon: Legacy for Flute and Piano (1999)
- Franz Schubert: Sechs Lieder for Flute and Piano
- Philippe Gaubert: Madrigal Sonata for Flute and Piano
- Elliott Carter: Scrivo in Vento for Solo Flute (1991)
- Bohuslav Martinu: Sonata for Flute and Piano
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In Memory of Raymond & Marion Vaught
Sunday, September 28, 2008
3:00 p.m., Orvis Auditorium, free
The Music Department will remember Raymond Vaught and Marion Vaught at a concert at Orvis Auditorium on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
The concert will include performances by the Galliard String Quartet, the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble, Partners in Time, and singers from Hawaii Opera Theatre.
Raymond Vaught was a music professor at the University of Hawaii from 1955 until his retirement in 1979. He played the violin with the Honolulu Symphony from 1956 to 1987. He created the University of Hawaii early music program, Collegium Musicum, and he founded the Honolulu String Quartet. Vaught was a music and drama reviewer for The Honolulu Advetiser. Vaught also was an early member of the Honolulu Chamber Music Group, the forerunner of the Honolulu Chamber Music Series. After his retirement, he continued to lecture on opera and play the violin. He passed away in 2000.
Marion Newbury Vaught, a longtime resident of Honolulu and patron of the arts, died Monday, May 12, 2008 at the age of 92. After moving to Hawaii in 1951, Marion served as a librarian in the music department of the Library of Hawaii, the precursor to the Hawaii State Library. In 1954 she went to Japan as an Army librarian in the special services library. Two years later she returned to Honolulu and a job that she loved. Marion retired from the Hawaii State Library in 1979 after twenty-six years serving as head of the fine arts and audio-visual section. She was an active volunteer, devoting her time to Friends of the Library, St. Francis Hospice and the Hawaii Opera Theater.
Marion was born in Mobile, Alabama. She attended Louisiana State University on a flute scholarship and graduated with baccalaureate degrees in music and English, as well as a masters degree in library science. She played in the LSU orchestra eight years. While at LSU Marion joined the Sigma Phi chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music fraternity. Her enthusiasm and support of SAI continued throughout her life.
Marion played the flute for the Honolulu Symphony for four years, where she met her husband, Raymond Vaught, a violinist and professor of music at the University of Hawaii.
The concert will include:
- Puccini: Tra voi, belle from Manon Lescaut
- Dvorak: Song to the Moon from Rusalka
- Puccini: Nessun dorma from Turandot
- Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 (III. Notturno)
- Ravel: String Quartet in F Major (I. Modéré - trés doux)
- Gwyneth Walker: Psalm 23
- Randall Thompson: Alleluia
- Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via
- Verdi: Va, Pensiero from Nabucco
- Traditional Bulgarian: Krivo Sadovsko Horo
- Souren Baronian: Time and Time Again
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