Thanks to generous funding from the Rivendell Foundation, the Macalester Music Department presents two to three concerts per season focusing on New Music and Jazz.

Past guests have included jazz pianist/composer/arranger Uri Caine, singer Lucy Shelton, pianist/composer Frederic Rzewski, Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Yehudi Wyner, chamber group eighth blackbird, and jazz composer/bandleader Maria Schneider. Guest artists work with Macalester students in classes and master classes and give free concerts which are open to the public.

UPCOMING NEW MUSIC SERIES CONCERT

Wednesday, February 3, 8 p.m.: Enso String Quartet, which has received rave reviews from such publications as Fanfare magazine and the Washington Post, performs Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Reich’s Different Trains, a landmark of American minimalism. Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. The concert is free, and no reservations are required.

PREVIOUS NEW MUSIC SERIES CONCERTS

September 26-27, 2009 The concert featured John Cage’s landmark work “Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano,” played by Macalester Music Department chair Mark Mazullo, with choreography by Macalester dance program director Becky Heist, featuring ten professional and student dancers.

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October 6, 2009: The concert featured jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Uri Caine performing solo piano works as well as with a combo, which included Macalester studio instructors Dave Jensen, trumpet, and Kathy Jensen, saxophone. The MacJazz big band, directed by Joan Griffith, performed several works by Caine.

All Macalester New Music Series concerts are free. For more information, call 651-696-6808

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