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Jazz<\/h5>\n
The UCR Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo will be performing at the Culver Center of the Arts in a free public concert on Thursday, May 29. The jazz combo will begin the evening with an \u201ceclectic set of music originally written by artists varying from Crosby, Stills, and Nash to George Gershwin to James Brown,\u201d said Director Josh Welchez. The jazz ensemble will take the stage after the intermission and play a \u201cdiverse set of compositions by composers ranging from Herbie Hancock to the 90s band Soundgarden.\u201d<\/p>\n
The concert will feature graduating seniors who programed the entire concert. \u201cFor this concert, we will be featuring two student-written arrangements and one arrangement by an alumnus,\u201d Welchez said. \u201cThis has become a tradition that started before the pandemic and that the students look forward to each year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
UCR Orchestra\n<\/p>\n
On Saturday, May 31 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 1 at 3 p.m. at the University Theatre on the UC Riverside campus the UCR Orchestra under the baton of Ruth Charloff will take audiences on a trip through time and place from the villages of Norway, the wild and mythic islands off the coast of Scotland, the United States of the 19th century, and into deep space.<\/p>\n
The first half of the concert will feature Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s \u201cHebrides Overture,\u201d which he was inspired to write while visiting an ancient cave open to the North Sea and all its storms. Edvard Grieg tapped into his country\u2019s lively folk tradition with \u201cNorwegian Dances.\u201d The \u201cSinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres),\u201d composed in 2014 by American composer Missy Mazzoli, \u201cuses the orchestra, twelve harmonicas, gentle other-worldly dissonances, and slow pulsations of consonance to transport us into a gorgeous, dramatic ambience of outer space,\u201d Charloff said.<\/p>\n
After an intermission, the orchestra will perform Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s most popular work, \u201cNew World Symphony.\u201d It was composed during his own travels in the United States during the 1890s. It has a famous solo played on the English horn. \u201cHelen Gomez, the graduating senior who\u2019s been our principal oboist for four years, will be featured,\u201d Charloff said.<\/p>\n\n
UCR Wind Ensemble\n<\/p>\n
Join the UC Riverside Wind Ensemble on Monday, June 2 at 7 p.m., for its annual Spring Concert at the Culver Center of the Arts. It is free and open to the public. Under the direction of Armando Due\u00f1as, the ensemble will perform \u201cOlympiada\u201d by Samuel Hazo, \u201cLife Eternal\u201d by Rosanno Galante, \u201cChester\u201d by William Schuman, \u201cThe Witch and the Saint\u201d by Steven Reineke, and \u201cHungarian March\u201d from the opera \u201cThe Damnation of Faust\u201d by Hector Berlioz.<\/p>\n
The concert will be the world premiere of \u201cThe Last Star\u201d by student composer and band manager Christopher Shimoon. Student conductor Sarah Howick selected \u201cLife Eternal,\u201d which will be dedicated to her late grandmother who passed earlier in the year.<\/p>\n\n
UCR CHOIRS: Chamber Singers & Chorale\n<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, June 4, at 8 p.m., Director Ruth Charloff will lead the UCR Chamber Singers & Chorale in a concert titled \u201cSongs of Nature (and Us).\u201d Charloff said the evening will evoke the \u201cwonder and longing with which we wish to be one with nature, the metaphors we draw from nature for our relationships and much else.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The audience will hear songs from around the world, such as a Japanese children\u2019s song, an Afro-Cuban song rooted in the Yoruba religion of West Africa, African American spirituals, music by Monteverdi, Brahms, Lauridsen, Frank Loesser, Joni Mitchell, and much more. \u00a0Charloff said of her choral students, \u201cWe have a lot of talented people and are having a great time preparing this wide variety of music.\u201d<\/p>\n
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