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Wind Studio Recital, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2019-2020

The Wind Studio presents a recital featuring the students of Jason Gresl, Debra Inglefield, Aleksandra Kemble, and Gabriel Renteria-Elyea. Works include Mozart, Debussy, Faure, and others.

Willaglys Senior - Senior Oboe Recital, Department Of Music

Student Degree Recitals 2018-2019

Willaglys Senior featuring works by Bach, Britten, and Mozart.

Joshua Goines, piano

John Cage’S ‘Rock’ Music: Ecocritical And Performance Considerations In Ryoanji For Solo Oboe And Percussion Obbligato (1983), Everette Smith

Dissertations

In the years following World War II, several American composers began breaking from the confines of music notation relegated to five lines and four spaces. Of particular interest to this study, John Cage (1912–1992) began liberating his compositions from the restraint posed by traditional notation in 1951 with his work Imaginary Landscape No. 4. He continued to create and develop varying systems of graphic notation with his indeterminate works, which became increasingly influenced by his interest in the environment and in South and East Asian aesthetic and philosophical considerations, themselves environmentally influenced. One of the latest products of Cage’s coalescence …

Wind Studio Recital, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students of the Department of Music featuring works by Poulenc, Britten, and Brahms.

Wind Symphony Spring Concert, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Wind Symphony under the direction of Byron Graves featuring works by Kuo, Spittal, Rogers, and Bernstein.

Soloists:

Jason Gresl, clarinet/bass clarinet

Betania Cañas, flute

Pedro Falcon, oboe

Graduate conductors:

Edgar Luna

Katia Nikolaus

Sunday Music Series - Contemporary Composers Of Au, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2018-2019

Students and faculty from the Department of Music featuring their own compositions.

The Life And Work Of Alex Klein, Ramon Thiago Mendes De Oliveira

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Alex Klein is one of the best-known figures of the American oboe school. He is the winner of multiple international competitions, including the first prize at the Geneva’s Concours International d’Execution Musicale. Appointed principal oboe at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1995, Klein is one of the most highly regarded musicians hired during the Barenboim era. His recording of Richard Strauss’ oboe concerto with the CSO was awarded Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) at the 44th Grammy Awards. In 2004, his tenure at CSO was interrupted due to the onset of Focal Dystonia; which affected multiple fingers in …