Voice Faculty Chamber Recital
Members of the Cali School voice faculty, sopranos Julia Rolwing, Karen Driscoll,  Lori McCann, and Valerie Bernhardt, mezzo soprano Helen Park, tenor Stephen Oosting, and baritone Lars Woodul perform songs and arias of Bizet, Barber, Tchaikovsky, Cilea, Schubert, Kilpinnen, and others.
— Leshowitz Recital Hall

Choral Workshop:Children’s Voices in Action
Rehearsal Techniques for Young Voices

A valuable opportunity for choral directors and college-level music education majors interested in working with young voices to observe veteran conductor and choral music educator Deborah Mello in rehearsal with the Children’s Chorus of Sussex County. — Chapin Hall G55

Admission: FREE but pre-registration is required. Seats will be limited.
Registration: Email Daveda Brown, Choral Activities Teaching Assistant, to reserve your seat.If you have questions, please contact
Dr. Heather J. Buchanan
Director of Choral Activities

Sun. 11 — 3 pm

Beatrice Crawford Memorial Concert* 
University Singers & MSU Chorale
Heather J. Buchanan, conductor
Christopher Judd, baritone
Monica Yunus, soprano
Janara Kellerman, mezzo-soprano
John Lindsey, tenor
Todd Thomas, baritone
Cali Camerata
MSU Symphony Orchestra

A program exploring cultural and religious tolerance through mutual understanding and respect.

The University Singers, Christopher Judd, baritone, Steven W. Ryan, piano, and the Cali Camerata will perform René Clausen's Memorial, a work that reflects the events of September 11, 2011 and themes of healing and hope, utilizing texts in Latin, Hebrew and Arabic.

The evening will also feature the East Coast premiere of Parables, an oratorio with libretto by Herschel Garfein and music by Robert Aldridge. This major work will be performed by the MSU Chorale, with soprano Monica Yunus, mezzo-soprano Janara Kellerman, tenor John Lindsey, baritone Todd Thomas, and the MSU Symphony Orchestra. The work highlights the tolerance and understanding of all cultural and spiritual backgrounds with texts drawn from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

This concert is a free public performance supported by a generous grant from the Keating Crawford Foundation. It is presented at Montclair State University in memory of Beatrice Crawford, a Montclair musician who was the director of two choral groups “The Madrigals” and “The Choraliers.”   — Kasser Theater: free admission but tickets are required*

Cali Camerata - A chamber orchestra comprising Cali School students and faculty performs Mozart's Symphony No.29, Barber's Adagio from the String Quartet op.11, and Shostakovich's Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet with Olga Vinokur, piano and Michael Bassett, trumpet
— Leshowitz Recital Hall

Duo pianists Irina Koulikova & Jim Litzelman
Guest artists from Moscow Conservatory
will perform some two-piano music of
Sergei Rachmaninov — Leshowitz Recital Hall

Fri. 10 at 8 pm
Sat. 11 at 8 pm
Sun. 12 at 3 & 8 pm

Closer Than Ever
In Concert
Music by David Shire
Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr.

In this brilliant companion to their hit revue Starting Here, Starting Now, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire follow up their earlier "songs of innocence" with twenty-four funny, wise and witty "songs of experience." As with their earlier revue, each song in Closer Than Ever is a story: an intimate, insightful tale about love, security, happiness-and holding onto them in a world that pulls you in a hundred directions at once. Maltby and Shire bring their celebrated craft and contemporary sensibility to songs about aging, mid-life crisis, second marriages, and role reversals with parents, as well as wicked satirical jabs at Muzak, working couples and unrequited love. — Leshowitz Recital Hall

Robert Cart, flute, piccolo and tenor
Robert Cart, director of the Cali School of Music, will perform a flute, piccolo & tenor recital with pianist Regina DiMedio-Marrazza. Repertoire includes: Gary Schocker's Piccolo Italiano, or me & my gold piccolo and Always and Forever, Eldin Burton's Sonatina, and Britten's Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo.
— Leshowitz Recital Hall

Voice Recital  
— Leshowitz Recital Hall

Choral Spring Concert
Heather J. Buchanan, conductor
Steven W. Ryan, piano
Kasser Theater

Celebrating Africa!
Featuring the Montclair State University choirs in performances of music inspired by Africa’s diverse & unique cultural heritage

Free concert for Schools & Community Groups* 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

*Admission by ticket only. Contact Kathleen Reddington (reddingtonk@mail.montclair.edu) ASAP and no later than Friday, March 23, 2012 to reserve your tickets.

University Singers will be performing choral highlights by a variety of composers. MSU Chorale will present David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus.  Described as an “Afro-Latin, tribal-choral masterpiece” and “legendary oratorio out of Africa,” African Sanctus fuses traditional African music with elements of the Latin mass. Its message is one of peace, goodwill and understanding between nations. Scored for operatic soprano solo, large choir, piano, pre-recorded African tape, percussion, and rock band, against a backdrop of stunning visual images.

Admission: Free – ticket required
Registration: Contact Kathleen Reddington (reddingtonk@mail.montclair.edu) no later than Friday, March 23, 2012.

For more information contact Kathleen Reddington (973-655-7071 or at the email above.)

Pre-concert talk 6:30 – 7:30 pm in the Leshowitz Recital Hall, Cali School of Music

Program Highlights:
60-voice MSU Singers
The Making of the Drum (Bob Chilcott), Traditional South African Folk-Songs & African-American Spirituals

160-voice MSU Chorale
David Fanshawe’s epic “Afro-Latin, tribal-choral masterpiece” African Sanctus with professional guest artist Indra Thomas, soprano, and accompaniment of piano, percussion, African tape, lead guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, & ethnic drumming troupe.

• · This unorthodox setting of the Latin Mass integrates authentic traditional African music recorded by the composer on his now legendary journeys up the river Nile through Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya. The MSU performance will be a dramatic multi-media production with slide projections of the composer’s photographs simultaneously coordinated with the musical performance.
• · The MSU performances also honor the composer’s 70th birthday and we are honored to welcome his wife Jane Fanshawe to campus. Jane will give a free pre-concert talk on African Sanctus in the Leshowitz Recital Hall on Saturday, April 21 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm

MSU Symphony
Ken Lam, conductor

Springtime means comic opera at MSU! The MSU Opera Workshop, MSU Symphony and MSU’s Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America team up to present fully-staged performances of a comic masterpiece chosen from the rich Italian operatic tradition. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

In partnership with the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America
— Kasser Theater*