Performances & Events
2011-12 Schedule
Fall
| Sept 30 | Friday at Four Andrew Warren, oboe; recipient of the 2011 Rothchild Summer Stipend for Music Study. He will perform Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49 by Benjamin Britten. |
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| Oct 7 | Friday at Four Andre St James, bass and member of Reed's music performance staff, performs with his jazz quartet, "He Said, She Said". |
| Oct 28 | Friday at Four Lecture by Keir Keightley, Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario: "Frank Sinatra, Superstar: Celebrity, Masculinity, and the Rise of the Popular Artist" |
| Nov 4 | Friday at Four Reed Students perform Rachmaninoff, Mozart and an original composition by Paapa hMensa. |
| Nov 18 | Friday at Four |
| Nov 20 | Reed College Orchestra |
| Dec 1 | Reed Jazz Ensemble The Reed upperclassmen jazz ensemble performs. |
| Dec 4 | "What Is Our Life?" Principal work on the program, to be performed by the Reed Chorus and Orchestra, is the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré; soloists are baritone John Vergin ’78 and soprano Robin Steitz ’11. The Collegium Musicum will sing a cappella works that include shape note tunes, pieces by Brahms, and the madrigal by Gibbons that provides the concert title. Virginia Hancock conducts. |
| Dec 9 | Friday at Four |
Spring
| Feb 3 | Friday at Four |
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| Feb 10 | Friday at Four ROMP! Conversation: "How Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (1912) Shaped a Century of Music"February 10, Friday, 4 p.m., Eliot Hall chapel Reed's annual symposium on music and the liberal arts, Reediana Omnibus Musica Philosopha, began with a conversation between cellist Fred Sherry and composer David Schiff. |
| Mar 30 | Friday at Four |
| Apr 1 | Concert: The Reed Orchestra, “Fool Britannia” The Reed College Orchestra presented a concert of music by British composers, featuring works by Britten, Vaughan Williams, Delius, and Sullivan, with oboe soloist Andrew Warren and student conductor Duncan Law |
| Apr 6 | Friday at Four Reed Students Perform Music of Beethoven, Debussy,Mozart, Ornstein, and Rachmaninoff |
| Apr 19 | Jazz Ensembles |
| Apr 22 | Concert: Reed Orchestra and Chorus The principal work on the program was Mozart's Requiem, performed by the Reed Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by David Schiff. The Collegium Musicum, directed by Virginia Hancock, sang an assortment of a cappella pieces by English composers from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. |
| Apr 26 | Composition Recital |
| May 1 | Neil Anderson and Cole Perkinson, joint recital |
| May 4 | Friday at Four Reed String Quartet (Nate Hermanns,violin; Kate Morics, violin; Ariana Remmel,viola; Katelyn Best, cello); Reed Piano Trio (Rachel Apone, violin; Haley Jacobson, cello; Hannah Campbell-Smith, piano); Katelyn Best, cello; Joanna Rothchild, piano; Malaika Kelly, tuba; Lydia Clark, mezzo-soprano; Gustavo Lopex, trombone; perform music of Barber, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Beversdorf, and Ropartz. |
| May 6 | Haley Jacobson in recital |
| May 8 | Jazz ensembles at Jimmy Mak's |