Free Music This Month
The following are free shows and concerts on campus during the month of March:
Saturday, March 3, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Ives Hall - the Music Education program presents the CMEA Solo/Ensemble Festival. Guest adjudicators will provide input to vocal and instrumental soloists and small ensembles from elementary and secondary schools.
Saturday, March 10, noon to 5 p.m., Warren Auditorium - the Sonoma State University Vocal Program presents guest artist Lorenzo Malfatti conducting a master class. In this open master class, available to all, Malfatti works with singers in the Italian vocal repertoire. Malfatti has been an opera director with Chicago Lyric Opera, Cincinnati Conservatory and the Summer Vocal Institute (Lucca, Italy).
Sunday, March 18, 3 p.m., Ives Hall - the Etude Music Competition Winners Concert will be held. Entrants include youth from Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino and Napa counties. Awards are in four categories: piano, strings, winds and vocal.
Thursday, March 22, 7:30 p.m., Warren Auditorium - the Sonoma State University Latin Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Bob Afifi, will be in concert.
Sunday, March 25, 4 p.m., Ives Hall - pianist Paul Ammerman performs his student senior recital.
Thursday, March 29, 7:30 p.m., Ives Hall - Mel Graves leads the Sonoma State University Jazz Ensemble in a concert of originals and jazz standards.
Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., Ives Hall - soprano Jennifer Iloff performs her student senior recital.
Anne Goldman Sets Out to Enlighten "National Sound and Musical Vernaculars"
English Professor Anne Goldman presents a lecture entitled “National Sound and Musical Vernaculars: The Compositions of Aaron Copland and George Gershwin” as part of the Arts & Humanities Research & Creative Works Forum on Thursday, March 8 at noon in Stevenson 3082. Goldman says both George Gershwin and Aaron Copland insisted upon the indigenous character of their music. This talk explores the tension between their desire to create distinctly American vernaculars and the Russian-Jewish sound world within which they grew up. Though American-born, both composers might have stepped out of the pages of Call It Sleep, Henry Roth’s story of immigrant life in turn-of-the-century New York.
Taking Figures Apart and Putting Other
Ones Together
is What They do Best
Some geometric decompositions are easy and some are not at all obvious. Professor Tom Sallee, University of California, Davis, looks at both real-world decompositions and some of the paradoxical ones like breaking a solid ball up and rearranging the pieces to get two solid balls the same size from 4-5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 in Darwin 103. For more information visit the Math Colloquium Web site.
Get Ready for the Fifth Annual Language Festival
Songs in Spanish, German rappers and classic French mime and accordion tunes share the stage at the fifth annual Language Festival at Sonoma State University from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 10. Spoken language is a also big part of the day as local middle school and high school students compete in language contests with the encouragement and support of SSU students and faculty. These contests include poetry, diction, public speaking, and literary competitions in French, German and Spanish. SSU students will serve as greeters, judges, and language-specific tour guides for this portion of the event.
After a short brown-bag lunch, SSU students, high school students, and faculty will join together in a cabaret extravaganza in the Cooperage, including musical and dramatic performances in French, German, Spanish and more. In between the various numbers, the audience will be entertained by jazz musicians from SSU’s Music program. SSU’s new international honor society Phi Beta Delta will also be in attendance.
In 2006, over 200 people attended the Festival and many went home with a wide variety of prizes for their competitive efforts. This year’s prizes include French music CDs, Swiss Army knife-cards, books, language-related software, gift certificates to local restaurants and more. Admission to the festival is free with the exception of the cabaret, which is $3 at the door.
For more information, contact Suzanne Toczyski, Associate Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, at 4-4177.