EUGENE–Concertgoers can sample a musical menu ranging from symphonic repertoire and "Poetry in Song" to exotic international percussionists and a personal look at the late Canadian musician Glenn Gould, all offered this week at the University of Oregon School of Music.

For more information about this week’s four concerts and the Gould film and lecture offering, call the UO School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave., weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a 24-hours-a-day taped message of the week’s events.

The University Symphony, under the baton of Professor Wayne Bennett, will give its winter concert at 7:30 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.

The program, which the orchestra will perform on a four-day tour to towns in Washington and British Columbia, includes "Serenade for String Orchestra" by Dag Wiren, Four Dance Episodes from Aaron Copland’s "Rodeo," Stravinsky’s "Firebird Suite" and one movement of Samuel Barber’s "Concerto for Violin," with Fritz Gearhart as soloist.

Gearhart, a UO assistant music professor, has several compact discs to his credit and has performed in major halls around the country, including several recent recitals at Carnegie Hall.

The University Symphony will perform this program in Port Angeles, Wash. and at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia; Kwantlen College, in Vancouver, British Columbia; at Olympia High School, in Olympia, Wash.; and at Willamette University in Salem.

Vocal majors and pianists at the School of Music will present a group recital titled "Poetry in Song" at 7 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Admission is free.

The performance is the second of three in a series of "Poetry in Song" recitals. The final one is scheduled for May 1.

The performers are graduate and undergraduate students of voice faculty members Ann Tedards, Mark Beudert and Milagro Vargas.

Bruno Monsaingeon, a French musician and filmmaker, will give a talk and show a rarely seen film series he produced on pianist Glenn Gould. The program, titled "Glenn Gould as I Knew Him," is at 3:30 p.m. in Beall Hall. Admission is $3 for the general public and free to UO students, faculty and staff.

Monsaingeon will show and speak about three films from a series he made with the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. They have rarely been seen in the United States and are not available through video stores.

Gould, who died of a stroke in 1982 at the age of 50, was an enigmatic and supremely gifted artist, and Canada’s most renowned classical musician of the 20th century. Gould devoted himself not only to the piano, as expressed through his more than 60 masterworks recordings, but to publishing, radio and television broadcasting, philosophy, scoring feature films, conducting, and generally realizing the tremendous potential that he harbored as a creative genius.

Monsaingeon is a Paris-based concert violinist who has devoted a large part of his time to making musical films. He has directed films about some of the major musicians of our time, including Nadia Boulanger, Yehudi Menuhin, Murray Perahia, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zoltan Kocsis, Paul Tortelier, Julius Katchen and many others. His long associations with Yehudi Menuhin and Glenn Gould have been remarkable and have led to the production of numerous films on various subjects with these two musicians. Two of these productions in particular, "Menuhin in China" and "The Goldberg Variations," have gained worldwide acclaim.

Monsaingeon’s visit is made possible by the School of Music, UO Department of Romance Languages and the Glenn Gould Foundation.

The Pacific Rim Gamelan, the UO’s Indonesian percussion ensemble, will be featured in a children’s concert titled "Exotic Percussion." The one-hour program begins at 10:30 a.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $3 for adults, $2 for children and students, or $5 for a family ticket.

The Pacific Rim Gamelan is composed of many ornate bells, gongs and other percussion instruments from the island of Bali, Indonesia. The program, under the direction of associate professor Robert Kyr, will feature both traditional and recent music for Balinese gamelan, including the premiere of new work written by UO students in the ensemble. Children in the audience also will get to participate in a rhythmic exercise with members of the gamelan.

The Children’s Concert Series, subtitled "Lively Music for Young Listeners," is designed to present children ages 3—12 with a variety of interesting listening experiences, and to expose them to a broad musical spectrum that they might not otherwise encounter.

The School of Music’s World Music Series will present a Javanese Gamelan and Puppet Theater, performing at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $10 general admission and $8 for students and senior citizens.

The program, co-sponsored by the School of Music and the UO Office of International Affairs, features internationally renowned shadow-puppet master and musician Widiyanto S. Putro, along with the Eugene-based Gamelan Sari Pandhawa.

Gamelan Sari Pandhawa is a Javanese ensemble of bronze gongs, metallophones, drums and other traditional instruments. Its members have studied intensively with Widiyanto and other Javanese musicians in the United States and Indonesia. The group regularly presents concerts, lecture-demonstrations and workshops for adults and children in the Eugene area.

Widiyanto S. Putro currently teaches Javanese gamelan at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He has taught at numerous institutions in Indonesia and North America, and has performed as a musician and dhalang (shadow-puppet master) in more than 1,000 concerts in Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.

For more information, contact Mark Levy at (541) 346-2852.

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