Music Wrap-up for Feb. 11—17
UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY CONCERT TO SHOWCASE FACULTY FEB. 11
January 30,2001
Contact Scott Barkhurst (541) 346-1163 or John R. Crosiar 346-3135
NOTE TO EDITORS: Scanned images of Ellen Campbell, the Oregon String Quartet and conductor Wayne Bennett are available by calling Scott Barkhurst at (541) 346-1163.
EUGENE–The University Symphony will feature several University of Oregon School of Music faculty in a 7:30 p.m. concert on Sunday, Feb. 11, 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, under the direction of Professor Wayne Bennett, includes Vaughan Williams’ "Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" featuring the Oregon String Quartet; "Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 28" by Kurt Atterberg, featuring horn soloist Ellen Campbell; "Divertissement" by Jacques Ibert; and one movement of "Symphonic Dances, Op. 45" by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
The concert is a preview of the orchestra’s upcoming performance at the Northwest Music Educator’s National Conference, to be held Feb. 16—18 in Spokane, Wash. The University Symphony, one of the School of Music’s premier ensembles, is among several select groups chosen from a five-state region to perform for the Northwest music educators.
The Oregon String Quartet is one of the flagship faculty ensembles at the School of Music. Its members include violinists Fritz Gearhart and Kathryn Lucktenberg, violist Leslie Straka and cellist Steven Pologe. Each has broad national and international performing credits, and they have toured as a quartet throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Campbell joined the UO music faculty in 1994 as a professor of horn. She previously served on the faculty at the University of New Mexico, where she was hornist with the New Mexico Brass Quintet, an ensemble with whom she toured Finland, the Soviet Union, Mexico and Australia. She has been principal horn with the Santa Fe and Kalamazoo symphonies and the Austin Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, she has appeared with orchestras in Michigan, Texas, New Mexico, Iowa and Pennsylvania, as well as at several workshops of the International Horn Society.
For more information, call the music school 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.
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