EUGENE–Repertoire for vocal ensembles, band and orchestra, as well as original works for various electronic music makers will be performed during the four concerts scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

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.

The UO Men’s Chorus, Women’s Chorus and Vocal Jazz Ensemble will present a full evening of choral music at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission is free.

Each group will perform a separate program, including "Simple Gifts" by Irving Fine, "Sweet Day" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, "My Heart’s In the Highlands" by Douglas Wagner and "Every Night When the Sun Goes Down," arranged by UO Professor Hal Owen.

Jazz selections include "How High The Moon," "Moondance" and "It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t got that Swing."

The Men’s and Women’s choruses will conclude the program by performing three selections together: "Saints Bound for Heaven," "Whether Men Do Laugh or Weep" by Vaughan Williams and "Se Equivocó La Paloma" by Carlos Guastavino.

The Women’s Chorus is directed by Lesa Jacobsen, the Men’s Chorus by Genaro Mendez, and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble by Jason Caffarella. All are graduate teaching fellows.

The UO Campus Band and Campus Orchestra will share a program at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Admission is free.

The Campus Orchestra, directed by Graduate Teaching Fellow Franklin Alvarez, will perform "Brandenburg Concerto No. 1" and "Arioso" by J. S. Bach, "Easy Pieces for String Orchestra" by Bela Bartok and "Ashoken Farewell" (better known as the theme from the PBS series "The Civil War") by Jay Unger.

The Campus Band, led by Graduate Teaching Fellow Suzanne Gindin, will play "Rollo Takes a Walk" by David Maslanka, "First Suite in E-flat" by Gustav Holst and "Panis Angelicus" by Cesar Frank.

Gindin also will conduct a smaller chamber ensemble in Stravinsky’s "Octet for Winds," "Serenade in E-flat" by Richard Strauss and "Emperor of Ice Cream" by UO graduate composer Elyzabeth Meade.

The University Singers, the UO Chamber Choir and the Collegium Musicum will join forces for a concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.

The University Singers, directed by Associate Professor Sharon Paul, and the Collegium Musicum, directed by Assistant Professor Marc Vanscheeuwijck, open the concert with Charpentier’s "Dies Irae," a work for double chorus, eight soloists, strings and continuo. The University Singers continue the program with Debussy’s only works for a cappella choir, the "Trois Chansons de Charles D’Orléans" (Three Songs by Charles D’Orleans).

The UO Chamber Choir, directed by Associate Professor Kathryn Lehmann Olson, will perform portions of J. S. Bach’s Cantata 78, "Pueri Hebraeorum" by Randall Thompson for women’s double chorus, "Ave Maria" by Franz Biebl, "Con te partiro" by L. Quarantoto, "Water Night and Cloudburst" by Eric Whitacre and a series of songs about roses, including "Contre Qui, Rose" and "Oh My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose." Graduate student Tracy Freeze will conduct a portion of the program.

Mark Applebaum, a noted composer of computer music, will be the featured artist in a Future Music Oregon (FMO) concert at 8 p.m. in Room 198 of the Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens. Future Music Oregon is the Computer Music Center at the University of Oregon.

The program will include new works created in the Future Music Oregon studios for live-performance instruments combined with electronics, computer animation, Yamaha Disklavier and Electric Chair–the latter an imaginative instrumental creation involving a standard office swivel chair.

Works by Applebaum on the program include "Intellectual Property I" for Disklavier and improviser, and "S-tog" for mousetrap, mini-mouse, duplex mausphon and live electronics.

In addition, UO graduate student John Villec will present his controversial video and sound installation, "The Exquisite Corpse." Due to the adult content (nude female torso) in the Villec video piece, audience discretion is advised.

The program also will include a new work by Associate Professor Jeffrey Stolet, FMO studio director.

Applebaum, a Stanford University faculty member, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, electro-acoustic and electronic work has been performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He has received commissions from Betty Freeman, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Zeitgeist, Manufacture and the American Composers Forum, among others. His music can be heard on the Innova label.

At 2 p.m. on Monday, June 4, Applebaum will discuss his work and other compositional applications of technology at the FMO studio in Room 74 at the School of Music. The session is free and open to the public.

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