EUGENE–Concerts featuring 20th-century chamber music by faculty performers and art songs by vocal students lead this week’s schedule of events organized by the University of Oregon School of Music.

Also on tap are a performance by African dance guest artists and, beginning Nov. 9, three concerts to open the "Festival of the Millennium," a two-week celebration of contemporary music.

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.

Eight UO music faculty and one graduate student will combine forces for a concert of 20th-century chamber music at 4 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

Selections on the program include a woodwind suite by Darius Milhaud, featuring oboist J. Robert Moore, clarinetist Wayne Bennett and bassoonist Steve Vacchi, and a trio by George Rochberg featuring Bennett, hornist Ellen Campbell and pianist Gregory Mason.

Also to be performed will be Igor Stravinsky’s "Pastorale" featuring a woodwind quintet; a set of three pieces by Livingston Gearhart for woodwind-string sextet; and "Divertimento for Two Violins and Viola" by Quincy Porter, featuring violinists Fritz Gearhart and Leslie Sawyer and violist Leslie Straka.

Also performing on several of the program selections will be flutist LeeAnn Sterling, a graduate teaching fellow.

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 first of three in a series of "Poetry in Song" recitals built on a wide variety of art songs. The performers are graduate and undergraduate students of voice faculty members Ann Tedards, Mark Beudert, Milagro Vargas and Mark Kaczmarczyk.

African dance guest artists Mabiba Baegne Simpson and Fred Simpson of Salt Lake City will set a Congolese dance piece and perform in a fundraiser for Dance Africa, a UO dance troupe that performs in elementary schools.

Their performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the Dougherty Dance Theatre, Rooms 253-254 in the Gerlinger Annex, 1484 University St. Tickets are $6 each, but additional donations welcome.

For information, call the UO Department of Dance, 346-3386.

The School of Music’s Festival of the Millennium, a two-week celebration of contemporary music from the 20th century and beyond, opens this week.

Director Robert Kyr has scheduled more than a dozen events, including a three-day gamelan conference and a residency by celebrated American composer Lou Harrison.

Trio Pacifica, one of the UO School of Music’s resident faculty ensembles, will give a Faculty Artist Series recital to open the Festival of the Millennium. Concert time is 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

Violinist Kathryn Lucktenberg, cellist Steven Pologe and pianist Victor Steinhardt will perform three selections: "Trio in B Major" by Johannes Brahms, "Trio in C Major" by Mozart and "The Wager at the Eldorado Saloon" by Jon Deak. The latter selection is drawn from Jack London’s "The Call of the Wild" and is one of the selections on a recent CD by the trio.

In addition to concerts on the UO campus, Trio Pacifica has appeared throughout the western United States and also has given concerts in Wyoming, Hawaii and Taiwan.

Lucktenberg studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree. In 1979 she made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and within a year after graduation from Curtis, she joined the Honolulu Symphony as concertmaster. During her 11 years in Hawaii, Lucktenberg also was a member of the Honolulu Symphony String Quartet and served on the faculty at the University of Hawaii.

Pologe joined the UO music faculty after 13 years as principal cellist with the Honolulu Symphony. He received his degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He has played with the Rochester and Buffalo philharmonics and the Brooklyn Philharmonia. Pologe also served as principal cellist with the New York String Ensemble, Rome Festival Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonic Symphony of Westchester.

Steinhardt is professor of piano at the University of Oregon. One of this area’s most popular and acclaimed pianists, he has been a featured artist at the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival in California, the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho, the Chamber Music Northwest Series in Portland, Bargemusic chamber series in New York, the Mohawk Trail Concerts in Massachusetts and the Oregon Bach Festival.

The Oregon Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Associate Professor Robert Ponto, will give a Festival of the Millennium concert at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and seniors.

In keeping with the spirit of the festival, the ensemble will perform "Emblems" by Aaron Copland, "Symphony No. 4" by Alan Hovhaness and "Concerto for Wind Orchestra" by Colin McPhee, a rarely performed work based on Balinese gamelan scales and rhythms.

The Oregon Wind Ensemble, one of the music school’s premier ensembles, specializes in contemporary music written for band and wind ensemble.

Future Music Oregon, the Music Technology Program at the University of Oregon, will present a 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.

The program features two pieces by guest composer Chris Chafe of Stanford University–
"Free Motion" for solo stringed instrument and taped computer sound, and "Transect" for computer-generated sound.

Other selections include "The Blue Hole" for computer-generated sound by David Ozab; "Mares" for trombone and computer-manipulated sound by Elyzabeth Meade; "Peep Show" for digital video and computer-manipulated sound by John Villec; "Garden of Kali" for computer-manipulated sound by Joe Waters; and a piece by Jeffrey Stolet titled "from me, to you, to he, to she, to me, to you …" utilizing the Lightning II MIDI Controller, MAX Interactive Environment, the Yamaha Disklavier and the Kyma System.

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