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Faculty Showcase Opens Crane School of Music Concert Season
01.05.12
The 2012 Crane Faculty Showcase will highlight some of the most exciting classical instrumental and vocal music ever written. Opening the 2012 concert season at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music, the showcase will be offered at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27 in the Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall.
The varied program presents short and well-known standards, including the famous tenor aria “Nessun dorma” from Puccini’s “Turandot,” movements from Ravel’s lovely “Sonatine” transcribed for saxophone, Sarasate’s passionate “Gypsy Tunes” for violin, Poulenc’s elegant clarinet sonata, the rousing “Variations on a Theme by Paganini” for two pianos by Lutosławski, Bernstein’s hilarious duet “We Are Women” from “Candide,” and the passionate baritone aria from Verdi’s “Macbeth.”
Rarer gems include a comic song by Verdi, movements from Saint-Saëns’ romantic clarinet sonata, Mockert's evocative “Suite Argentina” for bassoon, a beautiful Irish ballad and foot-stomping reel for flute and guitar, as well as the dramatic “Trio Pathétique” by Glinka for wind trio.
Especially interesting will be a world premiere by Crane professor Paul Steinberg for solo tuba that pushes that instrument to its limits.
Faculty members performing are Donald George, Deborah Massell, David Pittman-Jennings, Lorraine Yaros Sullivan and Lonel Woods, vocalists; Gary Busch, François Germain, Julie Miller, Kirk Severtson, Kathryn Sherman, Eugenia Tsarov and Paul Wyse, pianists; Doug Rubio, guitar; Jill Rubio, flute; Christopher Creviston, saxophone; Chuck Guy, tuba; Ioan Harea, violin; Carol Lowe, bassoon, and Julianne Kirk Doyle and Raphael Sanders on clarinet.
Please join SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music in its 125th year to celebrate music and musicians offering great performances right in our midst.
To learn more about the long tradition of innovation at Crane, visit www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/125years.
Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York’s only All-Steinway institution, and is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2011.