Please check the Concert Hotline (540-568-3481) for venue and time changes.
February 4 - 7, 2009
James Madison University School of Music
Guest Artists:
Daniel McCarthy, composer; Bruce Hamilton, composer
Joanne Kong & Paul Hanson, pianists
Click here to download the complete CMF program (adobe format)
Wednesday, February 4
12:20 pm - Brown Bag Lecture: Stephen Kennamer, “Musical Outliers: Rounding Up the Unusual Suspects for a Look at 20th Century Music” Taylor Hall Room 404
1:25 pm - Composition Masterclass with Dan McCarthy, Music Building Room 204
5:00 pm - Barnes & Noble Event with Dan McCarthy, Bruce Hamilton and
Kong & Hanson Duo, Harrisonburg Crossing
8:00 pm - Concert I – featuring the Madison Singers and the JMU Symphony with
James Kluesner, trumpet, Wilson Hall Auditorium
• Post-concert discussion with John Hilliard and Dan McCarthy
Thursday, February 5
9:30 am - Listening and Discussion with Bruce Hamilton, Wilson Hall Auditorium
11:00 am - Dan McCarthy, “Music: Teaching the Mind to Think” Wilson Hall Auditorium
8:00 pm - Concert II – Joanne Kong & Paul Hanson, duo pianos
Scintillating Centenarians: A Celebration of the 100th Birthdays of Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen in Words, Images and Music, Wilson Hall Auditorium
Friday, February 6
1:25 pm - Piano masterclass with Joanne Kong & Paul Hanson, Wilson Hall Auditorium
8:00 pm - Concert III – featuring JMU faculty, student performers and the JMU Percussion Ensemble, Wilson Hall Auditorium
•Post-concert discussion with Daniel McCarthy and Bruce Hamilton
Saturday, February 7
3:00 pm - Student Composers Concert – featuring the winners of the JMU Young Composers’ Competition, Music Building Room 108
8:00 pm - Concert IV – featuring JMU Chorale, faculty and student performers,
Wilson Hall Auditorium
Tickets
Tickets for Concerts I - IV are $6 ($3 students/seniors)
Pass for all four concerts is $20 ($10 students/seniors)
Tickets are available at the door or at the Music Office (Music Building Room 123)
All other events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Jason Haney at haneyjx@jmu.edu or 540.568.6664.
More information about our guest composers is available at the following websites:
http://dmccarthycomposer.com/ (Daniel McCarthy)
http://www.nonsequiturmusic.com/hamiltoncat.htm (Bruce Hamilton, list of works)
http://www.nonsequiturmusic.com/hamilton.htm (Bruce Hamilton, bio)
