All aboard for Herberger College Music Events!
Escape to the School of Music for 2007-2008 concerts and performances
Expand your music experience during the 2007-2008 Herberger College School of Music performance season. Outstanding faculty, internationally acclaimed guest artists and exceptional students bring you some of the best entertainment in the state. The season begins Sept. 20 and presents extraordinary operas, musicals, and organ, jazz, band, orchestra, choir and guitar concerts.
All productions are economically priced and subscription packages are on sale now through July 11. Patrons can save up to $8 per show by taking advantage of packages that are designed to fit every lifestyle and budget. Single tickets go on sale July 12. Prices for single tickets vary by show. The Herberger College School of Music is home to more than 650 fabulous events annually, so check herbergercollege.asu.edu/calendar or call 480.965.6447 for even more concerts available throughout the season.
SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
GUITAR
Jorge Caballero
Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Katzin Concert Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Praised by the New York Times for his “illuminating clarity and touching gracefulness,” Peruvian guitarist Jorge Caballero is regarded as one of the most remarkable young guitarists to have emerged during the past decade.
Xufei Yang
Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Katzin Concert Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
The young Chinese virtuoso Xufei Yang is a rising star who enthralls audiences throughout the world with her dramatic interpretations and technical prowess on the guitar.
JAZZ
Big Band Blast Off
Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Katzin Concert Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Chicago’s hardest working drummer, Joel Spencer, and the ASU Jazz Repertory
Band rock the house with vintage selections from the history of big band music including Bill Reddie’s adaptation of West Side Story for the Buddy Rich Big Band.
The Music of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis
Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Katzin Concert Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Drummer Joel Spencer, saxophonist Dick Oatts and the ASU Concert Jazz Band celebrate the musical legacy of the Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Orchestra.
The Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Nov. 27, 7:30 p.m.
Katzin Concert Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn together shaped the history of jazz. The ASU
Jazz Repertory Band performs some of their forgotten treasures, as well as better
known classics.
Bop Until You Drop
Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m.
Katzin Concert Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
East coast saxophonist Greg Abate provides proof beyond doubt that bebop is alive and well as he ignites the stage with the ASU Concert Jazz Band and Jazz Combos.
The Music of Oscar Peterson
Jan. 27, 2:30 p.m.
Katzin Concert Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Michael Kocour and piano students in the ASU Jazz Studies program pay homage
to this giant of jazz piano. The program includes selections from Oscar Peterson’s Bursting Out CD featuring big band arrangements by Ernie Wilkins.
Trombonist Curtis Fuller
March 25, 7:30 p.m.
Evelyn Smith Music Theatre, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Curtis Fuller recently was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and is one of original members of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He kicks off Jazz Week 2008 with the ASU Jazz Repertory Band and members of the ASU Jazz Faculty for an evening of jazz with soul.
Vocalist Mark Murphy
March 26-27, 7:30 p.m.
Evelyn Smith Music Theatre, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Join the Downbeat reader’s poll winner and six-time Grammy nominee Mark Murphy, with the ASU Jazz Ensembles and Faculty (March 26) and the ASU Concert Jazz Band (March 27) as part of Jazz Week 2008.
MUSICALS
She Loves Me
Sept. 28-29 & Oct. 3, 5-6, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 30, 2 p.m.
Evelyn Smith Music Theatre, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Funny, intelligent, honest and sentimental, She Loves Me is a romantic musical comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old world elegance. It’s nostalgic, but relevant as ever in this age of Internet romances.
Urinetown
April 18, 23 & 26, 7:30 p.m.; April 19-20 & 26-27, 2 p.m.
Paul V. Galvin Playhouse, 51 E. 10th St., ASU Tempe campus.
Set in the not-too-distant future in the wake of the privatization of water, Urinetown musically mocks and celebrates the healthy tension between corporate greed, water conservation and an impassioned revolution sparked by fees for public toilets. This project is a collaboration between the School of Music Lyric Opera Theatre program and the School of Theatre and Film.
OPERAS
Luisa Fernanda
Nov. 15, 17 & Nov. 28, 30-Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 18, 2 p.m.
Evelyn Smith Music Theatre, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
This Spanish zarzuela takes place during the Spanish revolution and involves the story of dueling suitors and a fickle heart. Sung in Spanish with English supertitles.
Giulio Cesare
Feb. 22-23, 29 & March 1, 7:30 p.m.
Evelyn Smith Music Theatre, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Sibling rivalry reigns supreme in this operatic tale of intrigue and betrayal as
Cleopatra battles for the rule of Egypt and the heart of Caesar. Sung in Italian
with English supertitles.
ORGAN
A Dutch Treat: Sweelinck and his Pupils
Oct. 14, 2:30
Organ Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Gail Archer of the Manhattan School of Music performs music by the 17th-century Orpheus of Amsterdam.
Pipes and Strings
Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m.
Organ Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Goldman Professor of Organ Kimberly Marshall and Thomas Landschoot regale audiences with music for organ and cello.
5th Annual Organ Christmas Concert
Dec. 8-9, 2:30 & 5 p.m.
Organ Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Goldman Professor of Organ Kimberly Marshall and the ASU Organ Studio invite you to a special holiday concert celebrating the beautiful music of Christmas.
Mendelssohn and the Organ
Feb. 3, 2:30 p.m.
Organ Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
So-Yi Ahn earned her D.M.A. from ASU in 2004 and returns to share her research on Mendelssohn in this program.
The Amplified Organ: Music with Electro-acoustic Sounds
Feb. 17, 2:30 p.m.
Organ Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
American organist Gary Verkade presents a program of contemporary organ music, showing the many dimensions of the instrument. A true kaleidoscope of sound!
Going for Baroque!
March 9, 2:30 p.m.
Organ Hall, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
Goldman Professor of Organ Kimberly Marshall presents a program of early and late Baroque music, featuring the Fritts and Traeri organs.
Pass in Review
Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m., ASU Gammage, 1200 S. Forest Ave.
Enjoy an all-bands spectacular featuring the ASU Sun Devil Marching Band.
Holiday Concert
Dec. 2, 2:30 p.m., ASU Gammage, 1200 S. Forest Ave.
The ASU Symphony Orchestra and Choral Union present a traditional family concert featuring music from Haydn’s The Creation as well as other seasonal favorites.
Handel’s Messiah
March 5, 7 p.m., Evelyn Smith Music Theatre, School of Music building, 40 E. Gammage Pkwy., ASU Tempe campus.
The ASU Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra perform Handel’s Messiah in its entirety.
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