News
Concert Choir's Wine Tasting and Silent Auction Benefit: 7 p.m. Dec. 3
Friday, 21 Nov 2008
Marietta College's Concert Choir will hold a Wine Tasting and Silent Auction benefit in support of their upcoming tour to Brazil. The event will take place at the Marietta Country Club at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 3. Tickets are $40 per person. Included in the cost is the wine tasting, food, entertainment and a free wine glass.
The wine tasting features 10 wines from WineTree Vineyards in Vienna, W.Va. The wonderful new winery is owned and operated the Craig Bandy family and all of their wines are made on site drawing on more than 30 years of experience in wine making.
The silent auction includes a variety of items including a week-long stay in beautiful New Hampshire, paintings, pottery, antiques, tickets to art events, autographed sports memorabilia, wine collections, quilts and much more.
While traveling as guests of the Brazilian government, the 42 members of the choir will have the opportunity to give joint concerts with several Brazilian college choirs as part of an exchange of cultures.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please call (740) 376-4696.
Music Ensembles and Pre-Professional Organizations sponsor Food Drive
Thursday, 20 Nov 2008
With the holiday season upon us, the difficulties and needs of families in the Marietta community become very apparent. With that in mind, the instrumental and choral ensembles of the Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music, the Collegiate Music Educator National Conference (CMENC) and Mu Beta Psi National Honorary Music Fraternity are sponsoring a food drive to help the Marietta Food Pantry.
Donation boxes will be present in the lobby of Hermann Fine Arts Center beginning Monday, Dec. 1 and will remain there through Saturday, Dec. 6. Donation boxes will also be present in the lobby as you enter Fenton Court on the night of the Music Department Holiday Concert.
Members of the college campus, students, staff, faculty and community members are encouraged to assist with this drive. Simply come by Hermann Fine Arts Center during the first week of December and drop off your donations.
Donations can be easily made when attending the Music Department Holiday Concert at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5 at Fenton Court. As attendees enter Ban Johnson Field House donation drop-off boxes will be located in the lobby to accept all donations of non-perishable food items.
Persons attending the Merry Tuba Christmas performance at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6 in the lobby of Hermann Fine Arts Center will also find donation drop-off boxes present for convenience.
Please help our community by making a donation, no matter how large or small. Everything will help someone in need.
Five Groups Featured in Annual Holiday Concert: 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5
Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008
The Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music is pleased to announce their annual Holiday Concert on Friday, Dec. 5, at Fenton Court. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and admission is free. A free-will offering will be taken. The concert features performances by five of the college’s 15 instrumental and vocal ensembles including the Women’s Choir, Men’s Ensemble and Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Daniel Monek and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Marshall Kimball.
An annual treat for campus and community members alike, the concert will feature a variety of music for the holiday season and will conclude with combined performance by all of the groups. An addition to this year’s concert will be an audience sing along of familiar carols of the season.
The ensembles of the Music Department, CMENC and Mu Beta Psi are conducting a food drive for the Marietta Food Pantry. Members of the audience are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the concert for the food drive. Food donations can be dropped in the large boxes that will be provided in the lobby entering Fenton Court. These donations will be taken to the Marietta Food Pantry to assist those in need during this holiday season.
Ensemble Information
The Women’s Choir is a non-auditioned choir with more than 40 singers devoted to performing the finest literature written for the female voice.
The Men’s Ensemble is a non auditioned choir of more than 20 singers devoted to performing both new and traditional literature for men’s voices.
The Concert Choir is one of five choral ensembles at Marietta College and one of the college’s oldest organizations. This auditioned group of 45 singers is composed entirely of members of the student body representing every academic division and nearly every major at Marietta College. As ambassadors of the college, the choir performs annually throughout the continental U.S. In 2006, the choir became the first American college or university choir to perform for the Chinese Choral Directors Seminar held at Beijing Conservatory in the People’s Republic of China and in 2002 was honored with invitations to perform in both St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome during their tour of Italy. The choir is currently scheduled to tour Brazil in 2009. They toured the Southeastern U.S. in 2008. In 2005 the choir released its first compact disc recording, When in the Presence of Music and will release its second recording, The Way of Memories in the near future. Under Monek’s direction, the ensemble has received consistent praise for the quality and expression of its performances.
The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, comprised of approximately 75 members, is the college’s premier instrumental ensemble and provides students and community members with the opportunity to rehearse and perform high quality wind and percussion repertoire.
The Jazz Ensemble is Marietta College’s newest music ensemble and provides students and opportunity to perform jazz, rock, and swung literature.
For further information, please contact the department of music at (740) 376-4696.
College celebrates 82nd year of performing Handel’s Messiah: 7 p.m. Dec. 7
Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008
The Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music is pleased to announce its 82nd year of performing Handel’s Messiah. This year's performance is at 7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, at Marietta High School.
Since 1926, the same year that saw the start of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, members of the community have joined with Marietta College faculty, staff and students to present Handel’s Messiah. As we continue this Mid-Ohio Valley tradition the music department is preparing to present its 155th performance. The concert is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken.
This annual event organized and sponsored by Marietta College’s Department of Music involves professional orchestra and four professional soloists and one student soloist under the direction of Dr. Daniel Monek, Associate Professor of Music.
Conductor
Monek is Division Coordinator of Arts & Humanities and Chair of the Edward E. MacTaggart Music department at Marietta College where he directs the Concert Choir, Women’s Choir, Oratorio Chorus, Chamber Singers and Men’s Ensemble. He has received his Ph.D. in Music from Edinburgh University (Scotland) and holds degrees in Music Education and Vocal Performance from the University of South Florida. Monek has taught music in Florida’s public schools and was the founding Artistic and Musical Director of the New Edinburgh Orchestra in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He has served as the music director of several churches, as Secretary/Treasurer for the Florida Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, as Chairman of Scotland for the association of the British Choral Directors, on the board of the Central Division of the American Choral Directors Association as the editor-in-chief of the division’s newsletter and as the conference coordinator for the Ohio Choral Directors Association. He currently serves as the President of the Ohio Association of Music Schools.
Soloists
Dr. Douglas Anderson, bass-baritone, serves Marietta College as Director of the Library. He has studied voice with Thomas Bolton and Marion Alch, music theory with Gregory Proctor, Douglass Green and Stephan Kostka, and musicology with Charles Atkinson. He holds the Ph.D. in Music Theory from the Ohio State University, master's degrees in Library Science and Music Theory from Kent State University and the University of Texas, respectively, and a bachelor's degree in Vocal Music Performance from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas.
Active as a professional choral singer, Anderson has performed with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, the Carnegie Hall (N.Y.) Choral Workshop, and the Heritage Chamber Singers of Greenville, S.C., as well as Cantari Singers and Opera Columbus, both in Columbus, Ohio. His solo engagements have included the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Community Singers, the Augusta (Ga.) Choral Society and the Greenville (S.C.) Chorale. He has sung professionally in various choruses under such noted conductors as Robert Shaw, Charles Dutoit, Neville Marriner, Norman Luboff, James Conlon, Alice Parker and Robert Page. A specialist in Schenkerian analytic theory, Anderson has also taught music theory, analysis and counterpoint at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., Furman University in Greenville, S.C., and Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.
Ray Bauwens, tenor, is well known to audiences in the New England area. His musicianship, acting and vocal skills have drawn praise from audiences and critics alike. Some of Bauwens’ recent performances have included such roles as Jean in Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Cavaradssi in Tosca, Ezno in La Gioconda, and Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusicana. He is equally at home in oratorio and concert works as his performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Verdi’s Requiem and Benjamin Briten’s War Requiem among others. Bauwens also traveled to Kiev in order to record Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, which has been released by Naxos Records.
Jean Couchie Burnquist, soprano, received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Mount Union College and holds an Master of Music in Sacred Music Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from The Ohio State University. Burnquist is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs.
For further information, please contact the department of music at (740) 376-4696.
Marietta Bands presenting Merry Tuba Christmas: Dec. 6
Monday, 17 Nov 2008
The Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music of Marietta College will host Merry Tuba Christmas on Saturday, Dec. 6 in the Hermann Fine Arts Center. This event will begin with registration on the second floor of Hermann Fine Arts Center from 1-1:30 p.m. The ensemble will rehearse from 1-3:30 p.m. at Hermann and will perform a free public concert beginning at 4 p.m. in the lobby of Hermann. Area tuba, baritone and euphonium players are invited to participate in this event and the public is invited to the free concert.
Merry Tuba Christmas is celebrating its 35th Anniversary (1974-2008). Created by Harvey Phillips, Merry Tuba Christmas “2008” concerts will be presented in more than 200 cities throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. Phillips was inspired to create Merry Tuba Christmas as an annual event honoring his teacher, the late great tubist, William J. Bell (born Christmas Day, 1902).
Every Christmas season, tuba and euphonium players of all ages, from specific geographic areas, gather to pay respect-through William J. Bell-to all the great artists/teachers who represent their heritage. Every Merry Tuba Christmas performance features traditional Christmas carols specially arranged for the first Merry Tuba Christmas (Dec. 22, 1974, in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza) by American composer Alec Wilder (died Christmas Eve, 1980). Through Wilder, Merry Tuba Christmas concerts pay grateful tribute to composers who have embraced these noble instruments with solo and ensemble compositions. Depending on the population of any given geographic area, Merry Tuba Christmas ensembles may attract hundreds of participants aged 8-95 years. The warm and rich, organ-like sound of this low brass choir has wondered the ears and hearts of every audience. It is no wonder that Tuba Christmas has become an established Christmas tradition in cities through the world.
For more information on this event, contact Prof. Marshall C. Kimball, Director of Bands and Instrumental Activities at Marietta College, (740) 376-4686.
Fall Small Ensemble Recital: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2
Monday, 17 Nov 2008
The Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music announces the Marietta College Fall Small Ensemble Recital. The recital will be held at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. The concert is open to the public and is free of charge. The Small Ensembles are under the direction of Professor Marshall C. Kimball.
In its third year of existence, the Small Ensemble Recital allows for the development of the instrumental music program through the performance in small ensembles. Ensembles included in this recital will be the Brass Quintet, Horn Trio, Saxophone Quartet, Trumpet Trio, Flute Trio and Saxophone Quintet.
The repertoire for this concert will include music from the baroque through the contemporary period. Music written by Kabalevsky, Liszt, Haydn, Bach, Nagel, Handel, Farnaby, Lully, Beethoven, Andersen, Givannini, Hook, Knudsvig, Hall, Solomon and Brahms will be performed. The repertoire will offer all those in attendance a variety of musical periods, styles, and genres.
“The instrumental small ensemble program has been developed to help the individual musicians become more proficient on their chosen instrument. Each individual in a small ensemble is the only person playing a particular part, which puts emphasis on individual preparation and technical development," said Kimball, Director of Bands and Instrumental Activities. "Musical training of this type of ensemble playing always develops the individual player and also feeds into the further development of the full symphonic wind ensemble.”
Hermann Fine Arts T-Shirt sale
Monday, 10 Nov 2008
Marietta College's chapter of the Collegiate Music Educators National Conference is selling Hermann Fine Arts T-Shirts. The maroon colored T-shirts feature a “Hermann Crab” with the saying “I’m a Hermann Crab.” T-shirts are $10 for sizes small through extra large, and $12 for XXL and XXXL.
Orders will be taken through Friday, Dec. 5. Shirts will be delivered at the beginning of second semester. All orders must be pre-paid with checks made out to: Marietta College CMENC.
You can see the full design on posters in Hermann Fine Arts Center.
To place an order see any member of the CMENC group or Professor Marshall Kimball in Room 209 of Hermann Fine Arts Center.
