Opera: 'Karkinos'
Professor Jacob Bancks' opera "Karkinos" will be performed by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with the Living Proof Exhibit.
This multi-media work features chamber orchestra, vocal soloists and choir. It depicts the story of a beautiful empress who is forced into battle with the unseen monster Karkinos the night before her coronation.
Living Proof Exhibit will host a small art exhibition before and after the performance in the lobby featuring the works of a range of LPE artists. There will be a pre-performance talk at 6:30 p.m.
"Karkinos" was co-commissioned by Living Proof Exhibit and inspired by more than 30 in-person interviews with people whose lives have been impacted by cancer.
The production includes a number of Augustana community members:
Shelley Cooper, stage director
Deb Dakin, viola
Ellen Dixon, costumer
Kelly Hill, mezzo-soprano
Ben Holmes, chorus
Maureen Holmes, chorus
Jon Hurty, chorus
Sonja Hurty, chorus
Sabrina Tabby, violin
Marc Zyla, horn
Christmas at Augustana
The Augustana Symphony Orchestra joins the Augustana Brass Ensemble, Ascension Ringers, Augustana Choir, Augustana Concert Chorale and Jenny Lind Vocal Ensemble in a celebration of the holiday season.
Tickets will go on sale in October.
Concert and Conversation with Peter Buffett
Peter Buffett, Emmy Award-winning musician, composer, author and philanthropist, will perform on the piano and take questions from the audience throughout the show.
The performance features clips from his film, TV, and philanthropic work. He is the youngest son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
Buffett, along with cellist Michael Kott, is touring in support of his "Life Is What You Make It" initiative.
Augustana Choir Home Concert
The Augustana Choir will perform a home concert to conclude its spring tour.
The 52-voice ensemble will sing a selection of traditional and contemporary choral works.
Jazz Combos Concert
The Augustana Jazz Combos will perform. The program is chosen to expand students’ abilities in various jazz styles, with special emphasis on group interaction and improvisation.
Program:
Monday Combo:
Bags' Groove (Milt Jackson)
There Will Never Be Another You (Mack Gordon and Harry Warren)
Sidewinder (Lee Morgan)
Tri-Tone City Septet:
Four (Miles Davis and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson)
Out of Nowhere (Edward Heyman and Johnny Green arr. Jeff Jarvis)
What Do You Say, Dr. J? (James Williams)
Caniac Combo:
Freight Trane (Tommy Flanagan)
Appointment in Milano (Bobby Watson)
Hey Lock (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis)
Clarinets for Conservation
The Augustana Clarinet Studio will present its sixth annual Clarinets for Conservation recital to benefit the Daraja Music Initiative.
This organization is concerned with the preservation of the mpingo tree, which provides the wood from which clarinets are made, and promotes sustainability through music education in Tanzania, where the tree grows.
Musicians in the recital will include Augustana students and members of the community, performing as soloists, chamber musicians, and in a massed clarinet choir.
A free will donation will be collected, with proceeds going to the Daraja Music Initiative.
Masterworks V: Requiem
Verdi’s "Messa da Requiem" is a religious and emotional work. The performance will feature a full chorus lead by Augustana Professor Jon Hurty.
(Another performance will be offered at 8 p.m. March 7 at the Adler Theatre in Davenport.)
One hour prior to each Masterworks performance, concert goers are invited to attend informal pre-concert conversations hosted by Kai Swanson to hear about the works being presented.
"Messa da Requiem" is a musical setting of a Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra. The soloists will be Alexandria Shiner, soprano; Daryl Freedman, mezzo-soprano; Cooper Nolan, tenor; and Steven Humes, bass
The Requiem was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired. The first performance was in Milan, Italy, in 1874, on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.
Augustana Percussion Ensemble: historical journey
The Augustana Percussion Ensemble will take a historical journey from traditional drumming with fifes up to the most contemporary sounds.
Program
• Traditional fife & drum tunes: "The Three Camps" and "The Downfall of Paris"
• Adagio from Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3
• Toccata for Percussion by Carloz Chavez
• Three Poems for Five Brake Drums and Narrator by Stuart Saunders Smith
• Stained Glass by David Gillingham
The ensemble is a chamber group that performs music specifically written for the percussion ensemble from 1930 to the present. Dr. Tony Oliver directs the ensemble.
The ensemble’s concerts present a mix of musical styles — from light to serious to “out there” — and participants play traditional and non-traditional percussion instruments of all kinds. The group serves as a place of additional training for the percussionists in Augustana’s larger ensembles, and as a percussive outlet to anyone on campus interested in percussion or percussion music.
Flute Choir recital
Augustana's Flute Choir will perform, featuring student directors Rebecca Bieber and Ainslie Lounsbury.
The Flute Choir is a chamber ensemble of flutists which makes use of the entire flute family: piccolo, flute, alto flute and bass flute. Founded by instructor Janet Stodd in 1988, the ensemble performs concerts under her direction every term, both on and off campus.
Bieber is a senior from Lake Zurich, Ill., majoring in neuroscience and biology. Lounsbury is a junior from Libertyville, Ill., majoring in instrumental music education and Scandinavian studies.
Janet Stodd and Susan Schwaegler, instructor of the clarinet choir, will perform a duet on the concert.
Faculty recital: Susan Bawden, bassoon, and Janet Stodd, flute
Augustana music instructors Susan Bawden and Janet Stodd will perform on bassoon and flute.
Bawden performs on campus in many recitals, and in the past, the Woodwind Outreach Tours sponsored by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra Association. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in bassoon performance.
She was a charter member of the Quad City Wind Ensemble, and is a charter member of the Classique Quintette. She was been a member of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra from 1976-2016.
Stodd is a flutist for the Symphony's Woodwind Outreach Concerts. She is founder and director of the Augustana Flute Choir and is a member of the National Flute Choir. She is also founder and president of Quad City Flutes Unlimited. Since 2003 she has been principal flutist and orchestra manager for the Quad City Opera Company.