|
 Music
Mondays, now in its fifth season, presents a diverse lineup of artists
in four performances at King Chapel, the centerpiece of the historic Cornell
College campus. Concerts begin at 8 p.m. General admission is $8 at the
door.
The performance schedule is:
Monday, October 14, 2002 - InVenTionS, classical
music and mime quartet
Monday, November 11, 2002 - Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Monday, January 27, 2003 - Ethos Percussion Group
Monday, March 3, 2003 - Deanna Bogart Band, boogie
and blues band
InVenTionS,
classical music and mime quartet
October 14, 2002
 Taking
their name from Bach's Fifteen Two-Part Inventions, clarinetists
John Bruce Yeh and Teresa Reilly join mimes T. Daniel and Laurie Willets
for an audiovisual interpretation that takes the "stuffiness"
out of classical mime and pushes the bounds of staged classical music.
Yeh and T. Daniel appeared at Cornell in 1998 with Chicago Pro Musica,
a Grammy-winning chamber group of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with
which Yeh is assistant principal and Reilly has been a frequent performer.
Both mimes have studied with Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux, "Father
of Modern Mime." The program will include the Fifteen Two-Part
Inventions, Beethoven's Duo No. 1 for Clarinet and Bassoon, and Igor
Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo.
Back to Top
Minneapolis
Guitar Quartet
Nov. 11, 2002
 Founded
in 1986, the quartet has become one of North America's leading and most
versatile guitar ensembles, performing Spanish, baroque, and classical
music, as well as a wide variety of contemporary music with such diverse
influences as jazz, folk, world music, and avant-garde. While the repertoire
features pieces arranged by its members, the quartet is famous for its
pioneering efforts to commission and premiere works. The Cornell concert
will include Dancing at the Century's End by associate professor
of music Don Chamberlain, a piece commissioned for the Mid-American Guitar
Ensemble Festival in 1996. The quartet's appearances have taken them around
the country and put them on the air for nationally syndicated radio programs
Saint Paul Sunday Morning and Performance Today. Their two
CDs, New Works for Guitar Quartet and Over Land and Sea,
have received unanimous critical acclaim in the United States and Europe.
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet performed during the inaugural Music Mondays
season in 1998.
Back to Top
Ethos
Percussion Group
Jan. 27, 2003
 Hailed
by the New York Times for its "expert togetherness, sensitivity,
and zest," Ethos Percussion Group employs an eclectic battery of
instruments from around the globe on a variety of musical styles - including
Guatemalan marimba music, high-energy Japanese taiko drumming, and contemporary
masterworks by John Cage and Lou Harrison. The ensemble's premiere of
Cedar Rapids native Michael Daugherty's Used Car Salesman, commissioned
for Ethos by Hancher Auditorium and the University of Iowa, was heard
on NPR's Morning Edition in April 2000. Individually, the members
of Ethos have performed and recorded with the American Symphony, Philharmonia
Virtuosi, New World Symphony, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, New Music Consort,
and the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater, as well as with the orchestras
for many Broadway productions, including Phantom of the Opera,
Beauty and the Beast, and Sunset Boulevard.
Back to Top
Deanna
Bogart Band, boogie and blues band
March 3, 2003
 Blending
1930s boogie piano blues with the contemporary blues of New Orleans, Chicago,
and Memphis, Deanna Bogart is a high-energy, piano-pounding performer
in the same vein as Marcia Ball, who packed the house during Cornell's
first Music Mondays season in 1998. Bogart hit the scene more than 20
years ago with Cowboy Jazz, a group dedicated to the music of the 1940s
western swing, then turned to R&B with another East Coast band, Root
Boy Slim's Capitol Offense, before forming her own band in 1988. She's
shared the stage with BB King, James Brown, Buddy Guy, the Neville Brothers,
Ray Charles, and Stevie Nicks. Her sixth CD, Timing is Everything,
is due in late 2002. Joining vocalist/pianist/saxophonist Bogart in the
band is Eric Scott on bass, Mike Aubin on drums, and Kajun Kelley on guitar.
Back to Top
2001-2002 Music Mondays
2000-2001 Music Mondays
1999-2000 Music Mondays
1998-1999 Music Mondays
|
