FALL 1997 CONCERT SCHEDULE

For Immediate Release August 14, 1997

Concert admission is $7; $5 students, Harvard staff, and senior citizens; unless otherwise noted. Doors open one-half hour before concert begins. For further information on organ concerts, please call Memorial Church at (617) 495-5508; for concerts in the Fogg, call (617) 495-4544.

Sunday, September 14
In celebration of the Fogg's Maurice Wertheim Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works of art, Joseph Lin, violin, and Benjamin Loeb, piano, will perform an all-French program featuring sonatas for violin and piano by César Franck and Claude Debussy and Lili Boulanger's Nocturne and Cortège. Fogg, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 19
Susan Klotzbach, organist, Stetson University, Florida, Adolphus Busch Hall, 3:00 p.m.

Friday, October 31
Annual Halloween Organ Recital, Adolphus Busch Hall, midnight. Free admission.

Sunday, November 2
Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, organist, Eastern Michigan University, in conjunction with the exhibition Festival Organ at the Boston Public Library (October 18 through November 16), Adolphus Busch Hall, 3:00 p.m. Free admission.

Sunday, November 2
Nan Hughes, mezzo-soprano, and Jeffrey Goldberg, piano, will present Sounds of the City: Music of Seven Hills and Five Boroughs through Six Centuries, a celebration of the music of Rome and New York in conjunction with the exhibition Rome and New York: A Continuity of Cities. This diverse program will feature music from the Iroquois to Isabel Parra, from the caverns of the Colosseum to the heights of Tin Pan Alley, from Handel to Ives, from Berio to Bernstein, from Plainsong to Cole Porter, and will include works by such varied composers as Arlen, Dallapiccola, Mozart, Menotti, Sondheim, Monteverdi, Britten, Cage, Cavalli, Copland, Paisiello, Irving Berlin, Billy Joel, and Virgil Thomson. Fogg, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, November 16
Stewart Wayne Foster, organist, Denton, Texas, and winner of the 1997 Dallas International Organ Competition, Adolphus Busch Hall, 3:00 p.m.

Monday, November 24
Maya Homburger, baroque violin, and Malcolm Proud, harpsichord, will perform 17th- and 18th-century works by Corelli, Couperin, Bach, and Biber. Adolphus Busch Hall, 8:00 p.m.

Cosponsored by the Cambridge Society for Early Music. $18; $15 for students, senior citizens.

Please call (617) 423-2808 to reserve tickets.

Sunday, November 30

The Benjamin Loeb Ensemble will perform in conjunction with the exhibition In/Tuition: A Seminar's Engagement with Joseph Beuys. Conducted by Benjamin Loeb, the ensemble will present German composer Alban Berg's Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Thirteen Winds. The program will include a prelude by the Zephyros Woodwind Quintet. Fogg, 5:30 p.m.

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The Harvard University Art Museums will present the following Kalavati Indian Classical Music concerts in conjunction with the exhibition Gods, Kings, and Tigers: The Art of Kotah.

Tickets are $20 and $25; $5 discount for students with identification. For further information and to purchase tickets, please call (508) 468-2289. Tickets may be purchased at the door only upon availability.

Saturday, September 27
Brij Narayan, sarod, Anindo Chatarjee, tabla, and Priya Chitre, tanpura Paine Hall, 3 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 19
Pandit Ajay Chakravarti, vocal, Kaushiki Chakravarti, vocal, Anindo Chatarjee, tabla, and Guha, harmonium. Sackler lecture hall, 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 16
Ustad Asad Ali Khan, been (Rudra veena), Pandit Gopal Das, pakhawaj, and Priya Chitre, tanpura Paine Hall, 3 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, 7:30 p.m.

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