Fullerton Jazz Big Band* and Fullerton Latin Ensemble with special guest, David Torres

8 p.m. Thursday, May 3, 2012
Meng Concert Hall
Bill Cunliffe, director
$10 ($8 Titan discount*)

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*formerly Jazz Ensemble II

University Wind Symphony: Dance Dance Dance!!!

8 p.m. Friday, May 4, 2012
Meng Concert Hall
Mitchell Fennell, conductor
$10 ($8 Titan discount*)

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John Corigliano: Gazebo Dances
Enrique Granados: Danse Espagnole
Andrew Rindfleisch: "Do the Hustle" from The Light Fantastic, Eleanor Weigert, Bass Clarinet Soloist
Leonard Bernstein: "Symphonic Dances" from West Side Story

Film as Collaborative Art Symposium

in collaboration with College of the Arts and Department of Radio, TV, Film funded by the Mission and Goals Initiative

12 p.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Recital Hall
Free admission

Featuring Panel, Lecture-Demonstration of works by guest film music composers
Christopher Young, Thom Sharp and Sharon Farber. Works by Student Filmmakers, Student Film Music Composers.

12-2PM World Electroacoustic Listening Room Project
2PM Stacey Steers, Filmmaker, Animator-Lecture-Demo, Screening of film
3PM Film Music Panel: Chris Young, Sharon, Farber, Thom Sharp, Composers, Veronika Krausus, Moderator
4PM Chris Young, Film Music Composer, Lecture-Demo
5PM Sharon Farber, Film Music Composer, Lecture-Demo
5:30PM Thom Sharp, Film Music Composer, Lecture-Demo
6PM Screening of Student Films, with guest Filmmakers

Film as Collaborative Art Concert

in collaboration with College of the Arts and Department of Radio, TV, Film funded by the Mission and Goals Initiative

8 p.m. Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Meng Hall
Free admission

Featuring New Music Ensemble with guest film composers: Chris Young, Sharon Farber, Thom Sharp, Veronika Krausus, Filmmaker Quintan Ana Wikswo, and CSUF faculty composer Pamela Madsen and CSUF faculty performers: Jean Ferrandis, flute, Larry Timm, oboe and Mikhail Korshev, piano

The Chopin Project

8 p.m. Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Recital Hall
Dr. Rob Watson, Director
Free Admission

Sixteen music students from the Department of Music Keyboard Studies program, will perform the complete preludes for piano, written by Frederic Chopin.

Featured performers include Jessica Cheng, Jennifer Chiou, Jennifer Cho, Craig Davis, Katrina Dobieski, Lawrence Escamilla, Ramin Farhad, Suzy Hae Kim, Lindsay Parsons, Rebecca Pierce, Christie Poetoehena, Cody Smith, Christopher Squires, Ellen Tian, David Zedaker and Chunxing Angela Zhou

Composers Forum

4 p.m. Sunday, May 6, 2012
Recital Hall
Free admission

Featuring Works by Graduate and Undergraduate student Composers Ross Casey, Craig Davis, Christian Gueber, Gabriel Stevens, David Weese, and Ming Jung Wei

Women's Choir & Men's Chorus

8 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Meng Concert Hall
Robert Istad & Christopher Peterson, conductors
$10 ($8 Titan discount*)

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Paul Basler: Sing a New Song to the Lord
arr. Betty Bertaux: Wondrous Love
Z. Randall Stroope: Psalm 23
Eric Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs
Leonard Bernstein: "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story
Stephen Schwartz/arr. Mac Huff : "For Good" from Wicked
Leo Robin & Jule Styne/arr. Mark Hayes: "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"
from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
William Henry Walter: Rise Up, O Men of God
Eric Whitacre: Lux Arumque
Randall Johnson: Festival Gloria
Johannes Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, op. 53
featuring mezzo soprano Laura Harrison  
arr. Marshall Bartholomew: What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?
Tim Y. Jones: Pirate Song 
James Taylor/arr. Simon Carrington: That Lonesome Road
Kurt Knecht: Manly Men 

Guitar Showcase Recital

8 p.m. Friday, May 11, 2012
Recital Hall
$10 ($8 Titan discount*)

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Featuring music for guitar duo, trio, quartet, and flute and guitar

University Symphony Orchestra & Symphonic Chorus - Great Moments in Opera!

8 p.m. Saturday, May 12, 2012
4 p.m. Sunday, May 13, 2012
Meng Concert Hall
Kimo Furumoto & Robert Istad, directors
Kimo Furumoto, conductor
$25 ($20 Titan discount*)

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With guest artists Al Brightbill, Mark Goodrich,
Linda Leyrer, & Patricia Prunty

These performances feature the most beloved choruses and arias from some of the best-known operas. You'll hear "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot; "Anvil Chorus" from Verdi's Il trovatore; "Brindisi" from Verdi's La traviata; "Casta diva" from Bellini's Norma; as well as music from Wagner's Tannhäuser; Puccini's Madama Butterfly; Bizet's Carmen; and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances.

Celebrating the Life, Music, and Career of Professor Rodger Vaughan

3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday, May 27, 2012
Minor Hall (CPAC 119)
Free admission

The celebration will begin with a recital highlighting many of Rodger's compositions. An opportunity to share personal reflections about Rodger will follow with a dessert reception. This will be a relatively casual, lighthearted affair. As one of Rodger’s close friends recently put it, “Rodger would have nothing to do with sappy, depressing stuff.”

The recital is being coordinated by Rodger’s longtime friend and colleague, Bert Harclerode. We anticipate a joyous and fun musical afternoon, just as Rodger would have it, a reunion of his many generations of music theory and composition students.

Free parking is available in the Nutwood Parking Structure (at the corner of Nutwood and State College). From the structure, walk toward the campus, and then turn right following Clayes Performing Arts Center on your left. At the pedestrian stop sign, turn left into the building. For those of you coming from out of town, there is a Marriott Hotel on campus, and a Holiday Inn on Nutwood, just east of the 57 freeway.

For those of you who have not been back to campus in a while, we’ll provide a brief tour of Meng Concert Hall and adjacent facilities as the reception winds down.

Again, if you would, be sure to RSVP to Music Department Office Coordinator Sue Winston at swinston@fullerton.edu or 657/278-3512 if you can attend. We greatly look forward to seeing many of Rodger’s friends, colleagues, and students as we celebrate this wonderful and wonderfully human character we’ve been privileged to have in our lives.