Music Department to open 60-concert season Sept. 10

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

The year-long program will present 60 concerts featuring such artists as the Muir String Quartet in a presentation of the entire Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle; fortepianist Malcolm Bilson; a program of clarinet quintets performed by John Fullam and guest artists, and a concert by the UB Percussion Ensemble led by Anthony Miranda.

Special events will include Percussionist Kirk Brundage who opens the season Tuesday, Sept. 10, with "Europerc," a program of solo percussion music from the European continent. The performance begins at 8 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall. Tickets are $6 and $8. This is the first of three programs by Brundage, a native of Clarence who studied at UB under master percussionist Jan Williams. While at UB, he won a rare undergraduate Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Royal Danish Conservatory and later earned a master of fine arts degree at the California Institute of the Arts.

Other special events include a concert by Music Department alumni to celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the university, the annual Scholarship Benefit Concert and a performance by the Schubert Ensemble of London.

The Slee Visiting Artist Concert Series opens Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall. with a concert celebrating the fertile melodic invention of composer Franz Schubert, in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of his birth. It will be presented by one of the most dynamic and exciting duos in America, baritone Sanford Sylvan and his longtime collaborator, pianist David Breit-man.

A lecture by the noted musicologist and

author Susan Youens, professor of music at the University of Notre Dame. will precede the concert at 7:15.

The concert program will feature Schubert's Drei KlavierstŸcke, D. 946 (1828) and Die Schšne MŸllerin, D. 795 (1933). Tickets are $10, $8, $5 and $4.

Other events in the Slee series include The Meridian Arts Ensemble performing a concert of J.S. Bach and Frank Zappa! Duo pianists Frina and Kenwyn Boldt will perform Bartok's Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion accompanied by percussionist Anthony Miranda. There also will be a solo performance by classical guitarist Oscar Ghiglia, choral concerts, an opera workshop, a trombone choir and symphonic band-and from the world of Louis XIV, Les Violons du Roy (The Violins of the King) chamber orchestra.

The Slee Organ Recital Series and the Resident Quartet Series with the Amherst Saxophone Quartet will again offer innovative programs.

Tickets may be obtained by phone or in person from any Ticketmaster outlet, 852-5000, or in person from the UB Center for the Arts Ticket Office, 645-ARTS (open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 6 p.m.) Season subscriptions are available only by calling Slee Hall Box Office at 645-2921.

You can call up the Slee Concert Hall home page on the Internet at http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/music/events/slee.html.