NEXUS to head concert lineup

By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor

A performance by the eclectic Toronto-based percussion group NEXUS—whose members have been known to play "everything from tablas to conch shells"—will be among the concert offerings presented during January and February by the Department of Music.

	Dubbed "the high priests of the percussion world" by The New York Times, the Toronto -based NEXUS will perform Feb. 7 in Slee.

Called "the high priests of the percussion world" by The New York Times and "the Rolling Stones of the new music" by The Toronto Star, NEXUS will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 in Slee Concert Hall on the North Campus. The concert is the third in the Slee/Visiting Artist Series.

Tickets are $12 for the general public, $9 for UB faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens, and $5 for students.

NEXUS also will conduct a master class for UB students at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 7 in Baird Recital Hall, and private critiques for a faculty member and student. The master class will be free and open to the public.

The music department's spring semester concert schedule will kick off Saturday with the Amherst Saxophone Quartet's program "Composer Blowout!" in which the five composers featured in the program participate in a pre-concert talk.

The musical program, set for 8 p.m. in Slee, will feature world premiere performances of "Rise" by Steven Bryant, "Witchcraft Recipes #9 & 9b" by UB faculty member Alejandro Rutty and "Mission Creep" by Keith Carpenter, as well as "Blow!" and "Fault Lines" by Perry Goldstein and "Trash Talk" by Janice Misurell Mitchell.

The pre-concert talk, which will begin at 7:15 p.m., will provide concert patrons with the opportunity to meet and talk with the composers, whose work takes inspiration from such varied sources as rock 'n roll, urban slang, the blues and bebop.

Tickets for "Composer Blowout" are $10 for the general public and $5 for UB faculty, staff, alumni and students, and seniors.

Susan Fancher, UB faculty member and soprano saxophonist with the ASQ, will follow up the "Composer Blowout" with a faculty recital entitled "In Two Worlds" at 8 p.m. Feb. 19 in Slee. Appearing with Fancher will be flutist and UB faculty member Cheryl Gobetti Hoffman and harpist Sonja Inglefeld performing selected pieces as the newly formed Beaufluvian Players.

David Kim-Boyle, director of technology for the Department of Music, will accompany Fancher on the computer in the program's concluding piece, Morton Subotnick's "In Two Worlds" for alto saxophone and live electronics.

Tickets are $5.

Fancher's music department colleagues—clarinetist John Fullam and violinist Movses Pogossian—will present recitals at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Feb. 14, respectively, in Slee.

The award-winning Fullam—principal clarinetist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra—will perform works for the clarinet by Schumann, Willson Osborne and Persis P. Vehar, composer-in-residence at Canisius College. He will be accompanied by pianist Nancy Townsend.

Performing on Valentine's Day accompanied by his wife, violinist Varty Manouelian, Pogossian's program will feature Bartok's "Sonata for Solo Violin," a piece known to be challenging for the musician, both physically and emotionally.

Tickets for both recitals are $5.

The second in a series entitled "Organ Recitals on the Fisk, Op. 95," the 6th Annual Eastman Organist Day will be held at 8 p.m. Feb. 9 in Slee.

Crista Miller, Mark Pacoe and Michelle Rae Martin—doctoral students at the Eastman School of Music, will perform the music of Bach and Brahms, as well as that of other composers ranging from the classical to the contemporary.

Tickets are $5.