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Guarneri quartet to perform in Slee cycle
By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor
The Guarneri String Quartet will join the golden anniversary celebration of the Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle on Oct. 28 and Oct 30 by presenting the third and fourth concerts in this unique program.
The Guarneri String Quartet will visit UB as part of the golden anniversary season of the Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle. Quartet members will perform two concerts, give an informal talk and teach a master class to UB music students.
The concerts will be held at 8 p.m. on Oct. 28 and 3 p.m. on Oct. 30 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Joining the Guarneri on the Department of Music's concert schedule for October will be the Slee Sinfonietta, UB's resident chamber ensemble, which will perform on Oct. 7, and Buffalo Philharmonic clarinetist and UB faculty member John Fullam, who will perform on Oct. 18.
The UB Department of Music is the only concert presenter in the world that annually programs the complete string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, and the university is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this landmark series with performances by three distinguished string quartets, each of which is performing two concerts in the six-concert cycle. The Muir String Quartet performed the first two concerts, while the Tokyo String Quartet will present the final two concerts.
As part of the celebration, the first concert of each pair will provide audience members an opportunity to hear a pre-concert lecture by a distinguished UB faculty member. Cellist and composer Jonathan Golove will present the lecture before the first concert by the Guarneri at 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 28 in Lippes hall. Following that concert, audience members can meet the artists at a reception in the Slee Hall lobby sponsored by Kappa Kappa Psi, UB's band fraternity.
The anniversary celebration also will feature an informal discussion with quartet members prior to the second concert of each pair. Members of the Guarneri—Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley, violins; Michael Tree, viola; and Peter Wiley, cello—will talk about their careers and the string quartets of Beethoven at 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 30 in Lippes hall.
Quartet members will teach a master class to UB music students from 10 a.m. to noon on Oct. 29 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus. The class will be free and open to the public.
Tickets for each of the Guarneri's concerts are $15 for the general public; $12 for UB faculty/staff/alumni, senior citizens and WNED members with card; and $5 for students.
The Slee Sinfonietta, led by music director Magnus Mårtensson, will open its 2005-06 season by offering a special program of works by 20th-century master composers at 8 p.m. on Oct. 7 in Lippes hall.
The program will be "Quiet City," Aaron Copland; "Chansons madecasses," Maurice Ravel; "Dover Beach," Samuel Barber; and "L'Histoire du soldat," Igor Stravinsky.
The Slee Sinfonietta was formed in 1997 by Mårtensson and David Felder, Birge-Cary Chair in Composition in the Department of Music, with the mission of performing very early and very recent classical music at the highest level.
Tickets for the concert are $12 for the general public; $9 for UB faculty/staff/alumni, senior citizens and WNED members with a card; and $5 for students.
Principal clarinetist of the Buffalo Philharmonic, John Fullam will collaborate with pianist Nancy Townsend in a recital at 8 p.m. Oct. 18 in Lippes hall.
The program will be "Rondo in F," Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; "Romanze," Richard Strauss; "Berceuse" from the four-act grand opera, "Jocelyn," Benjamin Godard; and Sonata in E-flat for clarinet and piano, Op. posth., Felix Mendelssohn.
This will be the first performance at UB for all pieces on the program, except for the Benjamin Godard piece.
Tickets are $5; UB students are admitted free with ID.
A New York City native, Fullam, holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the Juilliard School and a diploma from the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg.
He has appeared professionally with many great musicians, including Eugene Ormandy, Pablo Casals, Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Bernstein and Leon Fleisher. He has won the National Arts Club Award, the Bergen Philharmonic Concerto Competition, the Diploma d'Honore from the Italian Government, the C.D. Jackson Master Award, the U.S. Components Inc. Fellowship Grant and the Massachusetts State Concerto Competition.
Tickets to all Department of Music concerts are available at the Slee Hall box office from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, at the Center for the Arts box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and at all Ticketmaster outlets