Music

"As part of a liberal arts education, music challenges us in a unique way. The most intangible of the arts, music can't be touched or seen, yet inevitably we respond to its magic. Discovering the ways we can respond to this creative impulse is an exciting part of what we do."
--Gilbert Seeley, James W. Rogers Professor of Music

Lewis & Clark’s Department of Music provides a high-quality program with a variety of opportunities for students interested in music. Faculty-directed ensembles include a symphonic wind ensemble, two choral groups, orchestra, jazz ensemble, musical theatre, and chamber music groups.

All concerts performed in Evans Music Center unless otherwise noted.

Brett Paschal, Percussionist, Faculty Recital
Wednesday, October 22, 8 p.m.

Sixth Annual Rogers Concert
Thursday, October 23, 8 p.m.

Jesse Knowles, Pianist, Senior Recital
Thursday, November 6, 8 p.m.

Works by Mozart, Fauré, and Copland will be performed by student performers, including Whitney Tuxbury,Meghan French, Christine Jacobson, Emily Kojis, Kate Larson, and LC alumna Emilia Allen.

Wind Ensemble
Sunday, November 9, 4 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel

David M. Becker conducts the 45-member ensemble in wind music from the Classical period through the present. Program includes Overture for Band, Op 24, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy; The Solitary Dancer, Warren Benson; Concerto for Two Horns, Michael Haydn; Culloden, Julie Giroux; Monochrome V, Peter Schickele; Concertino for Four Percussion, David Gillingham; Variations on "America,Charles Ives.

Lewis & Clark Percussion Ensemble
Thursday, November 13, 8 p.m.

Lewis & Clark Jazz Band
Friday, November 14, 8 p.m.

Michele Anderson, Senior Composition Recital
Sunday, November 16, 8 p.m.

The program features "The End of the World is a Love Story," a one-man operetta about TV, madness, and the apocalypse, performed by special guest Peter Hogan. Other works will feature the Lewis and Clark Orchestra, members of Capella Nova, Lewis and Clark graduates Emilia Allen, Brien Hemann, and Sayuri Sazaki, students Megan Moran and Ashley Smith, and Professor of Piano Orla McDonagh. The concert is free.

Cappella Nova
Friday, November. 21, 8 p.m.

Lewis & Clark Orchestra
Sunday, December 7, 8 p.m.

Featuring soloist Barbara Wester Skipworth, soprano; a work by composition student Michele Anderson '03; and Brede Rorstad '02, serving as assistant conductor.

The program begins with P.I. Tchaikovsky - Waltz from "Eugen Onegin", moves to "Miniatures for Orchestra" composed by Michele Anderson '03, adds Four Songs and Arias by von Weber, Bellini, Strauss and Verdi, and climaxes with Beethoven's Symphony #5 in c minor

Electronic Music Concert
Wednesday, December 10, 8 p.m.

World Music Concert
Sunday, December 14, 2 p.m.

Tickets to all student performances are free. Call the Music Department, 503 768-7460