This term's Vaughan recital series will showcase the extraordinary talent of recognized musical virtuosos, talented professors and Dartmouth students. All the events will take place in the Faulkner Recital Hall of the Hopkins Center.
Pamela Van Siclen, the music department's administrative assistant, is in charge of coordinating this term's series.
The Vaughan series is Dartmouth's "arena for Dartmouth faculty and students to perform," she said.
Today at 12:30 p.m. pianist Frederic Rzewski will present a recital with the Christian Wolff Symposium to recognize the music professor's powerful works and 25 years of commitment to the Dartmouth faculty. The recital will feature a performance of "De profundis," the extraordinary work based on a text by Oscar Wilde.
On Sunday, Jan. 14 pianist Andrew O'Brien will be presenting a program, including Schubert's "Wanderer Fantasy," Copeland's "Chromatic Piano Variations" and Bach's "Chromatic Fantasy" and "Fugue."
Dartmouth's very own talent will have a chance to shine when tenor Michael Roberts '96 with pianist Daniel Weiser will present a program including works by Handel, Mozart and Schubert, along with a set of songs by William Guerin '96. Soprano Pamela Spann '96 will assist in the program, performing works by Giordani and Scarlatti on Sunday, Jan. 21 at 4:00 p.m.
On Sunday, Feb. 4, pianist Marcia Eckert will present a lecture and recital titled "Brava!" highlighting the piano music of four women composers: Ursula Manlok, Clara Schumann, Germaine Taileserre and Louise Talma. The performance will begin at 4:00 p.m.
Concert pianist Benjamin Oren of the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, will be performing works by Bach, Chopin and Debussy on Sunday, Feb. 11 at 4:00 p.m.
On Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 12:30 p.m., violinist and Earth Sciences Professor Leslie Sonder will be joined by clarinetist Nancy Fiske, soprano Holly Loring and pianist Ronni Schwartz. Works include "Shepherd on the Rock" by Franz Schubert.
Actor and English Professor William Cook and pianist Classics Professor James Tatum will be performing Tennyson's "Enoch Arden," a melodrama for actor and piano, Op. 38 by Richard Strauss, on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 4:00 p.m.
Then on Wednesday, Feb. 28, soprano Jennifer Land '96 will be singing works by Brahms, Schumann and Gershwin beginning at 12:30 p.m.
The series will finish out with a guitar recital, featuring students of guitarist Music Professor David Newsam, on Sunday, March 3 at 4:00 p.m.
