Date: Jan 27, 2010

Department of Music Spring 2010 Concert Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, please call the Hofstra Box Office at (516) 463-6644, Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., for tickets and more information on the performances below. Please note off-campus locations for the concerts by the Hofstra Chamber Singers and the Hofstra Chorale and Chamber Singers.

January 29 to 31: Hofstra Opera Theater presents Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Isabel Milenski, artistic director; David Ramael, musical director. The opera will be performed in English and a pre-show lecture will take place one hour prior to each performance. Join the wonderful and hilarious cast as they descend into the wacky world of Johann Strauss, the waltz king of Vienna. This production will indulge your 21st century senses with famous waltz  tunes, masked balls and extra-marital intrigue.  Will Eisenstein get out of his prison sentence?  Who is that beautiful woman behind the mask?  Will the Bat get his revenge? Die Fledermaus will delight seasoned and new opera goers with Dionysian celebration and sweeping dance numbers. This opera will have you rolling with laughter and leaving the theater humming.
Show times are 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus.
Tickets: $15, $12 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

March 13 and 20, 2 p.m.: The Hofstra Shakespeare Festival Musicale, The Ideas of Mars, and a Companion Play, a One-Hour Julius Caesar, The Ides of March. The Festival Musicale will be performed by the Hofstra Collegium Musicum, directed by William E. Hettrick. The one-hour Julius Caesar, The Ides of March, is adapted by Hofstra Professor Maureen Connolly McFeeley.
Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus.
Tickets: $10 general admission; $8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Tickets on sale February 9. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

March 13 at 8 p.m. and March 14 at 3 p.m.: Hofstra Chamber Singers will be the guests on the Long Island Baroque Ensemble’s 40th Anniversary Tribute celebrating the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the absolute creative genius of the Baroque Era, featuring the cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4.
Off-campus locations: On March 13 the performance will take place at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Smithtown. On March 14 the concert will be at Christ Episcopal Church in Oyster Bay.
Tickets: Please call the Department of Music at (516) 463-5497 for more information.

March 14 at 3 p.m.: Hofstra String Quartet. The Hofstra String Quartet is one of Hofstra’s professional music ensembles. In this concert they will perform the Beethoven String Quartet in C-Minor, Opus 18 No. 4, and the Dvorak “American” String Quartet, Opus 96 in F-Major.
Location: 010 New Academic Building, South Campus.
Tickets: $15 general admission, $12 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Tickets on sale beginning February 23. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

April 11 at 3 p.m.: The American Chamber Ensemble (ACE) Spring Concert. Naomi Drucker and Blanche Abram, co-directors. ACE is one of Hofstra’s professional music ensembles. The program includes the Crusell Quartet Opus 2 for clarinet and strings; the Gary Schocker Sonata for piano and 2 clarinets, with pianist Marilyn Lehman and clarinetists Naomi Drucker and guest artist Stanley Drucker; and the romantic Brahms Quartet Opus 25 in G-Minor for piano and strings with Blanche Abram, piano; Eriko Sato, violin; Lois Martin, viola; and Chris Finckel, cello.
Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus.
Tickets: $15 general admission, $12 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Tickets on sale beginning March 23. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

April 18 at 7 p.m.: Hofstra Jazz Ensemble, David Lalama, director. An evening of traditional and contemporary music featuring student jazz compositions and arrangements for Big Band and Little Big Band.
Location: Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Avenue, South Campus.
Tickets: $10 general admission, $ 8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Tickets on sale beginning March 23. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

April 23 at 8 p.m.: Hofstra Chorale and Chamber Singers. David Fryling, director. Choral gems – an enticing and eclectic selection of vocal music presented in an exquisite acoustic.
Off-campus location: Cathedral of the Incarnation, Cathedral Avenue, Garden City, New York. 
Tickets: $10 general admission, $ 8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. For tickets and information, please call (516) 463-5497.

May 1 at 8 p.m.: Hofstra Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, Peter Loel Boonshaft, director. A program of traditional and contemporary works for wind band.
Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus.
Tickets: $10 general admission, $8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Tickets on sale beginning April 13. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

May 4 at 8 p.m.: Hofstra Chorus and Hofstra String Orchestra, Cindy Bell and David Ramael, directors.
Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus.
Tickets: $10 general admission, $8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. Tickets on sale beginning April 20. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

May 8 at 8 p.m.: Hofstra Symphony Orchestra, David Ramael, director. The Hofstra Symphony Orchestra celebrates America. Featured on the program are Meira Warshauer’s Like Streams in the Desert, Edward MacDowell’s Second Piano Concerto, and Howard Hanson’s Second Symphony.
Location: John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus.
Tickets: $10 general admission, $8 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. One free ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Tickets on sale beginning April 20. For tickets and information, please contact the John Cranford Adams Playhouse Box Office at (516) 463-6644.

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