A video compilation of this year’s School of Music performances shows the wide range of instruments and genres explored by its students and faculty.
Produced by operations manager Trevor Pittman, the video is featured in the 2012 edition of the e-Music News & Notes newsletter.
Watch the video now:
Sylvia Verhaegen-Tingle, a computing consultant in Information Technology Services, laboratory safety coordinator in the Chemical Control Centre, won yesterday’s DailyNews contest and two tickets to the faculty concert “Chamber Ensembles and Electronics,” Saturday, February 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel.
The Windsor Canadian Music Festival will bring music students downtown for the Phog Phunk Phest, a jam session at Phog Lounge on Wednesday, February 8 at 10 p.m.
The Take 4 series will take the form of a composers’ roundtable featuring David Eagle, Keith Hamel, James Harley, Christien Ledroit and Brent Lee discussing their work and inspiration Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Music Building.
Music student Melanie Wright – a clarinettist herself – won Thursday’s DailyNews trivia quiz and the prize of two tickets to the Faculty Trio Recital, Sunday in Assumption University Chapel.
A recital by a trio of faculty members in the School of Music will feature the world premiere of a sonata that draws on the composer’s time in Canada’s cottage country.
Clarinetist Trevor Pittman, pianist Gregory Butler and violinist Lillian Scheirich will perform in recital Sunday, November 13, at 2:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel. The program includes sonatas by Johannes Brahms and César Franck and the Trio for violin, clarinet and piano by Aram Khachaturian, as well as a new work by former UWindsor instructor Robert Rival.
Mike Glendenning and his colleagues were prospecting for gold in the far reaches of northern Manitoba this summer, but may have inadvertently picked up some new knowledge in the field of entomology.
“There’s mosquitoes there, blackflies, horseflies, moose flies and new breeds of flies I’ve never even heard of,” the geology major and graduate student in Earth and Environmental Sciences said of the bugs he encountered during one of several two-week work rotations he’s done in the remote mining town of Lynn Lake.
