University of South Carolina School of Music announces the 2014 Cornelia Freeman Concert Series
August 4, 2014
COLUMBIA, SC – September 7 – October 5, 2014 ~
Spend your Sunday afternoons with the university’s renowned music faculty at the Cornelia Freeman Concert Series. This popular fall chamber music series has been raising scholarship money for worthy music students for more than two decades. All concerts are held in the USC School of Music Recital Hall (821 Assembly St., Columbia, SC 29201) Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m.
The five fall concerts of the 2014 series offer a diverse repertoire from classical to jazz. Works composed by university faculty members will be played along with works by such composers as Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Faure, Chabrier, Chopin and others.
Director of jazz studies at USC Bert Ligon’s works will be played on the Sept. 7 and 21 concerts. He has published original compositions and arrangements for big band, jazz orchestra and steel drum ensembles. Ligon composed extensively in the radio, TV and film industries, receiving numerous awards including national PBS awards and an EMMY nomination.
The music of Jesse Jones, a Guggenheim Fellow and assistant professor of composition and theory at USC, will be played on the Sept 7, 14 and 28 concerts. His work has been performed the world over in leading venues such as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, the American Academy in Rome (Italy), and the St. Matthäuskirche (Berlin) among others. Preeminent ensembles including the Juilliard String Quartet have commissioned and performed Jones’ works.
Single concerts: $12 adults; $10 seniors citizens, USC faculty and staff; $5 students.
Series tickets: $50 adults; $40 seniors citizens, USC faculty and staff.
Reserved seating is an additional $100 per series.
Tickets: call 803-576-5763 or purchase online at www.sc.edu/music/freeman.
See more information at www.sc.edu/music/freeman.
Sept. 7
Trio for Mandolin, Violin and Double Bass
Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones, mandolin
Rebecca Hunter, violin
Craig Butterfield, double bass
Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G Minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff
William Terwilliger, violin
Robert Jesselson, violoncello
Charles Fugo, piano
Jazz Sextet
Bert Ligon
William Terwilliger and Rebecca Hunter, violins
Daniel Sweaney, viola
Robert Jesselson, cello
Craig Butterfield, double bass
Bert Ligon, piano
Sextet for Piano and Winds
Francis Poulenc
Jennifer Parker Harley, flute
Rebecca Nagel, oboe
Joseph Eller, clarinet
Michael Harley, bassoon
J.D. Shaw, horn
Phillip Bush, piano
Sept. 14 Cornelia Freeman Concert
USC School of Music Recital Hall
Mallorca (Barcarola), Op. 202
Torre Bermeja (Serenata), Op. 92, No. 12
Isaac Albéniz
Christopher Berg, guitar
Three Pieces
Jesse Jones
Craig Butterfield, double bass
Jesse Jones, mandolin
Dolly Suite
Gabriel Faure
Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers, piano
Larghetto
Emmanuel Chabrier
J.D. Shaw, horn
David Cutler, piano
Los requiebros
Enrique Granados
Joseph Rackers, piano
Sept 21 Cornelia Freeman Concert
USC School of Music Recital Hall
Duet for Double Bass and Piano
Bert Ligon
Craig Butterfield, double bass
Bert Ligon, piano
The Lake at Evening (from To be sung upon the water)
Dominick Argento
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Franz Schubert
The Lake at Night (from To be sung upon the water)
Dominick Argento
Tina Stallard, soprano
Joseph Eller, clarinet
Lynn Kompass, piano
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Felix Mendelssohn
William Terwilliger and Rebecca Hunter, violins
Daniel Sweaney, viola
Robert Jesselson, cello
Sept. 28 Cornelia Freeman Concert
USC School of Music Recital Hall
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60
Frederic Chopin
Charles Fugo, piano
In dulcet tones
Jesse Jones
Rebecca Hunter, violin
Lynn Kompass, piano
Two Songs from Schwanengesang, D. 957
Franz Schubert
Aria from Otello
Giuseppe Verdi
Donald Gray, baritone
Sharon Rattray, piano
Sonata for viola and piano, op. 120 No. 2
Johannes Brahms
Daniel Sweaney, viola
Phillip Bush, piano
Oct. 5 Cornelia Freeman Concert
USC School of Music Recital Hall
Recitatives and Arias from The Creation
Franz Joseph Haydn
Richard Conant, baritone
Charles Fugo, piano
Varietals
Andrew Skaggs
Brad Edwards, trombone
Joseph Rackers, piano
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Johannes Brahms
William Terwilliger and Rebecca Hunter, violins
Daniel Sweany, viola
Robert Jesselson, cello
Marina Lomazov, piano
