Thu 2/25 @ 7:30PM
Sun 2/28 @ 4:30PM
Oberlin Conservatory’s Oberlin Stage Left virtual series wraps up its month-long celebration of Black History Month with two programs this week, both featuring conservatory faculty members.
On Thursday February 25, a pre-recorded concert hosted by Associate Professor of Horn Jeff Scott features three of his own works, along with compositions by Duke Ellington and Ulysses Kay. Bassoon professor Drew Pattison and piano professor James Howsmon will perform Kay’s Sonata for Bassoon and Piano; Duke Ellington’s “Cotton Club Stomp” with features Oberlin’s ensemble-in-residence the Verona Quarter, and Scott’s Sacred Women will be played by the Oberlin Orchestra directed by Raphael Jiménez. Scott and Clarinetist/keyboardist Mark Dover will perform Abel Meeropol’s “Strange Fruit,” the mournful tune about lynching made famous by Billie Holiday, and Scott will play his own “Elegy for Innocence,” a solo piece.
On Sunday February 28, the final concert of the series airs. That program includes violin professor Francesca dePasquale and Howsmon performing William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano; faculty cellist Darrett Adkins offering excerpts of solo works by Jeffrey Mumford; and violinist David Bowlin and faculty harpsichordist Mark Edwards offering Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in G Minor by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Go here to listen to the free concerts.
oberlin.edu/conservatory/stage-left