• Department of Music announces spring performances



• Large ensemble concerts, faculty recitals and festivals highlight the 2005 spring semester Iowa State University Department of Music activities.
  
  Tickets for Department of Music activities in Stephens Auditorium are available at the Iowa State Center Ticket office, all TicketMaster locations or by calling 515-233-1888. All events are free unless noted.
  
  Highlights of Iowa State's Department of Music fall schedule include:
  
  January
  14-15 - Madrigal Dinners, Great Hall, Memorial Union, 5:30 p.m. The 40th annual Madrigal Dinners feature a candlelit 17th century banquet hall filled with the ambiance of a festive Renaissance English court. The banquet will be "attended" by graceful dancers, playful jesters, strolling musicians, frolicking fools and gallivanting wenches. Tickets - $30.
  
  23 - Faculty Chamber Music, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 3 p.m. The first of two Department of Music faculty recitals during the semester, this performance will feature the brass and voice faculty.
  
  28-29 - Florence Symposium, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. The second annual Florence Symposium will be highlighted by a lecture from Niccolo Capponi, an authority on military history of Europe on Jan. 28. He will speak on "Political, Military and Cultural Implications of the Sack of Rome, 1527." The next evening, Musica Antiqua, The Music Men, and present and former students of the Iowa State Florence study abroad program will present a concert of music related to the Sack of Rome.
  
  30 - Iowa State Singers Bon Voyage Concert, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 3 p.m. Prior to performing at the American Choral Directors Association national convention in Los Angeles, the vocal ensemble will present a special concert.
  
  February
  2 - Central College Flying Pans, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. The steel percussion band from Central College in Pella will present a free concert.
  
  5 - Ames Piano Quartet, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Iowa's resident chamber ensemble's latest concert will include the Ames premiere of a flashy new piano quartet by Paul Schoenfield entitled "Carolina Reveille," loosely based on the popular song, "Nothing' could be Fina,' than to be in Carolina in the Morning." The program will also include works by Mozart and Russian romantic composer Paul Juon.
  
  11-12 - Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall. This year's festival will highlight electroacoustic music for a surround sound environment. Guest composer/lecturer Scott Wyatt of the University of Illinois, who has specialized in electroacoustic composition for multi-channel sound systems, will present a lecture (Feb. 11 at 4:10 p.m.) and concert (Feb. 12 at 3 p.m.) during his stay on campus.
  
  18 - ISU Symphony Orchestra, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Iowa State faculty member Jonathan Sturm (violin) will perform with the ISU Symphony Orchestra on Mozart's "Fifth Violin Concerto."
  
  March
  Scholarship Musicales, 7:30 p.m. The annual fundraising event for the Department of Music will include five separate performances in Ames homes. Seating is limited with the $30 tickets on sale at the Department of Music. The Musicales include "Jazzology: Jazz History Through Sound," March 1; "The Ames Piano Quartet: CD Classics," March 8; Simon Estes, March 28; Basically Baroque, March 29; and "An Evening of Enchanting Flute Trios," March 31.
  
  5 - May Tsao-Lim and Jin-Young Park, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 3 p.m. Iowa State pianist May Tsao-Lim and Simpson College's Jin-Young Park will present a piano recital featuring works by all-French composers - Saint-Saens, Poulenc, Debussy, and Ravel.
  
  22 & 24 - ISU Wind Ensemble with Leigh Howard Stevens, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Leigh Howard Stevens has been hailed as the world's greatest classical marimbist. Stevens will be in on campus in late March as the Fisher Artist-in-Residence. He will give a recital of his works on March 22 and will then be featured with the ISU Wind Ensemble two days later as the instrumental group focuses on "percussive" compositions including "Desi," "Kitten on the Keys," "The Big Cage," and "Rosewood Dreaming."
  
  April
  1 - Midwest Children's Choir Festival, Stephens Auditorium, 7 p.m. The biannual festival will include the Milwaukee Children's Choir, the Northern Illinois Children's Choir and the Ames Children's Concert Choir. Top singers from throughout Iowa will join these choirs in a massed choir performance that will also feature international opera star Simon Estes. Admission will be charged.
  
  9 - Faculty Chamber Music Recital, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Piano faculty from the Department of Music will play solo pieces and works for one-piano four-hands, two-piano four-hands, and two-piano eight hands.
  
  22 - ISU Wind Ensemble, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Performing many of their selections included on their upcoming May tour of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, the ISU Wind Ensemble will be joined by Donald Simonson (voice) on Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus."
  
  24 - Masterworks Concert, Stephens Auditorium, 3 p.m. Franz Joseph Haydn's "The Creation" will be the featured piece during the Masterworks concert. Four Iowa State choirs will be joined by Simon Estes and an orchestra consisting of Iowa State faculty members. Admission will be charged.
  
  26 - ISU Symphony Orchestra, Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, 5:30 p.m. Pieces for chamber orchestra will be featured including Veni Creator Spiritus by Iowa State faculty composer Jeffrey Prater.
  

Leigh Howard Stevens - March 22 & 24

Florence Symposium with Niccolo Capponi - January 28-29

Ames Piano Quartet - February 5

Iowa State Singers - January 30