MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS
This schedule is subject to change. Please contact the Music Department at 217-581-3010 or music@eiu.edu for information.
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BAND PERFORMANCES
Life In The Groove: The Influence Of Jazz - featuring the Eastern illinois Wind Symphony & Jazz Ensemble
Friday, September 30 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
October: featuring the Eastern illinois university Concert Band
Thursday, October 20 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
Call To Duty: A Veterans Day Tribute - featuring the Eastern illinois Wind Symphony & Special Guests
Thursday, November 10 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
A Holiday Collage Concert: featuring the Eastern illinois university Bands & Department of music Chamber Ensembles
Tuesday, December 6 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
The Art Of The Wind Band: featuring the Eastern illinois Wind Symphony & Professor of Clarinet magie Smith
Saturday, February 25 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
Wind Band Classics: featuring the Eastern Illinois University Concert Band & Guest middle School honor Band
Tuesday, March 6 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
A Night Of Chamber Music: featuring the Eastern illinois Wind Symphony & Department of music Chamber Ensembles
Friday, March 30 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
A Celebration Concert: featuring the Eastern illinois Wind Symphony & Concert Band
Friday, April 20 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
Eastern Symphonic Band Concert: featuring Eastern Students & faculty & Community members
Tuesday, April 24 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
JAZZ PERFORMANCES
Jazz Groups
Thursday, September 22 • 7:30 pm
Black Box, Free
Jazz Ensemble with the Wind Symphony: Life in the Groove
Friday, September 30 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
Jazz Combos
Thursday, October 27 • 7:30 pm
Black Box, Free
Jazz Lab Band
Thursday, November 17 • 7:30 pm
The Theatre, Free
Jazz Combos
Thursday, December 1 • 7:30 pm
The Theatre, Free
Jazz Ensemble
Friday, December 9 • 7:30 pm
The Theatre, $5
Jazz Festival featuring Conrad Herwig
Friday, February 10 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $10 Adults / $5 All Others
New York jazz trombonist Conrad Herwig has recorded 20 albums as a leader. His newest CD release is The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note; 2010). This is the follow-up project to The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter (Half Note; 2008), Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis (Half Note; 2004), and The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place; 1996), each nominated for A GRAMMY Award.
His non-Latin recording, Heart of Darkness, received 4 1/2 stars in DownBeat Magazine and he’s been voted #1 Jazz Trombonist (Talent Deserving Wider Recognition) in the 2002 DownBeat “Jazz Critic’s Poll.”
In constant demand as a sideman, Herwig has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Horace Silver Octet, Tom Harrell’s Septet and Big Band and the Joe Lovano Nonet, and performs and records with Eddie Palmieri’s “La Perfecta II” and Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet groups as well as with Paquito D’Rivera’s Havana-New York Connection and the Mingus Big Band. All told, Herwig has appeared on more than 200 albums in what is now a 30-plus-year career.
Jazz Combos
Thursday, February 23 • 7:30 pm
The Theatre, Free
Jazz Lab Band
Thursday, March 8 • 7:30 pm
The Theatre, Free
Jazz Combos
Thursday, April 19 • 7:30 pm
Black Box, Free
Jazz Ensemble
Thursday, April 26 • 7:30 pm
The Theatre, $5
PERCUSSION PERFORMANCES
Percussion Ensemble
Tuesday, November 15 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
Percussion Ensemble
Tuesday, April 3 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
Multi-Cultural Concent
Friday, April 27 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
The EIU Choral Ensembles and Percussion Ensemble will perform an evening
of multi-cultural music that spans the globe.
EASTERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORAL PERFORMANCES
Cathedrals, Castles & Colonies: featuring the EIU Choral Ensembles and Collegium Musicum (Early Music Ensembles)
Sunday, October 16 • 4 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
From the Gothic cathedrals and the majestic castles of Europe to the shores of the Americas, the EIU Choral Ensembles and Collegium Musicum will perform a wide variety of works by English, French, German, Italian and American composers.
Fright Night: Featuring The Eastern Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, October 23 • 6 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
The evening will include Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg, a Halloween costume contest, videos, candy and lots of frightening fun!
Triumph And Tragedy: featuring the Eastern Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, November 13 • 4 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
- Symphony no. 7 in D minor, Op 70, B. 141 by Antonín Dvorák
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op 37 by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Dr. Susan Teicher, piano
Holiday Concert: featuring the Eastern Symphony Orchestra & EIU Choral Ensembles
Sunday, December 4 • 4 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
- Many Moods of Christmas
- Improvisations on Christmas Carols by Bryan Kelly
Lessons And Carols: featuring the Eastern Illinois University Concert Choir & Collegium Musicum
Thursday, December 8 • 7:30 pm
Wesley United Methodist Church, Free
A historical rendition of the famous King’s College Service of Lessons and Carols.
Songs of Love: featuring the EIU Choral Ensembles and Collegium Musicum (Early Music Ensembles)
Sunday, February 12 • 4 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
Romance will be in the air when Eastern’s Choral Ensembles present a “tour de force” celebrating the majesty of love.
Stagestruck: featuring the Eastern Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, February 19 • 4 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
- An American in Paris by George Gershwin
- Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein
- Special guest appearance: Four Voices, Jazz Vocal Quartet
Ovations: featuring the Eastern Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, April 1 • 4 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
- Finlandia, Opus 26 by Jean Sibelius
- Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 56 featuring:
- Dr. Anna Cromwell, violin
- Dr. Ka-Wai Yu, cello
- Kent Conrad, piano
A Musical Journey Through Time: featuring the Eastern Symphony Orchestra and EIU Choral Ensembles
Sunday, April 22 • 4 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $12 General/$10 EIU Employees & Seniors (62+)/$5 Students
A historical tour of orchestral and choral masterpieces from early Baroque to contemporary works with special appearances of the EIU Mixed Chorus, Oratorio Society and Concert Choir.
Multi-Cultural Concert
Friday, April 27 • 7:30 pm
Dvorak Concert Hall, $5
The EIU Choral Ensembles and Percussion Ensemble will perform an evening of multi-cultural music that spans the globe.
OTHER PERFORMANCES
Faculty Recital
Friday, September 23 • 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, Free
- Dr. Andrew Cheetham, trumpet
- Dr. Jemmie Robertson, trombone
EIU Music Theatre/Opera Ensemble
October 21-22 • 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, $5
Faculty Recital: An Evening Of American Songs
Saturday, October 29 • 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, Free
- Dr. Marilyn Coles, voice
- Paul Johnston, piano