General information

39th Season: 1997-98

9 October 1997

Main Theatre, UC Davis. Dedication ceremony: UCD Davis Dramatic Art Building to Celeste Turner Wright Hall. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture. Jerome Rosen: Campus Doorways (text by Celeste Turner Wright; with the University Chorus). 
 

Sunday, 23 November 1997

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, op. 58
Charles Rosen, piano
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor
Freeborn Hall, 8:00 P.M.Admission $5/$2.50 (see note below)
Co-sponsored by Office of the Provost, The Department of German and Russian, and the Department of French and Italian
program & poster 
 
Charles Rosen, world renowned musicologist, language scholar, and pianist, is 1997 Regents’ Lecturer 
 

21-23 November and 4-7 December 1997

The Beggar’s Opera (University Theatre). Michael Malone, conducting.
 

Friday, 5 December 1997

A Holiday Concert with the University Chorus. Vivaldi: Gloria and Poulenc: Gloria. Jeffrey Thomas, conducting.
program & poster 
 

Tuesday, 27 January 1998

Veterans Memorial Theatre, Davis. Third Annual Davis Music Festival / Bodil Wennberg Memorial Concert. Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, movt. IV.
 

Saturday, 21 February 1998

James Stern, violin
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major (“Pastoral”), op. 68
Freeborn Hall, 8:00 P.M. Admission $5/$2.50
James Stern is professor of violin at the Conservatory of the University of the Pacific
program & poster
 

Friday, 6 March 1998

(Sacramento: Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament)

 

Saturday, 7 March 1998

(San Francisco: St. Mary’s Cathedral)

 

Sunday, 8 March 1998

(Davis: Freeborn Hall)
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem)
Robert Breault, tenor, University Chorus and Chamber Singers, Sacramento Choral Society, Davis Chorale
program & poster
 

Sunday, 31 May 1998

Ortiz: Maximiliano (first performance)
Christine Schadeberg, soprano
Mercedes Gómez, harp
Ortiz: ¿What About Maximiliano?
Tchaikovsky: “Letter Scene” from Eugene Onegin
Bizet: “Habanera” from Carmen
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73
Freeborn Hall, 8:00 P.M. Admission $5/$2.50
program & poster
 
Christine Schadeberg is 1998 Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Music 
Mercedes Gómez teaches harp at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música and the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City