The University of Windsor School of Music will continue with a 36-year-old Christmas tradition Sunday, December 2, when the Chamber Choir and the University Singers will present A Festival of Christmas at Assumption Church.
The students have been preparing for the choral celebration since September. It will start at 3 p.m. and will be conducted by Bradley Bloom and Richard Householder.
Music therapy major Kristin Ward hopes to work in geriatrics and paediatrics and dreams of expanding her profession to her native Barbados. Her placement at Windsor Regional Hospital, working with a 14-year-old patient with cerebral palsy, has set her on that path.
Ward is one of four senior music therapy students who will discuss the experiences they gained in their fall semester field placements during “Wintersong,” Thursday, November 29, at 7 p.m. in Katzman Lounge, Vanier Hall.
The presentations include:
The University Jazz Ensemble will add some seasonal flavour to a program of great standards during its end-of-semester concert on Friday, November 30, at Banwell Community Church.
Under the direction of Bob Fazecash, the ensemble will ring some Jingle Bells along with a selection of charts that includes Billie Holiday’s God Bless the Child and Herbie Hancock’s Chameleon, as well as You’re Nobody til Somebody Loves You.
Along with the big band of more than 20 musicians, the concert will feature a set by more intimate student combo.
Christine Palmer, a secretary in the Faculty of Engineering, won Thursday’s DailyNews quiz and two tickets to “Songs of the Sea and Beyond,” the University Wind Ensemble’s end-of-semester concert, on Friday, November 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Banwell Community Church.
Palmer’s name was drawn from all respondents who correctly identified G.F. Handel as the composer of the Hallelujah Chorus, F minor as a key in which J.S. Bach failed to compose a flute sonata, and the oboe’s reeds outnumbering the flute’s 2-0.
After releasing a debut EP, producing its first music video and playing several opening gigs for bigger Canadian acts, Windsor-based alternative rock band Pulp City Inn has had its busiest year yet.
Band members—lead singer Justin Zuccato, guitar player Darryl Festa, bass player Brandon Zuccato and drummer Brandon Lefrancois—have been struggling to juggle their academic and musical careers.
The School for Arts and Creative Innovation is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to the University Wind Ensemble’s concert “Songs of the Sea and Beyond,” Friday, November 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Banwell Community Church.
The University Wind Ensemble will take its listeners to sea Friday with the program of its concert “Songs of the Sea and Beyond.”
Director Ric Moor will lead the ensemble through such selections as “They Came Sailing” from Andre Jutras’ Suite Jacques-Cartier; “Sea Songs” by Ralph Vaughn Williams; the “Air” and “Finale” movements from G. F. Handel’s Water Music; and Percy A. Grainger’s composition “Molly on the Shore.”
Senate approved “the School for Arts and Creative Innovation” as the name of the merged music, film production, visual arts and urban ecology programs at its meeting November 9.
“The new name recognizes the leadership of the arts in the digital economy and the evolution of a new culture,” says Cecil Houston, acting director of the new school. “Our graduates are creating the visual and sonic codes and designs that support the innumerable technical creations of our times.”
David Phillips (BA 1967) is more than just a weatherman.
Senior climatologist for Environment Canada and spokesperson for its meteorological service, the best-selling author is the creator of the country’s most-popular calendar and has received two Public Service Merit Awards, honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo and Nipissing University and the Order of Canada.
 Leslie Andrew. |
