A World of Music
Spring 2019 Concert Schedule
Reflections: Art and Music
A collaboration between the Art and Music departments, this event will open with a faculty art exhibit in the new Academic Arts Center in Lowell and conclude with a concert in the Recital Hall. The exhibit will feature sculpture, painting, ceramics, stained glass, photography, collage and works on paper by Angela Alés, Jan Arabas, Bill Bradbury, Richard Breyer, Jeanne Cronin, Joe Eiler, Meredith Fife-Day, Mary Hart, George Herman, Tamara Krendel, Pai Lin, Yary Livan, Roneld Lores, Jill McCaffrey, Margaret Rack, Samnang Riebe and Carolyn Stock. The concert will include music which reflects the cultures, images and emotions of the artwork. MCC faculty members Orlando Cela, flute, Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, piano and Anna Ward, soprano will be joined by David Clark, composer/double bass and Steve Hunt, piano. Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen, Chinary Ung, Jaime León, Jacques Ibert, David Clark and Beau Kenyon will be featured.
Friday, March 15
6:30 p.m. • Art Exhibit Opening • Academic Arts Center
8:00 p.m. • Concert • AAC Recital Hall
Lowell Campus
Holes in the Floor Cello Quartet
This Boston-based ensemble is comprised of cellists Jonathan Butler, Eunghee Cho,
Yejin Hong, and Joy Yanai, each of whom have won major prizes in international string
competitions. Holes in the Floor conveys the expressive potential of classical music through exciting
and engaging performances and presentations of beloved classics, as well as new commissions
and premieres. They will perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ian Wiese, Jeremy Crosmer, Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven.
8:00 p.m. • Friday, April 5 • MCC Concert Hall • Bedford Campus
Chamber Music for Oboe, Flute, Cello and Piano
John Ferrillo, Principal Oboe of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Ostling,
Associate Principal Flute of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, William Rounds, cello
and Carmen Rodriguez-Peralta, piano will perform music for various combinations of
these instruments. London Trio in G Major for Flute, Oboe and Cello by Franz Joseph
Haydn, Duo for Flute and Piano by Aaron Copland, Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus from Quartet from the End of Time for Cello and Piano by Olivier Messiaen, Sonatine for Oboe and Piano by Maurice Ravel and Trois Aquarelles for Flute, Cello and Piano by Philippe Gaubert will be performed.
8:00 p.m. • Friday, April 26 • MCC Concert Hall • Bedford Campus
3:00 p.m. • Sunday, April 28 • Academic Arts Center, Recital Hall • Lowell Campus
MCC Student Recital
Student Instrumentalists & Singers
12:30 p.m. • Monday, May 6 • MCC Concert Hall • Bedford Campus
Music for Classical Guitars and Violin
MCC faculty member Raley Beggs, guitar, will join guitarist AdamLevin and violinist William Knuth (as Duo Sonidos) to perform an evening of colorful music from Spain, Latin America and the United States. Works by Leo Brouwer, Eduardo Morales-Caso, Lucas Foss, Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel Ponce and George Gershwin will be featured.
8:00 p.m. • Friday, May 10 • MCC Concert Hall • Bedford Campus
All concerts are free and open to the public
For more information, contact Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, Director of A World of Music,
at 781-280-3923 or peraltac@middlesex.mass.edu
For directions:
MCC Concert Hall in Bedford
https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/transportation/directions/bdirect.aspx
Academic Arts Center in Lowell
https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/academicartscenter/directions.aspx
For clips of past concerts, visit http://www.youtube.com/user/MCCmusicOnline2