Music Department

Men's Glee Club, 1941-1942 (left to right): At the piano: Gil Brown and Director H. P. Davidson. First row: Ray Rabjohn, Delbert Smith, Alex Spanos, Charles Morris, Don Woods, Bob Winans, Jack Kleck, Gail Allen, Dick Wasson, Bill Struckmeyer, Kenneth Taylor, Danny Spanos, John Dutton, Walter Dougherty, Raymond Schwab. Second row: Ben Barr, Leroy Kawahara, Bryant Ehrenborg, Ted Wardell, John Nicolaides, Dave Risling, Ralph Carlsen, Morris Markee, Ted Hollinger, Bob Winterbourne, Ray Raybourn, Chester McCorkle, Fred Kobayashi, Loren McNicholl and Alvin Quist.

Poster reads: 'A concert celebrating electro-acoustic diversity and compositional risk.'

The poster reads: 'The Cal Poly Music Department, College of Liberal Arts, and IRA Program present a concert celebrating electroacoustic diversity and compositional risk.'

Cal Poly Spirit Song with words by Miss [Margaret] Chase and music by D. W. Schlosser created circa 1916-1919. Note: "Compliments of D. W. Schlosser."

The poster reads: 'RSVP VI: a concert celebrating electroacoustic diversity and compositional risk. Sponsored by the Cal Poly Music Department, College of Liberal Arts. Wednesday May 9, 2001, 8:00pm, Performing Arts Center, Pavilion, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.'

Poster reads: 'Concert celebrating electro-acoustic diversity and compositional risk. RSVP X: Anamnesis. an-am-ne-sis: a recollection; recalling to memory. Showing May 31, June 2, Cal Poly Performing Arts Center. Tickets $10 each at the PAC Ticket Booth. www.pacslo.org, 1.888.233.ARTS. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the Music Department of Cal Poly.'

Poster reads: 'A concert celebrating electro-acoustic diversity and compositional risk.'

Concert flyer for 'Poems of E.E. Cummings' Lecture-Recital Pictured left-to-right: Katherine Arthur, soprano; Kenneth Habib, composer; Susan Azaret Davies, piano Cal Poly to Present Oct. 18 Lecture and Recital Featuring 'Poems of E.E. Cummings' SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Cal Poly Music Department faculty members will present a lecture and recital titled "Poems of E.E. Cummings" at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, in Room 218 of the Davidson Music Center on campus. Katherine Arthur, soprano, and Susan Azaret Davies, piano, will perform songs composed by Cal Poly faculty member Kenneth S. Habib. Habib's "Poems of E.E. Cummings" is a cycle of eight poems selected from across the career of Cummings and arranged in four pairs. Before the recital, Habib will discuss the compositional design of the song cycle, and Arthur and Davies will give performance demonstrations, followed by the premiere of the entire cycle. Arthur, who teaches voice at Cal Poly, has appeared as a soloist with the Southwest Chamber Music Ensemble, Santa Barbara Oratorio Society and Pacific Repertory Opera. As a guest artist in Europe, she recorded works for the Austrian Radio. Davies has performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, Cabrillo Festival, Long Beach Bach Festival and San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. She has also performed in concerts with the Gachinger Kantorei of Stuttgart, Germany, and the New York Philharmonic. She teaches piano and accompanies at Cal Poly and for the Cuesta Master Chorale. Admission at the door will be $5 for the public and $2 for seniors and students. The recital is sponsored by the Cal Poly Music Department and College of Liberal Arts. For more information, call 756-2406.;

Concert flyer for "Great Poets in Song: 1900 and Beyond" Jacalyn Kreitzer, mezzo-soprano (pictured) Susan Azaret Davies, piano Featuring Nancy Nagano, cello and Adrienne Stallings, mezzo-soprano Works of Frances Poulenc, Charles Loeffler, Kurt Weill, Jake Heggie, Franz Lehar and Leonard Bernstein, with texts by Bertolt Brecht, Paul Verlaine, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Premiere of "Utterances," a piece composed by Music Department graduate Alex Kato-Willis. September 27, 2008 Saturday at 8 p.m. Spanos Theatre, Cal Poly Tickets: $6 students/seniors, $10 gen Performing Arts Ticket Office: 756-2787 Sponsored by the Cal Poly Music Dept. & College of Liberal Arts. To benefit the vocal scholarship fund.;

Flyer for the Cal Poly Choirs Debut Concert: "American Idols" Photo of Cal Poly a cappella ensemble Take It SLO. Photos of represented composers: Randall Thompson, Stephen Foster, and Aaron Copland, and author Edgar Allan Poe October 25, 2008 SAN LUIS OBISPO -- The Cal Poly Choirs will perform their annual Debut Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Center's Cohan Center on campus. Titled "American Idols," the program will feature music by such outstanding American composers as William Billings, Aaron Copland, Randall Thompson and Charles Ives. Selections from America's folk song, Southern harmony, and African American spiritual traditions will also be featured, as well as the words of famous poets such as Edgar Allan Poe. The evening will conclude with the combined choirs performing "America the Beautiful" with Paul Woodring accompanying on the Forbes Pipe Organ. Cal Poly Music Professor Thomas Davies will conduct the 47-member PolyPhonics and the 75-members of The University Singers. Pianists Susan Azaret Davies and Paul Woodring will accompany the choirs. In addition, the Cal Poly Early Music Ensemble and the a cappella ensemble Take It SLO will perform.;

Concert flyer for Bandfest 2008: "Mi Alma Latina" Wind Ensemble and Mustang Marching Band pictured Annual Bandfest Concert to Feature the Sounds, Rhythms of Latin Music Nov. 15 SAN LUIS OBISPO -- More than two hundred collegiate musicians will bring the fascinating rhythms of Spain, Cuba and Central and South America to Cal Poly at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Center's Christopher Cohan Center. The annual Bandfest concert features the Cal Poly Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and the Pride of the Pacific Mustang Marching Band in an evening of musical pageantry titled "Mi Alma Latina" ("My Latin Soul"). The combined forces of the Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble will perform the West Coast premiere of Robert W. Smith's Symphony No. 3, "Don Quixote," a major work for large wind band based the novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The composer is planning to be present for the premiere. Other highlights will include Alberto Ginastera's "Danza Finale," Alfred Reed's "El Camino Real," Donald Grantham's "Baron Cimetére's Mambo," Stephen Melillo's "Cuba," John Mackey's "Red Line Tango" and John Texidor's "Amparita Roca." The 120-member Mustang Marching Band, conducted by head drum major Justin Paulson and assistant drum major Jeffrey Brown, will present a stage version of some of its half-time shows, including excerpts from the band's Beatles show, Latin show, dance show and Halloween show. Cal Poly Director of Bands William Johnson and Associate Director of Bands Christopher Woodruff will conduct the Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. Bandfest is sponsored by Cal Poly's Music Department, College of Liberal Arts, and Instructionally Related Activities program. Tickets are $8 to $19 and are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787). Discounts are given to patrons who buy tickets to four or more Music Department events for 2008-2009 For more information, call the Music Department at 756-2406.;

Flyer for the University Jazz Bands' Fall Jazz Concert. Long horizontal photo of members University Jazz Band One. News Release for the concert: Jazz Up the Season With Cal Poly's Annual Fall Jazz Concert Dec. 5 SAN LUIS OBISPO – A young, fresh approach to one of America's great art forms – jazz – will be presented by the Cal Poly jazz ensembles at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly. The ensembles, two big bands and a combo, will show how jazz is being reinvigorated by the next generation, according to Paul Rinzler, director of jazz studies. Cal Poly student-musicians will perform a jazz arrangement of Van Morrison's "Moondance," a big band funk piece titled "Kickin' and Screamin'," as well as additional contemporary and traditional jazz standards, including Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." Tickets for the concert are $10 for the public, $8 for senior citizens and Jazz Federation members, and $6 for students. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787). Patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket office will receive a 10 percent discount; a 15 percent discount is given to those who buy tickets to five or more events. The concert is sponsored by Cal Poly's Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program. For more information, call the Music Department at 756-2406.;

Concert flyer for the Cal Poly Choirs "A Christmas Celebration" concert. Red floral background with holiday decorations: bells with "joy" and "peace" on them. Cal Poly Choirs' Dec. 6 'Christmas Celebration' to Bring Holiday Cheer to Central Coast SAN LUIS OBISPO – The holiday season is coming a little early to the Central Coast, by way of the Cal Poly Choirs' annual "A Christmas Celebration," set for 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, in Harman Hall of the Christopher Cohan Center. The University Singers, PolyPhonics and The Early Music Ensemble, conducted by Thomas Davies, will be joined by the Cal Poly Brass Ensemble, conducted by Christopher Woodruff. In addition the Cal Poly Barbershop Quartets and the a cappella ensemble Take It SLO will also perform. A variety of works from the 16th century to the present will be presented. The works include music by 16th-century composers Peter Philips and Michael Praetorius, 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, 20th-century composers Pavel Chesnokov, Randall Thompson, and Vaclav Nelhybel, and 21st-century composers Steven Stametz and Stephen Hatfield. Once again, PolyPhonics will be present a world premiere by Cal Poly composer Meredith Brammeier, titled "A Christmas Lullaby." This marks the seventh consecutive year that Brammeier has written a work for the Cal Poly Choirs' "A Christmas Celebration." The audience will have an opportunity to join in the holiday tradition of caroling. Tickets are $10 students, $16 and $19 seniors, $17 and $20 general and are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787). Patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket office will receive a 10 percent discount; a 15 percent discount is given to those who buy tickets to five or more events. The holiday concert is sponsored by Cal Poly's Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program. For more information, call the Music Department at 756-2406.;

Concert flyer for W. Terrence Spiller piano recital Spiller pictured seated at piano Pianist W. Terrence Spiller to Give Benefit Concert at Cal Poly Jan. 9 SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Music Department Chair and pianist W. Terrence Spiller will give a benefit recital of works by Mozart, Ravel, Bartok and Liszt at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, in the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly. The first half of Spiller's program will feature works by Mozart, opening with the Sonata in F Major, followed by the Fantasy in D minor, and concluding with the Sonata in D Major. The second half will open with Ravel's "Menuet Antique," followed by Bartok's "15 Hungarian Peasant Songs," and end with Liszt's "Tarantella" from his "Venezia e Napoli." Tickets to the recital are $6 for students and senior citizens and $10 for the public. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Proceeds from the recital will benefit the Cal Poly Music Department Scholarship Fund. The recital is sponsored by the Music Department and College of Liberal Arts. For more information, call 756-2406.;