REMINDER
Friday, November 9
8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7
Pacific Standard Time & Jazz And Tonic

Christine Guter and Cynthia Dicken, directors.

Jazz & Tonic will sing Bill Holman’s The Opener, Thad Jones’ A Child is Born, James Taylors’s Shed a Little Light and others.

Pacific Standard Time will perform a Song for Bilbao—Pat Metheny, I Don’t Know Enough About You—Peggy Lee, London by Night—Carol Coats, Surrey with the Fringe on Top—Rodgers & Hammerstein, The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing—Irving Berlin and more.

REMINDER
Saturday, November 10
4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7
Jazz Lab Band
& Corner Pocket

Nathan King and Jonny Arenas, directors.

The first Jazz Lab Band and Corner Pocket performance of the 2018-2019 academic season will feature a challenging program in a variety of styles and historic settings. The JLB will present charts from Count Basie, Thad Jones, Bob Mintzer, John Fedchock, Gordon Goodwin and Bob Florence. You’ll be treated to the versatility of our jazz ensembles when you hear contemporary jazz orchestra pieces juxtaposed with classic big band repertoire.

REMINDER
Sunday, November 11
4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7
Concert Jazz Orchestra & Studio Jazz Band

Jeff Jarvis, director.

The second campus performance of the 2018-2019 academic season will feature the new editions of the Concert Jazz Orchestra and Studio Jazz Band presenting challenging programs in a variety of styles and historic settings. The SJB will present charts from Don Schamber, Gil Evans, and Maria Schneider, and the CJO will perform music by John LaBarbera, Rob McConnell, Dirk Fischer and Bob Florence.

You’ll be treated to the versatility of our jazz ensembles when you hear contemporary jazz orchestra pieces juxtaposed with classic big band repertoire. These two ensembles are full of fine soloists, so you are in for a Sunday afternoon of good jazz when we welcome you to an exciting "Jazz at the Beach" performance here at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music.

REMINDER
Sunday, November 11
8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/FREE
BCCM Percussion Ensembles

Ted Atkatz, director.

The BCCM Percussion Ensemble program will include two pieces by Steve Reich, Music for Pieces of Wood and Nagoya Marimbas. The University Percussion Group will also perform Pillar IV by Andy Akiho.

Tuesday, November 13
8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7
Collegium Musicum

David Garrett, director.

Works from the 16th-18th centuries by Henry Purcell, Domenico Gabrielli, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Jean-Marie Leclaire, Georg Phillip Telemann, and Willian Byrd will be performed by members of the Collegium with director, David Garrett on harpsichord.

Composition Day
Wednesday, November 14, 3:15pm—Midnight

Composition Day offers prospective freshmen, junior-transfer, and master's students the opportunity to meet with the Composition faculty to answer questions, tour the conservatory’s facilities, and to join enrolled students for informal discussion, as well as to attend one of our weekly Composition Colloquium meetings. This particular colloquium will feature a few of our current composition students, working at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, sharing recent works in an open forum where all in attendance can offer constructive criticism. Interested parties can also chat with current students in the program over pizza, and then take in a free concert in the Daniel Recital Hall of recent works written by members of the composition area. Immediately after this concert, the Conservatory is also hosting 3-Minute Wonders with C3LA Chorus.

More information and schedule of events for Composition Day here.

Wednesday, November 14
8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets FREE
Composers' Guild Presents: 3-minute Wonders with
C3LA Chorus

Alan Shockley, director.

The evening’s program includes is a series of miniature new works, each one roughly three minutes long and written specifically for C3LA, the Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles, by members of the CSULB Composers’ Guild.

C3LA is a Los Angeles-based choral collective performing works written exclusively within the last 25 years. C3LA is a unique ensemble dedicated to performing outstanding new choral music; providing a venue for multi-talented singer-composers and singer-conductors to collaborate.

Friday, November 16
6:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7
New Music Ensemble

Alan Shockley, director.

The New Music Ensemble will perform two works by Pauline Oliveros: Pebble Music and From Unknown Silences. Also programmed are glint in river’s bed—Alan Shockley, Pale As Centuries—Sarah Kirkland Snider and, Apartment House Exercise—Christian Wolff.

Friday, November 16
Saturday, November 17
8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Tickets $25/20 Friday / Saturday
FUSION: Orchestra and Dance

Johannes Müller Stosch, director.

FUSION will feature Gloria by internationally renowned choreographer Mark Morris, described by the Washington Post as, "a swell of music and euphoria." Danced to Vivaldi’s Gloria in D, Morris’ brilliant movement invention transports the viewer into a world of the intangible. Gloria will be performed by dance majors from the Department of Dance, the Bob Cole Conservatory Symphony, conducted by Johannes Müller Stosch, and the University Choir led by Jonathan Talberg.

Faculty choreographers Rebecca Bryant, Rebecca Lemme, Julio Medina and Andrew Vaca complete an exciting evening with three more campus premieres: A multi-media contemporary dance work to Aeriality by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir; a fresh view of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor incorporating breaking and crumping; and an interpretation of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor that delights in a surprising immersion of dancers and a musical soloist. Newly designed costumes, sets and lighting complement an evening of breathtaking movement and live music—don’t miss it!

More information and schedule of events for FUSION here.

Saturday, November 17
2:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7
Opera Scenes

Brian Farrell, director.

Opera Scenes will feature Emily Booth as Olympia from Tales of Hoffman (who will be singing a high Ab above high C!) and a scene from "country" opera Susannah among others.

Sunday, November 18
4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7
Piano Showcase

Shun-Lin Chou, director.

Featuring outstanding CSULB pianists in solo performances of mostly classics by the great composers from eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Program includes works by Chopin, Liszt, Bartok and Kavalevsky.