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This course is part of a continuing series of performance-oriented courses designed to give Music Educators the opportunity to become more familiar with the various styles of music written for the orchestra. Each semester a different area of the repertoire will be examined and performed. In addition to rehearsals and performances there may be some scholarly written work. Attendance and participation is mandatory for this course.
| Spring 2006 Course Information |
MUS 646J. 3 graduate credits
Mondays, 7:00-10:00 p.m. Music Rehearsal Building
January 23 to April 24 |
| Depending on enrollment/instrumentation of Graduate Students, rehearsal times may fluctuate between 6 to 9 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. |
| C.W. Post Orchestra at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts |
| Monday, April 17 |
Dress Rehearsal |
| Monday, April 24 |
Concert at 8 p.m. (Sound check at 6:30 p.m.) |
AREA OF STUDY FOR SPRING 2006: ORCHESTRAL PERSPECTIVES – FROM J.S. BACH TO 2006
The semester’s rehearsals and concerts will focus on the perspectives of music from J.S. Bach to the present day, including a celebration of Mozart’s 250th anniversary. An Educational Residency with the New York Philharmonic in April and Orchestral Master Classes with members of the C.W. Post Music Faculty will highlight the spring semester. Repertoire includes the music of J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Dvorak and the premiere of the new orchestration of Riverdance arranged by Carl Strommen.
Dr. Susan Deaver has been the Music Director and Conductor of the C. W. Post Orchestra since l981. Dr. Deaver is well known on Long Island as a frequent clinician and guest conductor, and is experienced in working with undergraduate and graduate college musicians focusing on performance and music education. Mid-January she is conducting the Thueringen Philharmonie in Gotha, Germany as a selected conductor for an international conducting master class sponsored by the Philharmonisches Kammerorchester of Berlin. She was selected to participate in Tanglewood's Conducting Seminar Classes with Gustav Meier, the conducting seminars of the American Symphony Orchestral League, the Conductor's Guild and at Manhattan School of Music with Kurt Masur, Julius Rudel and Sixten Ehrling. As an orchestral fellowship student at Tanglewood in 1972, she worked with both Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. She was a guest conductor for both Suffolk and Nassau All-County Festivals and she guest conducted in Korea in May 2004. Dr. Deaver is currently on the music faculty at C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University, Stony Brook University and Manhattan School of Music's Precollege. B.M., M.M. and D.M.A. from Manhattan School of Music.
Prerequisites and Enrollment Qualifications:
Experienced instrumentalists may be accepted by audition or director's interview only. Participants cannot be currently matriculated in a degree program at Long Island University.
Credits and Fees:
Three graduate level credits can be earned by fulfilling the course requirements, which include rehearsing and performing with the C.W. Post Orchestra. Tuition for the course is computed at a special reduced rate of
thirty-three percent of the current rate per credit. Overall cost will include tuition and standard University fees, and may include a one time University application fee of $30.00.
TUITION: $747 PLUS UNIVERSITY AND STUDENT FEES
Registration is currently in progress
Semester begins Monday, January 23
Late registration from January 23 to February 3
For more information, contact Graduate Adviser John Meschi (516-299-2105, jmeschi@liu.edu) or Dr. Susan E. Deaver, C.W. Post Orchestra at (516-299-4093, sedeav@earthlink.net)
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