Explore baskets around the world, and then try your hand at making your own during this fun, free, family event.

2:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Join us for an afternoon celebrating the traditions of China through music and art with performances and gallery tours at the IU Art Museum.

Gallery Tours
2:00 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 2:40 p.m.
Gallery of the Art of Asia, and the Ancient Western World, second floor

20 minute tours will focus on five different artworks in the IU Art Museum’s permanent collection, each representing a different Chinese dynasty. Tours will be led by students in the Hutton Honors College and the Indiana University Art History Association.

Metaphor Through Music
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Thomas T. Solley Atrium, second floor

Students from the IU Jacobs School of Music performing on both Western and Chinese instruments (piano, flute, voice, erhu, and pipa) will come together to perform traditional Chinese compositions exploring the metaphor as a means of expression in Chinese culture. Whether in poetry, music, or fine art, artists often choose metaphor to convey their messages rather than explicit means. For example, the red bean in poetry indicates longing for a romantic interest. Similarly, in the fine arts picturesque landscapes with flowing rivers and majestic mountains can represent pride in a homeland.

In this program, music will be used to create metaphors for various topics in Chinese culture, focusing on four primary themes:

The jealous lover

Celebrations of ethnic tradtions

The contemplative scholar

Longing for home

David Effron, conductor
Piano soloist to be announced

Repertoire
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major

About the Conductor

Distinguished symphony and opera conductor, David Effron has, over a forty year career, conducted major symphony and opera companies throughout the world. As a member of the conducting staff of the New York City Opera from 1964 to 1982, he accumulated an operatic repertoire that exceeds 100 operas.

David Effron is Professor of Conducting at the Indiana University School of Muisc.. He previously held this same position at the Eastman School of Music for twenty years where he was Music Director of the Eastman Philharmonia. In these positions, Mr. Effron has trained hundreds of instrumentalists now in professional orchestras worldwide in addition to scores of professionally active conductors. Other positions he has held include, for eleven years, Music Director of the Heidelberg Summer Festival, Principal Conductor of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia for five years, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Central City Opera Festival, and, for nine years, Music Director of the Youngstown Symphony. He also was Music Director of the Brevard Music Center.

Maestro Effron has been a guest conductor for many leading North American ensembles, including the Aspen Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, Bach Aria Group, orchestras of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Denver, Buffalo, Rochester, New Mexico, and the National Ballet of Washington. As an opera conductor, he has appeared on the podium of the San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Tulsa Opera, Greater Buffalo Opera, and Opera Columbus.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he grew up in a gifted musical family. His father was concertmaster with the Cincinnati Symphony for twenty five years, and his mother was a pianist with that orchestra. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree from Indiana University. The recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation and Rockefeller Fund, he studied conducting in Cologne, Germany, after which, he returned to America to join the conducting staff of the New York City Opera.

Maestro Effron has made many recordings: most notably a 1987 recording on the Pantheon label featuring Benita Valente, Effron, and the Eastman Philharmonia, which won a German Critics Prize; an RCA recording of John Corigliano’s “Pied Piper Fantasy” with flutist James Galway was designated by Ovation Magazine as one of 3 top contemporary classical records in 1988; the 1987 Grammy-award winning recording of Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait”; and a disc of songs by Mahler and Berlioz with orchestra featuring the late mezzo-soprano, Jan DeGaetani.

In addition to his work as a conductor, he has continued his interest in piano performance, and, in the past accompanied such notable artists as George London, Sherrill Milnes, and Benita Valente.

He is married to artist Arlene Effron and is the father of two children.

David Effron, conductor
Pillho Bae, piano

Repertoire
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 100 (1944)

Meditation isn’t just for yogis high on mountain tops sitting in Lotus position; it’s for you and me. When have you meditated before? Have you watched a sunset or a sleeping baby, gone on a long walk or run, spent time coloring? Then you’ve meditated!

Join us in this one-hour introductory workshop to explore tools we can use to enhance and deepen the meditation experience and feel the power of community in practicing meditation.

This class is a benefit class for Pets Alive nonprofit spay/neuter clinic here in Bloomington, IN. Suggested donation: $10.00

Elise Blatchford, guest flute
Jacob Coleman, piano

Repertoire to be announced

About the Artists

Elise Blatchford (guest flute)

A flutist who embraces the independent, experimental, and the DIY, Elise Blatchford is a professor, a member of the City of Tomorrow wind quintet, and a frequent soloist and recitalist. Her solo playing has been hailed for its “superb command of color and nuance” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Ms. Blatchford is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Memphis Scheidt School of Music. With the contemporary music wind quintet the City of Tomorrow, she has won a gold medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and toured across the U.S.

Ms. Blatchford’s willingness to take risks has extended to multidisciplinary performance art at the Next Wave Festival at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), touring with the amplified cello rock band Portland Cello Project, and arranging and performing an entire album by singer-songwriter Mirah with her partner Leander Star.

Also at home in the traditional orchestra world, Ms. Blatchford has performed with the Oregon Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the YOA Orchestra of the Americas. With YOA, she toured extensively throughout South America, the Caribbean, and mainland China, made an appearance at Carnegie Hall with Valery Gergiev, and recorded with Philip Glass.

A dedicated and inventive pedagogue, Ms. Blatchford has given master classes at New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, Williams College, Longy School of Music, and Skidmore College, among many others. She completed degrees in flute performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory.

Elise Blatchford loves coffee, penguins, yoga, and weird independent radio stations.

Jacob Coleman (piano)

Jacob Coleman earned his bachelor’s in piano performance from the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music with Richard Zimdars, his master’s in collaborative piano from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance with David Riley, and his D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano at The University of Texas at Austin with Anne Epperson.

While at the University of Georgia, Coleman was a Presser Scholar and recipient of the UGA Liszt Award. As a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon, he was named Outstanding Graduate Collaborative Pianist for 2009. In 2012, he was a collaborative piano fellow at the Music Academy of the West, where he worked with Jonathan Feldman.

Coleman has participated in master classes with artists such as Gil Shaham, Ransom Wilson, Frank Cohen, Lynn Harrell, Angela Hewitt, Donald McInnes, and Warren Jones. He has served as staff at the Astoria Music Festival and faculty at the University of Georgia Summer Music Workshop.

He spends his summers in upstate New York as staff pianist at the esteemed Meadowmount School of Music.

Faculty/Guest Recital

Repertoire
Schulhoff: Sonata for flute and piano
Ran: East Wind for solo flute (1988)
Milhaud: Sonatine for flute and piano, Op. 76
R. Woolf: Everything is Green for flute, piano,
prerecorded soundtrack, and narrator (2003)
Copland: Duo for flute and piano (1971)

Elham- “Inspiration” in Arabic, is an Arabic-Jazz fusion band that started a couple of months ago. It seeks to find that special tone. The spontaneity, the passion, the creativity and emotions that exist in both Arabic music and Jazz are what this group is  trying to find through music. Elham consists of seven members, all Jazz majors at Jacobs School of Music, IU: Nai Barghouti, voice and flute Alex Berko, piano Vinèecia Buchanan, voice Kaitlyn Williams, voice Brian McCallister, voice Quinn Sternberg, bass Tommy Rorabeck, percussion

Edmund Cord, director

75 Dollar Bill: 75 Dollar Bill formed in New York City in 2012; the singular music of this instrumental duo draws various sources from around the world and across disciplines, everything from Mauritanian guitar to raw minimalism and blown-out urban blues, yet sounds unlike anything we’ve heard before. Wooden Bag is their debut vinyl release (after various cassette and digital EPs) and first for Other Music Recording Co., packaged in a limited-edition hand-stamped sleeve, download included. The band will be touring the US throughout the winter and spring. Che Chen has recorded and toured playing violin, guitars and other instruments, with a diverse set of artists including True Primes, Jozef van Wissem, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Che-Shizu and Robbie Lee. His guitar work explores a variety of influences, including Mauritanian guitar, Indian music, North Mississippi guitar boogie, Sun Ra, Led Zeppelin, the Velvets, Henry Flynt, and DNA. Rick Brown has been playing drums and percussion on the downtown New York scene since the early ‘80s, and has recorded and toured with numerous bands, including V-Effect, Run On, Timber, Fish & Roses, and Chris Stamey, and has collaborated live or in the studio with Tortoise, Matmos, Yo La Tengo, Charles Hayward, Fred Frith, Malcolm Mooney, Elliott Sharp, Jean Smith, Mark Cunningham and many others. In The New York Times, Ben Ratliff wrote of the duo’s live show: “Che Chen’s guitar: a cut-rate Japanese model sketching looped figures inside old Arabic modes, pushing jagged sound through a small amplifier. But as Mr. Chen stood playing hypnotic guitar repetitions, moving with the stresses of the riffs, the drummer Rick Brown sat on a square wooden box, open in the back, and attacked it from above. Sometimes he used his heel to bounce on a kick-drum pedal, pointing backward toward the box; mostly he was striking the sides of the box with his hands and a homemade mallet, hard, finding different pitches in different places. He cued transitions in the music, building odd or compound rhythms, turning them around and blurring distinctions between downbeats and upbeats. On the surface, the rhythms were only secondary to the guitar lines; deeper down, they were enfolded. One couldn’t do without the other.” Tyler Damon & Darin Gray: “Tyler Damon and Darin Gray had their first earthly encounter in early 2012 and patiently began to develop a rapport over several live dates in the American Midwest, eventually culminating in their first recording session in Darin’s hometown of Edwardsville, IL in the Autumn of 2014. The result was “Oninbo,” a recording that has, perhaps unintentionally, evoked an abstract narrative of the ‘Implacable Man’ trope, conjuring feelings of foreboding doom, exhausting, cathartic intensity and eerie calm via electro-acoustic free-improvisation and an aggregate of disparate personal influences. This drums/percussion and electric bass/percussion duo is the latest of several such collaborations for Darin, having performed for many years as On Fillmore (with Glenn Kotche) and Chikamorachi (with Chris Corsano); However, Damon and Gray confidently stand apart in the present with a nod toward the future. Their second full-length release, “For Four,” is due out in mid-November, 2015.” Darin Gray is best known as Jim O’Rourke’s go-to bassist for nearly 20 years, as half of the duo On Fillmore (with Glenn Kotche of Wilco), and as the bassist for Tweedy, Grand Ulena, Dazzling Killmen, Yona-Kit (with K.K. Null, Thymme Jones & Jim O’Rourke), Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi, You Fantastic!, and Brise-Glace. As an improviser he has performed and recorded with among others: Loren Connors, Bill Horist, Rafael Toral, Jim Becker, Robert Beatty, Tim Barnes, Chris Corsano, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Joshua Abrams, Tyler Damon, Nels Cline, Michael Zerang, Raglani, Dave Rempis, Rafael Toral, Akira Sakata, Dave Stone, Jeb Bishop, Yamashita Yosuke, Tatsuya Yoshida, Michiyo Yagi, Ghost Ice, Alan Wilkinson, Jason Roebke, Tatsuya Nakatani, Axel Dorner, George Cartright, Kevin Drumm, Alan Licht, Rob Mazurek, Gene Coleman, Glenn Kotche, Jim Baker, Michael Colligan, Weasel Walter, Konono No.1, Brain Transplant, Steve Dalachinsky, Thollem Mcdonas, Eric Hall, Jim O’Rourke, Ikue Mori, Illusion of Safety, Mars Williams, Brian Labysz, Jason Soliday, Raw Thug, William Tyler, etc… As a session bassist he has played on recordings by & performed live with Will Oldham, Cheer-Accident, James Toth/Wooden Wand, Rope, Yoshimi P-We, Bobby Conn, Daneilson Family, Gastr Del Sol, Domenico Lancellotti (from the Brazilian band +2), Early Day Miners, Bunnygrunt, Jim O’Rourke, etc… He has toured extensively in the United States, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Russia, and Europe. Tyler Damon (b. 1987, Cincinnati, OH USA) is a Bloomington, Indiana based artist whose work aims to reveal obscured and untold narratives via drums/percussion & free improvisation. Operating primarily as a soloist, Tyler is also currently involved in duo exhibitions with guitarist Tashi Dorji (Bhutan/Asheville, NC) and bassist Darin Gray (St. Louis/Edwardsville, IL), as well as the recently formed Chicago free jazz outfit the Mars Williams Quartet. Often recognized for his contributions to the shapeshifting outfit Open Sex and punk outliers Lech, other collaborators have included Mars Williams, Ken Vandermark, Little Howlin’ Wolf, Nathan Warrick (as Canned Hamms Blues Band), Chris Trull (Grand Ulena, Yowie), Kent Kessler, Peter Maunu, Brian Sandstrom, Steve Marquette, Kevin Harris, Mark Hosler (Negativland), Keith Jost, Matt Shuff, Curt Oren, Matthew Schneider (Moon Bros), Muyassar Kurdi, Circuit des Yeux, Sir Deja Doog’s Love Coffin and Sitar Outreach Ministry, among others.”