Works of Faculty Composers Showcased in May 12 Concert by Charity Johnson '99
			Music and multimedia compositions by members of the Conservatory faculty will be featured in concert Saturday, May 12 at 8 p.m. in Warner Concert Hall. Conservatory students will perform works by composition faculty members Randolph Coleman, Lewis Nielson, Jeffrey Mumford, and Anna Rubin; Professor of African-American Music Wendell Logan; and TIMARA faculty members Tom Lopez and Gary Lee Nelson. The concert is free and open to the public. "It's very wonderful, and also necessary, to have concerts of faculty compositions," says Mumford. "Working with the performers is very rewarding - they have done a great job - and the opportunity to exchange musical ideas is so valuable. Plus, it gives the Oberlin community the chance to hear what we are doing, what we're creating." Works on the program include: Coleman's Grand Boogie, featuring pianist Michael Gallope; Nielson's The Horizon Divides, featuring Andrew Carlson, violin, and Nelson Harper, piano; Mumford's billowing pockets brightly layered, featuring Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello solo, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Conducting Mitchell Arnold conducting a 13-member Conservatory student instrumental ensemble; Rubin's Dreaming He Spoke, for amplified baroque oboe and digital audio, featuring Debra Nagy, baroque oboe; Two films by Gary Lee Nelson and Christine Gorbach titled Charitoo and Death and Transfiguration; Logan's Marrow of my Bone, from the song cycle Ice and Fire, featuring soprano Marcy Stonikas and pianist Kristin Ditlow, and If There Be Sorrow, featuring baritone Isaiah Musik-Ayala and Ditlow; Lopez's Swan Song, featuring Erica Dicker and Gillian Rivers, violin, Amy Cimini, viola, and Robin Reynolds, cello.
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