Concert: Contemporary Music Ensemble

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Kenneth Bean '03 leads the Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) in Warner Concert Hall. CME features Oberlin Conservatory student musicians playing new pieces by a wide range of 20th- and 21st-century composers. This concert also features new works by faculty composer Michael Frazier and student composer Francesca Neibel-Spruill.

Program:

Jessie Montgomery Records from a Vanishing City (2016)

Francesca Neibel-Spruill Spiderlily (world premiere)

Michael Frazier escenas del Chimborazo (world premiere)

   Keyvar Smith-Herold, solo clarinet I

   Jesse R. Parham, solo clarinet II

Intermission

James MacMillan …as others see us… (1990)

View the March 4, 2025 program

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