Coffee with Kaizer... Musical happenings for the weeks of February 4th...

Wow its already February! Amazing how quickly time flies! But the good news is that there is still plenty of music to go around for the rest of the season. Here is Laraine's weekly update of concerts and recitals happening about town.

Have a great and culturally filled week everyone.

Monday February 4th 7:30pm
Oboe and Bassoon recital by UNLV professors
Stephen Caplan and Janis McKay, joined by visiting
piano professor Timothy Hoft, program includes "Three Chorals with Ostinati" by Henry Cowell, "Andy Warhol Sez" by Moravec,
"Trio for Oboe Bassoon and Piano" by Francaix, and a commissioned work by Bill Douglas: Trio no. 2 which includes a "Bebop Waltz"
UNLV Beam Music Center - "Doc" Rando Hall
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
Free and Open to the Public
more info 702-895-3332
http://www.unlv.edu/node/18715

Wednesday February 6th 7:30pm
Piano Recital of all Beethoven by Mannes School of Music Piano Professor
Dr. Jerome Rose, program includes the "Waldstein, Pathetique and Appassionata" Piano Sonatas
UNLV Beam Music Center - "Doc" Rando Hall
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
Free and Open to the Public(see attached flier)
more info 702-895-3332 

Thursday February 7th 10:00am-12:00noon
Piano masterclass with Mannes School of Music Piano Professor
Dr. Jerome Rose, he will work UNLV piano majors
UNLV Beam Music Center - "Doc" Rando Hall
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
Free and Open to the Public
more info 702-895-3332

Thursday February 7th 7:30pm
Flute Recital by Professor of Flute at U of Nebraska, Lincoln:
John Bailey, program includes Handel: "'Sonata in e minor," Blumer's "Suite for Flute and Piano,"
Reinecke's "Sonata in E Minor 'Undine'" and Takemitsu's "Itinerant"
UNLV HFA building (music office building) room 147 (last classroom on the south end-opposite the Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery)
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
Free and Open to the Public
more info 702-895-3332
http://www.unlv.edu/node/19438

Friday February 8th 11:30am
Flute masterclass with Professor of Flute at U of Nebraska, Lincoln:
John Bailey, he will work with UNLV flute majors
UNLV Beam Music Center - "Doc" Rando Hall
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
Free and Open to the Public
more info 702-895-3332

Saturday February 9th 6:30am
Traditional dance of the Aztec Nation by Izel Ballet Folklorico with help from "Yoneme"
a dance troupe from Tijuana, Mexico
Winchester Cultural Center
3130 S. McCleod Dr.
Las Vegas NV 89121
$10 in advance, $12 at door
more info 702-455-7340

Sunday February 10th 3:00am
Nevada Chamber Symphony Children's Concert
introduces young people to the orchestral instruments, famous composers and their compositions
Clark County Library
1401 E. Flamingo Rd.
Las Vegas NV 89119
Free and Open to the Public
more info: 702-507-3400

Upcoming!!!

Monday February 11th 7:30pm
BBC Concert Orchestra performs Walton's "Suite from Henry V,"
"Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 featuring soloist Sophie Shao, and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"
Keith Lockhart is conducting
Smith Center for the Performing Arts
361 Symphony Park Ave.
Las Vegas NV 89106
$39-$119
more info: 702-749-2000
http://www.thesmithcenter.com/events/bbc-concert-orchestra/

Thursday February 14th 7:30pm
Wind Chamber Music Concert by "Zephyros Winds" featuring
Dr. Jennifer Grim, UNLV flute professor, Saxton Rose, Bassoon professor of North Carolina School of the Arts,  Zohar Schondorf, Principal Horn of the American Symphony Orchestra, James Roe, Acting Oboe Principal of New Jersey Symphony and Marianne Gythfeldt, Clarinet professor at the University of Delaware. UNLV Beam Music Center - "Doc" Rando Hall
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154
$25 discounts available for seniors/military/disabled, student rush tickets available 1 hour prior to concert
limit 1 per student
more info 702-895-2787
http://www.unlv.edu/node/16163

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