From Baroque To Jazz: Spring Concerts At Rutgers-Newark Span All Tastes

(NEWARK) Rutgers-Newark launches its spring concert season with a Feb. 3 performance of Renaissance and Baroque music by The Strathmere Ensemble. Their performance is the first in the campuss Chamber Music at Dana Library series, a series of free classical concerts.

Rutgers spring series of Jazz, Classical and World Music performances will begin Feb. 23 with a jazz performance by the Lewis Porter Quintet. Jazz lovers also should enjoy the spring/summer series of jazz talks sponsored by the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies.

All concerts as well as the jazz talks are open to the public, free of charge, and all are on the Newark campus of Rutgers. Here is a complete listing:

Chamber Music at Dana Library, the Dana Room, 185 University Ave.

Thursday, Feb. 3, 12:30 p.m., The Strathmere Ensemble, which will perform Vivaldi (Guitar Concerto) on lute; Telemann (Don Quixote Suite) for strings; Pachelbel (Canon and Gigue) and Bach (Air) on the G String. Featuring Mitsuru Tsubota and Mayuki Fukuhara on baroque violin; Elizabeth Miller, baroque viola; Daire FitzGerald, baroque cello; Jack Kulowitsch, double bass with baroque bow, and Bill Zito, lute.

Tuesday, March 22, 12:30 p.m., the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, playing Edvard Grieg and others, using instruments from the symphonys Golden Age collection of 18th Century instruments from Cremona, Italy, including instruments by Stadivarius and Guarneri.

Thursday, April 7, 12:30 p.m., Julianne Baird, soprano, performing Music from the Jane Austen Songbook. This performance combines readings from Austens novels with selections from Austens personal collection of music books, musical favorites that the author performed privately and for family and friends. Includes music by Hayden, Handel, Thomas Carter, Bach and others.

Jazz, Classical and World Music

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 12:30 p.m., Center for Law and Justice Atrium, Lewis Porter Quintet, performing jazz classics and blues. Featuring R-N Professor Lewis Porter with saxophonist Leo Johnson, director of the campus jazz ensemble Mosaic; Thaddeus Expose on bass; and Jerome Jennings on drums.

Wednesday, March 30, 2:30 p.m., Bradley Hall Theatre, Lewis Porter and Chris Forbes, jazz piano, solos and duets.

Monday, May 12, 11:30 a.m., Bradley Hall Lounge, Rutgers University Chorus-Newark campus, pre-Scotland tour concert, American and Scottish music and spirituals, and classical and folk selections

Jazz Studies Talks

Presented by the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, Dana Room, Dana Library, 185 University Ave. Refreshments will be served. Information: 973/353-5595. TIME FOR ALL JAZZ TALKS: 7 9 p.m.

January 20: Todd Weeks: Hot Lips Page

February 17: Francesco Martinelli: Trends in European Jazz, 1970-2000

March 17: William Bauer: Why Not Take All of Him? Louis Armstrong's Vocal Work and its Significance in His Output

April 5: Scott Currie: The Vision Festival: A Tenth Year Celebration (with guests)

May 10: Ed Joffe: The History of Woodwind Doubling in Jazz

June 16: Bob Porter: Questions and Answers--Saxophone Solos on R&B Records

July 14: Monk Rowe: Joe Williams

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