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JAN FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Fugitive Resonance Festival: An Evening of Debussy. Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, and Roger Moseley, piano, perform a selection of songs, and students from the piano studio of Xak Bjerken/Ryan McCullough will perform solo works.

JAN SAT 11:00 AM Barnes Hall Fugitive Resonance Festival: Jocelyn Ho lecture-recital: Debussy the Romantic

JAN SAT 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Fugitive Resonance Festival: Mike Lee, piano, and Wayne Lee, violin: early 20th-century music, including Webern, Schoenberg, and Debussy’s sonata for violin and piano.

JAN SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Fugitive Resonance Festival: Music from early 20th-century Vienna, featuring Xak Bjerken and students performing Berg, Webern, Zemlinsky, Ravel, and Scriabin.

FEB SAT 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Matthew Hall, keyboards. William Byrd, Father of Music: harpsichord and organ music that traces Byrd’s development as a composer and performer.

FEB FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall * Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano, and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano: Art song of mid-20th-century Polish composers Palester, Bacewicz, and more that reflect on exile, war, and community.

FEB SAT 4:30 PM Sage Chapel New York Young Men Sing: guest clinician Rosalind Hall, associate professor and director of choirs at Brigham Young University.

FEB SAT 8:00 PM Anabel Taylor Chapel Nathan Laube, guest organist: J.S. Bach’s Dritter Teil der Klavierübung.

FEB SUN 3:00 PM Kulp Auditorium at Ithaca High School Jazz Ensemble concert with Ithaca High School and Ithaca College.

FEB FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano: works by Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, Schumann, and Fanny Mendelssohn.

FEB SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall ICU: Xak Bjerken performs solo and chamber works with friends from Ithaca College.

MAR FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Bass-baritone David Salsbery Fry and pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough: song cycle of poetry by Dennis Lee, Jim Henson’s longtime collaborator. McCullough also performs Crumb’s Makrokosmos I.

MAR SAT 3:00 PM Bailey Hall Wind Symphony, James Spinazzola, conductor: Juliana Pepinsky performs Ticheli’s Silver Lining Flute Concerto, plus Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, and more.

MAR SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Becky Lu, piano: works by Schubert and Ravel.

MAR THURS-SAT 7:00 PM Kiplinger Theatre at the Schwartz Center * Locally Grown Dance, directed by Jumay Chu and Byron Suber and featuring Annie Lewandowski’s band Powerdove. $

MAR SAT 3:00 PM Bailey Hall Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Slywotzky, conductor: Young Person’s Concert with Concerto Competition winner Aditya Deshpande performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, plus Pictures at an Exhibition.

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MAR SUN 4:00 PM St. Luke Lutheran Church Christophe Mantoux, guest organist: works by Mendelssohn, Boëly, Vierne, and Franck. In collaboration with Music at St. Luke.

MAR FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall* Ensemble X: soprano Tony Arnold and pianist Gábor Csalog perform György Kurtag’s The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7.

MAR SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Chamber Orchestra, Timna Mayer, director. Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, Mozart’s Die kleine Nachtmusik, Allegro; and Piazzolla’s Muerte del Angel and Libertango.

MAR WED 8:00 PM Barnes Hall David Kim, guest pianist: program of Schumann and Schubert.

MAR THURS 8:00 PM Barnes Hall* Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words): violinist Noyuri Hazama, cellist Eva Lymenstull, and keyboardist Shin Hwang explore the singable works of Schubert and Beethoven.

MAR SAT 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Festival Chamber Orchestra; James Spinazzola, conductor. Orchestral works by Cornell graduate composers performed by an ensemble of fourteen professional players.

MAR SUN 3:00 PM Bailey Hall Jazz Ensemble, Paul Merrill, director, and the Bissett Jazz Sextet, Peter Chwazik, coach, with guest artist Ingrid Jensen, trumpet. Music of modern women composers.

MAR TUES 8:00 PM Barnes Hall John Haines-Eitzen, cello; Aaron Berofksy, violin; and Matt Bengtson, piano perform Beethoven’s Archduke Trio, plus Haydn selections.

MAR WED 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Guest pianist Amir Katz performs Chopin’s twenty-seven Etudes. Musicologist Alan Walker gives a pre-concert lecture on his newest book, Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times.

APR WED 8:00 PM Anabel Taylor Chapel Anna Steppler, organ: a concert of psalm settings, including music by Jakob Praetorius, J.S. Bach and Anthoni van Noordt.

APR SAT 7:00 PM Sage Chapel Cornell Chamber Singers, Stephen Spinelli, conductor.

APR SUN 3:00 PM Barnes Hall Ensemble X: three pieces for sinfonietta, including Roberto Sierra’s “I am Carmen Miranda” featuring soprano Abigail Fischer; world premiere of Loren Loiacono’s Primum Non Nocere for piano, 4-hands.

APR SUN 7:00 PM Klarman Hall Chamber Winds, James Spinazzola, conductor: Mozart’s Serenade in E-flat, K. 375, and a semi-staged performance of the comic opera Bastien und Bastienne.

APR TUES 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, piano; works by Beethoven, Liszt, and Prokofiev.

APR WED 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Richard Valitutto, piano: Modern(Post)Modern, a recital of rare works from the last 80 years by composers Rebecca Saunders, György Kurtág, George Walker, Linda Catlin Smith, and more.

APR THUR 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Voice studio recital.

APR MON 7:00 PM Carriage House* Palonegro, a Latin American and Caribbean ensemble, will release its first EP.

APR TUES 8:00 PM Carriage House Ariana Kim, faculty violin recital.

APR THURS 8:00 PM Barnes Hall* CCCP presents TAKnTime: TAK ensemble will play works focusing on perceived duration, time manipulation, and the effect of sound on temporal experience.

APR FRI 7:00 PM Barnes Hall Chamber Orchestra, Timna Mayer, director. Concert features Cornell soloists and composers.

APR SAT 2:00 PM Barnes Hall Some Basso, Some Brahms: Elizabeth Lyon and friends play chamber music.

APR SAT 7:30 PM Bailey Hall Chorus & Glee Club, Robert Isaacs, director, collaborate with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra for Brahms’ A German Requiem. $ Tickets available at Baileytickets.com

APR SUN 3:00 PM Bailey Hall Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Slywotzky, conductor. Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3.

APR SUN 7:00 PM Carriage House Jazz Combo Showcase.

APR MON AND APR TUES 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Piano studio recitals with students of Shin Hwang (29th) and Xak Bjerken (30th).

MAY WED AND SUN 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Student chamber music recitals.

MAY THURS 8:00 PM Sage Chapel Michael Plagerman, organ: a program of late 19th c. American repertoire.

MAY FRI 8:00 PM Barnes Hall The Original Cornell Syncopators salute the Collegiate Jazz Bands of the 1920s and 30s, highlighting the legacy of students’ impact on the development of jazz.

MAY SAT 8:00 PM Lincoln Hall Percussion Ensemble, Michael Sparhuber, director.

MAY SUN 3:00 PM Bailey Hall Wind Symphony, Chorale, and Chamber Singers explore the works of Percy Grainger and Igor Stravinsky, including Lincolnshire Posy, Symphony of Psalms, and more.

MAY MON 5:00 PM Carriage House Violin studio recital.

MAY THURS 8:00 PM Barnes Hall Jazz Ensemble, Paul Merrill, director.

MAY FRI 8:00 PM Lincoln Hall “Swing Fling,” Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Repertory Ensemble; Paul Merrill, director. Big band arrangements with dancing and refreshments, plus dance instruction at 7:00 PM. Admission: $5 (at the door).

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Abigail Fischer; photo by Laura Rose

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Malcolm Bilson; photo by E. Zaslaw