Smith Fine Arts Series

The 2009-10 line up includes an intimate recital with soprano Rebecca Fromherz, in the newly remodeled Smith Recital Hall.

Ms. Fromherz will pay tribute to the rich musical heritage of the city of Vienna. Since the late 18th Century dozens of great composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Mahler graced the concert halls and parlors in and around Vienna with their Lieder.

Bring all five senses with you to experience the music of this grand European city.

Rebecca Fromherz

The Koln-based Auryn String Quartet will make a stop on their U.S. tour at our very own Rice Auditorium.

The New York Times described a recent performance as "shared spirituality" and The Times of London said, "The Auryn Quartet gave a compellingly dramatic and magnificently assured performance."

The evening's program will include Brahms' Streichquartett a-moll op. 51 No. 2, Berg's Streichquartet, Op. 3 (1910), and Mendelssohn's Streichquartett f-moll op. 80.

Auryn String Quartet

For four decades Inti-Illimani's music has intoxicated audiences around the globe. In 2010, Inti-Illimani celebrates it's forty-third anniversary and the release of Pequeno Mundo, its forty-third album.Wedded in traditional Latin American roots and playing on more than thirty wind, string and percussion instruments, Inti-Illimani's compositions are a treasure for the human spirit. Their mellifluous synthesis of instrumentals and vocals captures sacred spaces, people's carnivals, daily lives, loves and pains that weave an extraordinary cultural mural. Please join us for an evening with this legendary Chilean group

Inti-Illimani

Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee, Mel Brown will bring

all three of his Jimmy Mak's bands to perform in one jazz

filled evening. The concert will kick off with the classic bop

sounds of the Mel Brown Septet, followed by the

delightfully swinging Mel Brown Quartet (featuring Tony

Pacini, Ed Bennett, and Dan Balmer), and will finish with

the high spirited grooves of the Mel Brown Hammond

B -3 Band (featuring Louis Pain, Dan Balmer, and Renato

Caranto). Take in a weeks worth of all-star bands in one

incredible evening.

The 2009-10 season finishes with an evening of jazz and

popular song performed by Verve recording artist Lizz

Wright and the American Metropole Orchestra. Stephen

Holden of the New York Times described Lizz Wright's

singing as "pitch-perfect, with a smoky, full-bodied texture

...impressive in its steadiness, control, and rhytmic subtlety."

Ms. Wright will be accompanied by the thirty-five piece

American Metropole Orchestra, in a concert of brand new

arrangements written specifically for this Smith Fine Arts

event.

Lizz Wright