Bill Raffel previews the UB Music Department's June in Buffalo concerts, which include tubist Raymond StewartBy Bill Raffel, WBFO
Buffalo, NY – The annual June in Buffalo New Music Festival presents a very eclectic brass quintet and then some. Good morning. I'm Bill Raffel with Music Notes.
We're really getting low on Music Notes! Last week, we welcomed String Bassist Edgar Meyer. This morning, we turn to a tuba player, Raymond Stewart. He's a professor at SUNY Fredonia and also a member of the Meridian Arts Ensemble, in residence at UB next week for June in Buffalo, and giving a concert on Friday, June 7th in Slee Hall. Ray and four other brass players got together as grad students in New York City and decided they wanted to have a different sound than other brass ensembles.
See Raymond Stewart and other members of the Meridian Arts Ensemble a week from this Friday, June 7th at 8 p.m. in Slee Hall on UB's North Campus. Other June in Buffalo concerts begin next Monday (6/3).
This week at UB, the Alexander String Quartet concludes the Slee Beethoven Quartet Cycle, Thursday (5/30), Friday (5/31), and Saturday (6/1) nights at 8 p.m. in Slee Hall.
The Buffalo Philharmonic spotlights swing music with special guests Five by Design. Ron Spigelman conducts Friday (5/31) at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday (6/1) at 8 p.m. in Kleinhans.
The Fourteen Holy Helpers Church Choir presents a free spring concert Sunday at five, at the corner of Union and Indian Church Roads in West Seneca.
Tenor, Guitarist, and Poet Michael Arden Sulzbach gives a recital called From Bach to Rock Saturday (6/1) at 7 p.m. in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, at the corner of Elmwood and West Ferry.
And the American Legion Band of the Tonawandas begins its summer concert series at the WNY Dairy Festival Grounds in Springville, Friday (5/31) at 8 p.m.