Pianist and 乐播传媒 artist-in-residence Frank Glazer. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

With composers Franz Schubert and Joseph Haydn in common, back-to-back concerts at 乐播传媒 College’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall feature renowned pianist Frank Glazer and the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra.

Artist-in-residence Glazer performs music by Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7. Admission is $15, available at . Free tickets for a limited number of students and seniors 65-plus become available Nov. 5 at .

Associate Professor of Music Hiroya Miura directs the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra in a program of Verdi, Haydn and Schubert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. Admission is free, but tickets are required, available at .

Note: Some published listings carry an incorrect time for the orchestra concert. 7:30 p.m. is correct.

The Olin Arts Center Concert Hall is located at 75 Russell St. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Glazer’s program comprises Beethoven’s Six Bagatelles, Op. 126; Haydn’s Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI/27; and Schubert’s Sonata in D major, Op. 53, D. 850 (鈥淕asteiner鈥�).

Hiroya Miura conducts the 乐播传媒 College orchestra. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)

Glazer, born in 1915, continues to thrive in a performing career that began in 1928. In celebration of his 100th birthday, the college plans a celebration and recital for Glazer on Feb. 7 of next year.

An artist in residence at 乐播传媒 since 1980, Glazer taught previously at the Eastman School of Music and has performed throughout the world with leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The orchestra’s program consists of: Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” Overture; Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 in D major; and Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor聽 (“Unfinished”).

“Verdi’s overture, like many opera overtures, gives us a plate full of amuses-bouches from his opera with juicy tunes and dramatic sections,” says Miura. “In a similar vein, I always thought both Haydn and Schubert are incredible storytellers.

“Haydn’s music swings back and forth between humor and intense drama, while Schubert’s lyrical melodies take us to unexpected places with his harmonic twists and turns.”

The Spanish string quartet Cuarteto Quiroga. (脥帽igo Ib谩帽ez/Quincena Musical)

The Olin Arts Center Concert Hall offers a musical world tour March 13-16, giving listeners the choice of traditional Irish music, traditional and classical Chinese music, the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra with an international program and a renowned Spanish string quartet.

顿补苍煤, an Irish sextet hailed for “astonishing versatility and exuberance” (Geoff Wallis, Musical Traditions), performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13. Tickets cost $30 for the general public and $22 for seniors (65-plus) and students, and are available at .

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The Silk Trio, a group of innovative string players specializing in the music of China, plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 14. Tickets cost $10, also available at .

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Scott Ordway leads the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra in a program including a Mozart concerto for two pianos, with Frank Glazer and James Parakilas of the 乐播传媒 faculty as soloists, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15. The show is free but tickets are required, available through .

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Finally, the Olin Arts Alive Quartet Series presents the celebrated Spanish ensemble Cuarteto Quiroga with a program of Mozart, Bartok and Schoenberg at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 16. Tickets cost $12, available at .

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The Olin Arts Center Concert Hall is located at 75 Russell St. A limited number of free tickets for students and seniors (65-plus) are available for 顿补苍煤 (after March 10), Silk Trio and Cuarteto Quiroga at .

For more information, please contact 207-786-6163 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Scott Ordway conducts the University of Puget Sound Chamber Orchestra.

A conductor and prolific composer who has performed and taught across the U.S., Scott Ordway leads the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra in the world premiere of his Symphony No. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The program also includes Beethoven’s Overture to Coriolanus and Wagner’s聽Siegfried Idyll. Admission is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required, available at . For more information, please contact olinarts@bates.com or 207-786-6163.

Ordway, visiting assistant professor of music at 乐播传媒, started the symphony in Colorado in 2012 while he was a fellow at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, and continued it in Philadelphia and New York City. “The work reflects all three of those places, both the breadth and tranquility of the Rocky Mountains and the chaos and excitement of those two great cities.”

Stylistically, the work is “a hybrid of many different styles. Some passages are quite lyrical and romantic, and others are extremely chaotic, and I think most listeners would find them very modern.

“But I think they all contribute to a clear sense of structure.” Ordway says the piece consists of a single, 25-minute movement.

The piece is scored for strings, brass, tympani, harp and woodwinds. The orchestra will number about 35 and will incorporate 乐播传媒 students, community members and two professional musicians.

Among the brass players are Kirk Read, a professor of French and francophone studies, who plays tuba, and politics professor James Richter, a trombonist. “They’re both really excellent brass players,” Ordway says.

The symphony is technically challenging for the players, and is also challenging for younger musicians with less experience of tracking the overall development of a longer piece. “It requires a long-term focus and understanding of how each section fits into a larger whole.”

“But the students have really risen to the challenge, and it’s been a tremendous experience for everyone involved.”

Ordway structured the program with a continuum of moods in mind. The opener is the Beethoven overture, one of that composer’s lesser-heard works, which is “heavy and high-energy.” The Wagner, while varied, tends to be calmer, more lyrical.

And Ordway’s symphony, which constitutes the second half of the program, starts out tranquilly and builds from there.

Ordway notes that he is teaching a course this term on the history of the symphonic form and will invite his students in that course “to attend the premiere and hear the new work in the context of the last two centuries of symphonic music that they’ve studied.”

The orchestra of the Curtis Institute, in Philadelphia, where Ordway studied conducting, will record the symphony in December.

Ordway has also composed two full settings of the Mass, and numerous chamber, solo and choral works, many of which have been performed, recorded and broadcast by top ensembles throughout the United States and in Europe.

As a conductor, he has held posts with New York’s Syzygy New Music Ensemble and the Eugene (Oregon) Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and was in residence at the Boston Conservatory as associate conductor of the Juventas New Music Ensemble. In 2010-11 he was composer-in-residence and director of contemporary music at St. Mary铆s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

He earned his doctorate in 2013 from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Puget Sound.

Hiroya Miura conducts the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra. Photograph: Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College.

Three 乐播传媒 seniors are featured as instrumental soloists in works by Franz Strauss, Max Bruch and Wolfgang Mozart as the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. To reserve, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The 乐播传媒 orchestra is conducted by Hiroya Miura, associate professor of music. The March 9 program comprises five works:

Edvard Grieg’s music for Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1;

the first movement of Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 1, featuring hornist Molly Bruzzese of West Hartford, Conn.;

Bruch’s Romance for Viola and Orchestra, with Jessica Cooper of Unionville, Conn., as soloist;

the first movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major (K. 622), showcasing clarinetist Catherine Tuttle of Pittsford, N.Y.;

and Maurice Ravel’s Ma m猫re l’oye (“Mother Goose Suite”).

“We hosted a concerto competition this year,” Miura explains, “and with the high level of musicianship these three students showed, I was glad to program not just one, but three varied movements with three soloists.”

The program is further distinguished by its literary connections, Miura points out. Grieg originally wrote the Peer Gynt material in 1875 as incidental music for Ibsen’s play, while Ravel’s 1910 Mother Goose Suite was a response to children’s stories by Mother Goose Tales author Charles Perrault and others.

“The Ravel and Grieg are phantasmagorical, colorful suites,” Miura says. “Perrault wrote Ma m猫re l’oye for his own children, but some of the stories are quite poignant with a great sense of irony—like many of these children’s fables are.

“Grieg shares that humor and irony, but more blatantly, and both composers treated these stories masterfully while carefully balancing the sense of fantasy and ironic humor.”

Franz Strauss, father of the better-known composer Richard, was celebrated as a master of the horn. The first of his two concertos for the instrument, this work in C minor was premiered by the composer in 1865.

Bruch is known as a composer in the German Romantic vein exemplified by Brahms. He published his Romance for Viola and Orchestra in F major (Op. 85), one of the few Romantic-era compositions with viola as lead instrument, in 1911.

A standard audition piece for clarinetists, the first movement of the Mozart concerto is an allegro. Written in 1791 and one of the composer’s last compositions, the concerto as a whole is characterized by the delicacy of the conversation between soloist and orchestra.

Hiroya Miura conducts the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra.

Music written for the recent inauguration of 乐播传媒 College President A. Clayton Spencer is featured in the next performance of the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra, taking place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Hiroya Miura, associate professor of music, is the orchestra’s music director and conductor. Admission to the concert is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The orchestra’s program comprises Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, and the inauguration music composed by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at 乐播传媒, which begins the evening.

Matthews composed a setting for the Wallace Stevens poem “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm.” The piece was the musical centerpiece for the Oct. 26 installation of President Spencer, who chose Stevens’ contemplative poem for her inaugural program.

Stevens’ text will be sung by the 乐播传媒 College Choir. Matthews’ setting also includes readings from three different cultures presented by 乐播传媒 students in their native languages — Amna Ilyas, a senior from Faisalabad, Pakistan, reading in Urdu; Adnan Shami Shah, a sophomore from Kathmandu, Nepal, reading in Nepali; and So Hee Ki, a first-year student from Irvine, Calif., reading in Korean.

The Brahms work, considered a turning point in the composer’s confidence and skill in orchestral composition, is a masterful set of independent variations on a theme that was attributed to Haydn in Brahms’ day, but is now believed to be the product of a student of Haydn’s.

One of Beethoven’s most popular works, his Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, was premiered just shy of 199 years prior to the 乐播传媒 performance. The piece is known for the emotional spectrum that it encompasses, from dancelike ebullience to the melancholia of the second movement. The symphony is also celebrated for the composer’s brilliant transitions from key to key.

Hiroya Miura conducts the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra.

Conducted by Hiroya Miura of the 乐播传媒 faculty, the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra performs Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 and Debussy’s聽“Pr茅lude 脿 l’apr猫s-midi d’un faune” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10.

The concert will take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., and is open to the public at no cost. However, because of limited seating, tickets are required. For tickets and more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

“At first, Brahms and Debussy seem to be at aesthetic opposites,” says Miura. “Brahms is the height of the 19th-century German ‘absolute music’ — music that is about only itself, with no external references. And Debussy was self-consciously trying to redefine French music.

“These two pieces, however, were written only 10 years apart, and in spite of the difference in their harmonic language, I am struck by their similarly organic treatment of the rhythm. The composers were both masters of form and the organization of musical motifs.”

The 27 students in the orchestra (the other 18 players are musicians from the community) will find “both pieces challenging for various reasons: rhythm, orchestral balance, expression, etc.,” Miura adds. “However, I find both pieces are absolutely worth the effort for their sublime musical quality.”

Hiroya Miura conducts the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra in a 2006 rehearsal.

It’s a big weekend for classical music Nov. 12-13, as the 乐播传媒 and Bowdoin Orchestra and pianist Frank Glazer present back-to-back concerts in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The orchestra, which will be conducted at 乐播传媒 by Hiroya Miura and includes musicians from 乐播传媒 and Bowdoin colleges, plays works by Bartok, Haydn and Mendelssohn at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12.

Glazer performs music by Berg, Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, in the concert hall.

Both concerts are open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required. Please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Pianist and artist-in-residence Frank Glazer.

The orchestra program consists of Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances; Haydn’s Symphony No. 99 in E-flat major; and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”).

The ensemble also performs this program at 3 p.m. the following day at Bowdoin’s Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, conducted by Bowdoin’s Roland Vazquez.

“The Haydn and Mendelssohn symphonies both have connections to London,” Hiroya explains. The 99th symphony is the seventh of the so-called “London Symphonies,” which Haydn wrote during his second visit to London where he was invited by the violinist and impresario Johann Peter Salomon to conduct large orchestras.

Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ symphony was commissioned by the London, now Royal, Philharmonic Society, which Salmon founded with a few other members 20 years prior. “Although the pieces by Haydn and Mendelssohn are 40 years apart, in my mind they both share the cosmopolitan flair that Europeans, especially Londoners, were enjoying at the time.”

Hiroya adds, “Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances show yet another aspect of the European cosmopolitanism, although Bartok was much more invested in the local roots of Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian folk music.”

The 96-year-old Glazer, an internationally acclaimed pianist, has been an artist in residence at 乐播传媒 since 1980. Here’s his program:

Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op. 1: Berg and Glazer were both students of Arnold Schoenberg, the composer who introduced the notion of atonality and the 12-tone approach to composition. Berg composed this early sonata, which is still tonal and rooted in traditional sonata form, while he was Schoenberg’s student.

Beethoven’s 15 Variations and Fugue in E Flat Major, Op. 35 (鈥淓roica鈥� Variations): One of two theme-and-variations works that Beethoven considered substantial enough to assign opus numbers — works in which he elevated the form to a new level. This shares a melodic theme with three other compositions, including the “Eroica” Symphony, hence the nickname for this piece.

Brahms’ Theme and Variations from the String Sextet in B Flat Major, Op. 18: This arrangement for solo piano of the second movement of Brahms’s Op. 18 String Sextet, composed early in his career, was a gift for Clara Schumann, the widow of his friend Robert Schumann.

Brahms’ Scherzo in E Flat Minor, Op. 4: The earliest published Brahms composition, composed at age 18.

And three by Liszt:

Legende No. 1: Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi’s well-known story in which he delivers a sermon to the birds.

Ann茅es de P茅lerinage: Sonetta 104 del Petrarcha is one of a series of 26 piano pieces that Liszt composed over four decades, an autobiographical series inspired by the journey to maturity undertaken by Goethe’s fictional Wilhelm Meister.

罢丑别听Rigoletto Paraphrase is based on a vocal quartet from the fourth act of Verdi’s opera by that name.

Conducted by Hiroya Miura, the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra performs Beethoven’s landmark Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) and Richard Strauss’ Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The concert is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required and can be reserved by contacting 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

The Beethoven symphony and the Strauss serenade, says Miura, “are full of youthful energy from these two German composers.”

The Beethoven symphony is a milestone in symphonic music, a work marking the transition from the formal strictures of the Classical period to the more emotional, organically unfolding style of the Romantic.

The 乐播传媒 Orchestra concert comes just days before Miura premieres two of his own compositions at the JapanNYC Festival organized by Carnegie Hall, with Seiji Ozawa as artistic director, in March and April.聽 Miura’s “Mitate” will be performed by the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, March 29. Line C3, also a percussion ensemble, debuts his “Blowout” at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on Saturday, April 2. Both concerts begin at 8 p.m. .

The Strauss serenade, meanwhile, is the earliest composition by this late-Romantic composer to endure in the repertoire. It’s scored for flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, bassoons, contrabassoon or tuba, and bass.

“Eroica,” which Beethoven completed in 1803, was written as he was coming to grips with hearing problems that would culminate in total deafness.

“It was probably the first time in history that a symphony became so intensely personal and dramatic,” Miura says, “and the ‘Eroica’ was by far the longest, and perhaps the most substantial, symphonic work of its time.”

The work makes bold use of brass instruments, especially French horn, “and it’s no surprise that the ‘Eroica’ was one of the most influential works for young Strauss, whose father was an orchestral horn player.

“It’s also no coincidence that this serenade by the hand of 18-year-old Strauss is in the key of E-flat major, the key of the ‘Eroica’ and Strauss’ later work ‘A Hero’s Life,’ ” Miura says. “I hope the audience will enjoy the virtual musical dialogue between young Strauss and Beethoven in these two works.”

Three dance performances featuring work by local and New York choreographers, a film from Serbia in the Global Lens films series, concerts by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the combined 乐播传媒 and Bowdoin college orchestra featuring pianist Frank Glazer: Why stay home?

For the second consecutive season, the orchestras of 乐播传媒 and Bowdoin colleges combine forces for a concert at each institution. The 乐播传媒 and Bowdoin College Orchestra performs with renowned pianist Frank Glazer as a soloist at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

Conducted by Hiroya Miura of the 乐播传媒 faculty, the program’s featured work is Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor. Also in store is Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 (“Spring”).

Miura conducts the 乐播传媒 College Orchestra and teaches composition and music theory. A native of Sendai, Japan, he has been active as a composer and performer in North America. Acclaimed by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times as “acidic and tactile” in his composing, Miura has written music for Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, American Composers Orchestra, le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and members of Reigakusha, an ensemble based in Tokyo.

He is also a founding member of the electronic improvisation unit NoOneReceiving, whose debut album won critical acclaim in Italy, Portugal, and the United States.

The 95-year-old Glazer has been an artist in residence at 乐播传媒 since 1980.聽 A vital presence on the music scene in Maine and beyond, he was a student of Artur Schnabel and Arnold Schoenberg and is at home in every style of music from Bach to contemporary. He has concertized in more than 24 countries; appeared on his own television show; made more than 50 recordings and performed 30 world premieres.

Last season, Glazer’s many concerts at 乐播传媒 included the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. In April, 乐播传媒 released his CD .