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Lawrence University One Hundred Seventy-First Commencement, Sunday, June 14, 2020

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1-27-2020 8:00 PM 
Guest Recital, CJ Camerieri, Trumpet, January 27, 2020 
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Guest Recital 
 
 
 
CJ Camerieri, trumpet  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Monday, January 27, 2020 
8:00 p.m. 
Harper Hall 
 
 
  
 
 
Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone Francis Poulenc 
 Allegro moderato  (1899-1963) 
 Andante  
 Rondeau  
CJ Camerieri, trumpet 
Ann Ellsworth, horn 
Tim Albright, trombone 
 
 
Soft Night CJ Camerieri & Trever Hagen 
Nowhere 
Invisible Walls 
Slantwise 
[untitled] 
 
CJ Camerieri, trumpet 
Trever Hagen, electronics 
 
 
PERFORMER BIO 
 
 As a trumpet player, french hornist, arranger, and keyboard player, CJ 
Camerieri has enjoyed an active, diverse, and exciting career since 
completing his classical trumpet training at The Juilliard School. He has 
become an indispensable collaborator for numerous indie rock groups as a 
performer, arranger, improviser, and soloist and is a co-founder of the 
contemporary classical ensemble yMusic. yMusic’s debut record was 
named Time Out New York’s #1 Classical Record of 2011, the same year 
that Camerieri won two Grammys as a member of Bon Iver for the band’s 
sophomore record, which later reached gold status. He is currently the 
newest member of Paul Simon’s band, joining for 2014’s “Paul Simon and 
Sting: On Stage Together” tour. 
 After graduating from The Juilliard School with a degree in Classical 
Trumpet Performance, CJ began working in alternative music as the 
Trumpet player, French Horn player, and keyboardist for Sufjan Stevens 
in January of 2006. He then went on to tour the world as a member of 
Rufus Wainwright’s band in 2007-2008 before founding yMusic in the 
spring of 2008. CJ then toured with The National, Sean Lennon, and The 
Plastic Ono Band before joining Bon Iver in 2011 and winning two 
Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album. In 2014 
CJ became the newest member of Paul Simon’s touring band. 
 As an arranger, trumpet player, french horn player, and keyboardist 
CJ’s discography includes well over 200 recordings including current and 
forthcoming releases by Paul Simon, Bon Iver, yMusic, Sufjan Stevens, 
The National, Rufus Wainwright, The Tallest Man on Earth, David 
Byrne, Antony and the Johnsons, Martha Wainwright, Loudon 
Wainwright III, Gabriel Kahane, Angus and Julia Stone, Ingrid 
Michaelson, The Staves, My Brightest Diamond, Sean Lennon, Yuka 
Honda, GOASTT, Jesse Harris, She and Him, Harper Simon, Chris 
Garneau, Clare and the Reasons, Welcome Wagon, Anthony Coleman, 
ACME, The New York Trumpet Ensemble, Argento New Music Ensemble 
and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. 
 


Guest Recital, CJ Camerieri, Trumpet, January 27, 2020

Volume CXXXVII, Number 16, February 28, 2020

Volume CXXXVII, Number 15, February 21, 2020

Volume CXXXVII, Number 14, February 14, 2020

Lawrence University 
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1-18-2020 8:00 PM 
Fifth House Ensemble, January 18, 2020 
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Fifth House 
Ensemble
New Music Series 2019–20
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FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE
Musicians
Melissa Ngan, flute
Herine Coetzee Koschak, cello
Katherine Petersen, piano
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Harper Hall, Music-Drama Center
8 p.m.
PROGRAM
Lipstick Jacob TV
(b. 1951)
in manus tuas Caroline Shaw
(b. 1982)
Soundings Dan Visconti
(b. 1982)
INTERMISSION
Ballade Kaija Saariaho
(b. 1952)
Vox Balaenae George Crumb
(b. 1929)
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program 
of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with 
additional contributions from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Crane Group.
PROGRAM NOTES
JacobTV—Lipstick
Dutch avant-pop composer JacobTV has been a 5HE favorite for many 
years. A rock musician who went on to study composition and electronic 
music on the conservatory level, JacobTV is obsessed with American 
media and news, drawing his inspiration from all corners of our pop 
culture including infomercials, talk shows, commercial products, radio and 
nightly newscasts. Lipstick, a work that is part of his series of “boombox” 
pieces for solo instrument and ghettoblaster (as affectionately named by 
the composer), is a duo between the flute and a fixed electronic track that 
contains clips from a relationship therapist with a heavy French accent 
(“you are jumping all those hoops”), young and desperate lovers on an 
American talk show (“2 years ago, we”), and Billie Holiday speaking lyrics 
from her favorite song (“Skip that lipstick—and I know you cheat”). All 
along, the flute mimics the rhythms and pitches of the recorded speech, 
illustrating the excitement, frenetic energy, paranoia and resignation of 
young failed love.
—Melissa Ngan
Caroline Shaw—in manus tuas
in manus tuas is based on an earlier motet, in this case that of Thomas 
Tallis. While there are only a few slices of the piece that reflect exact 
harmonic changes in Tallis’ setting, the motion (or lack of) is intended 
to capture the sensation of a single moment of hearing the motet in the 
particular and remarkable space of Christ Church in New Haven, Conn.
in manus tuas was written in 2009 for cellist Hannah Collins, for a secular 
cello compline service held in the dark, candlelit nave.
—Caroline Shaw
Dan Visconti—Soundings
Soundings refers to the most fundamental properties of musical 
instruments and the very act of bringing sound to life, and this new trio 
likewise grows from primal sounds to a celebration of sound itself, a 
joyous and universal expression that explores the depths contained in 
the most simple and familiar sounds.
Seven short movements alternate between ensemble pieces and 
cadenzas for each of the trio members—virtuosic outbursts where 
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all three musicians produce sound by ganging up on one instrument 
and banging out a racket that could never be achieved by two hands 
unassisted. A series of auxiliary devices are explored as the instruments 
are probed and sounded in a series of offbeat episode involving rubber 
balloons, tuning pegs and ping-pong balls.
The inspiration behind all these shenanigans lies in the old folk tale of 
“Stone Soup,” which lies at the heart of Fifth House Ensemble’s work in 
community. These eyebrow-raising etudes are a celebration of the spirit 
of exploration and arts as service that inspired me to join Fifth House as 
composer and artistic director.
The work is graciously commissioned by Chamber Music America’s 
Classical Commissioning Program.
—Dan Visconti
Kaija Saariaho—Ballade
Saariaho writes:
“In this short piece I wanted to write music with a melody that grows out 
of the texture before descending into it again; a work that constantly 
shifts from a complex, multi-layered texture to concentrated single lines 
and back again.
Why Ballade? Manny asked specifically for a piece bearing this title, and  
I wrote it for him in July of 2005.”
Typically, a ballade is a piece of poetry or a piece of music that tells 
the story of a journey over time, with or without words. There have 
been many famous ballades written for the piano over the centuries; 
most notably the four Chopin Ballades, the four Brahms Ballades, and 
the Fauré Ballade. Chopin’s Ballades are generally thought of to exist 
as non-programmatic works, though they show a distinct story-telling 
characteristic in the way the music appears to have a plot. Brahms on the 
other hand, provides a distinct text that pairs with the first of his Ballades, 
and each of the subsequent ballades seems to evoke a particular mood, 
even without a programmatic element. Saariaho’s own description of the 
piece implies a very distant relationship with the origins of the ballade, 
however the text in and of itself tells the journey of a melody. This 
journey begins with a desperate plea and quickly falls into a path of deep, 
dark despair. As the melody descends, she explores the depths of the 
instrument, challenging the performer to fight against the ever-changing 
murmuring in the bass, giving the work an unsettling feeling. At moments 
the melody seems to break free of its murky constraints, only to get 
dragged down into the depths again. With one last shriek at the end, the 
final pitch of the melody, is repeated in a frenzy, and is eventually dragged 
down the length of the piano to an abrupt close.
—Katherine Petersen
George Crumb—Vox Balaenae
Inspired by recordings of humpback whale song, George Crumb traces 
the passage of earthly time using the eponymous creature as a sort of 
narrator. In the Vocalise (... for the beginning of time), we hear the flute 
setting a scene full of primordial pops and crackles. The piano quotes 
Strauss’ opening to “Also Sprach Zarathustra” as a fanfare to the birth of 
time. The Variations on Sea Time begin with the cello playing an ethereal 
theme in harmonics, assuming the timbre of the flute from the previous 
section but now in a more melodic and traditional way. Five variations 
trace the geologic periods of time, each becoming increasingly agitated 
and conflicted as the life forms become more complex. These give way 
to the Sea Nocturne (... for the end of time), which re-imagines the Sea 
Theme in an undulating, serene, underwater scape. One imagines the 
whale soaring through a vastness that is muted and peaceful in spite of 
the inherent chaos above the surface. The piece’s expansive treatment of 
time reminds us that even momentous historic events are mere blips in 
the grand continuum of evolution.
—Herine Coetzee Koschak
MUSICIAN BIOS
Melissa Ngan
A passionate advocate for chamber music, Melissa Ngan is a founding 
member of Fifth House Ensemble. A dynamic educator and coach, 
Melissa currently teaches a music entrepreneurship course at DePaul 
University, and has served as professor of flute at Carthage College. 
As Fifth House Ensemble’s Executive Director, Melissa drives the 
organization’s entrepreneurship programs, having created training 
programs for New England Conservatory, the Colburn School, Indiana 
University, the Eastman School of Music, TEDx Michigan Ave, and the 
Fresh Inc festival on arts entrepreneurship and creative programming. 
Her writing has been featured on the Entrepreneur the Arts blog and 
Huffington Post.
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Having held positions with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the 
Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Peninsula Music Festival, Melissa’s 
performance activities have spanned South America, Europe, Russia and 
Japan. Previous award credits include First Prize at the National Flute 
Association’s Orchestral Audition Competition. Melissa is a graduate of 
the Eastman School of Music and Northwestern University, with principal 
teachers including Bonita Boyd and Walfrid Kujala. Melissa is not only 
a well-known flutist and educator—she also makes a mean spread of 
Brazilian food and a mouth-watering chocolate pecan bourbon pie.
Herine Coetzee Koschak
An avid conversationalist, cellist Herine Coetzee Koschak is on a lifelong 
quest to engage in meaningful and personal exchanges through music. 
Herine is a founding member of Fifth House Ensemble and is regularly 
heard on local and national radio stations and concert stages, as well as 
on the Cedille record label. As a passionate advocate of music education 
in underserved communities, Herine joined the faculty of the Merit 
School of Music in 2002 and served as Co-Director of the Suzuki-Alegre 
Strings Program and the String Department Chair from 2010–2014. She 
has appeared as a featured soloist with numerous orchestras including 
the National Repertory Orchestra, the Nittany Valley Symphony, and 
International Chamber Artists. Herine has held titled positions in the Civic 
Orchestra of Chicago and the National Repertory Orchestra, and has also 
performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the renowned 
new music ensemble, Eighth Blackbird. An Indiana University alumna, her 
principal teachers were Janos Starker and Emilio Colon. She resides in 
Deerfield, Ill. with her husband and young son, with whom she shares  
a love of Nutella.
Katherine Petersen 
Described as a “strong and exciting performer” who plays with “musical 
feeling and great technical skill” by the New York Classical Review, 
pianist Katherine Petersen enjoys a versatile career performing and 
educating young musicians locally and nationally. Always interested in 
the collaborative aspects of a pianist’s career, Petersen is in demand for 
regular performances with local and national artists. She has held staff 
collaborative pianist positions at the Conservatory and Schulich School of 
Music of McGill University, Killington Music Festival, Bowdoin International 
Music Festival, and the Montreal Symphony’s Standard Life Competition. 
As her true connection with performing has always been through chamber 
music, she founded a violin and piano chamber duo, Duo FAE, with 
a longtime friend. Equally dedicated to the two facets of her career, 
Petersen has held teaching positions at the Schulich School of Music of 
McGill University, McGill Conservatory of Music, Merit School of Music, 
and is currently on faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago. Petersen is a 
graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and Schulich School 
of Music of McGill University where her principal teachers included Vivian 
Weilerstein, Stéphane Lemelin and Sara Laimon. In her free time, she is 
an avid cyclist and enjoys watching sci-fi movies.
About Fifth House Ensemble
Praised by the New York Times for its “conviction, authority, and 
finesse,” the Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble (5HE) harnesses the 
collaborative spirit of chamber music to reach beyond the traditionally-
perceived limits of classical music. The ensemble’s artistic, educational 
and civic programs engage theater groups, video game designers, 
corporate innovators and folk bands to share stories as diverse as the 
communities it serves.
Performances in previous seasons include those at Texas Performing 
Arts, Civic Music Association (IA), Old Town School of Folk Music, WFMT 
Impromptu, Steppenwolf Theater, Rush Hour Concerts at St. James, 
National Sawdust (NY) and the Miller Theatre (NY).
In addition to the ensemble’s work on the concert stage, 5HE reaches 
17,000 students annually through its arts-integrated programming, and 
trains emerging artists nationwide as a curriculum design partner to 
higher education institutions and through its summer festival, Fresh Inc.
For more information, visit www.fifth-house.com.
Fifth House Ensemble is supported in part by the Alphawood Foundation, 
The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince, the National 
Endowment for the Arts, the Steven R. Gerber Trust, the Gaylord and 
Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago 
Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Chamber Music America, 
the Northern Trust Charitable Trust, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, 
the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, New Music USA, the Paul R. Judy 
Center for Innovation & Research, and by a grant from the Illinois Arts 
Council Agency.
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CO20-102
NEW MUSIC SERIES 2019–20 
Brooklyn Rider 
Friday, October 4, 2019, 8 p.m.
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence University New Music Ensemble presents 
Ten Thousand Birds
Sunday, October 13, 2019, 2 p.m.
Main Hall Green
Fifth House Ensemble
Saturday, January 18, 2020, 8 p.m.
Harper Hall, Music Drama Center
Transient Canvas
Friday, April 10, 2020, 8 p.m.
Harper Hall, Music Drama Center
Ian Dicke
Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 8 p.m.
Harper Hall, Music Drama Center
go.lawrence.edu/newmusic1920


Fifth House Ensemble, January 18, 2020

This lecture on Thomas Seeley’s Honeybee Democracy was recorded in September 2020.  The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the Freshman Studies program.  This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Alyssa Hakes, is Associate Professor of Biology at Lawrence.  Professor Hakes is an evolutionary ecologist with interests in plant-insect interactions and spatial statistics.  Her research has been published in the American Journal of Botany, Ecology, Global Ecology and Conservation, and The International Journal of Plant Sciences

Hakes, Alyssa

From Appledore to Appleton: Unexpected Lessons from Seeley\u27s Honeybee Democracy

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2020 
Excellence in Teaching Award Citation for Celia Barnes 
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2020 UNIVERSITY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING 
Celia Barnes 
A specialist in 18th-century British literature, you have 
published essays and presented papers on the work of 
Laurence Sterne and Samuel Johnson; your recent induction 
into the Johnsonian Society, an eminent assembly of 
scholars, lexicographers, and collectors, testifies to the 
significance of your research. It is a pleasure to complement 
this recognition of excellence of your scholarship with today's 
award recognizing the excellence of your teaching, teaching 
characterized not only by a passion for your chosen subject 
but also an eagerness to instill in your students an enthusiasm 
for learning in the broadest sense. 
Described by a student as" one of those relatable, approachable 
professors that you really only find at Lawrence," you have 
a talent for creating a "living, breathing connection" to 
literature that, in less pedagogically adept hands, more than a 
few of today's undergraduates might find remote or daunting. 
"One of the best professors at Lawrence"-in the words of 
many students- you elegantly balance support with challenge: 
a skill that comes in handy during the 10..week tour of Samuel 
Richardson's Clarissa. Your assignments and classroom 
activities- such as the Curiosity Cabinet, the in-class pen 
pal exercise, and Skyping with Scholars-deepen students' 
engagement with the material in novel and exciting ways. 
"Celia Barnes is unlike any professor I had during my time 
at Lawrence," one student observed. "She is unapologetic 
(in a good way), brazen, and enco urages students to ask 
questions, challenge each other and pre-conceived notions, 
and step out of their comfort zones to expand their knowledge 
and horizons." 
Over the course of your ten years at Lawrence, you have 
partnered with faculty colleagues in Philosophy and Physics 
to offer courses that h elp students understand the range and 
importance of 18th century art and thought, from Newton's 
theories to the thinking of the Enlightenment. You are an 
eminent scholar, a generous colleague, and a dedicated, 
superb teacher, and it gives me great pleasure to recognize 
your accomplishments today with the 2020 Award for 
Excellence in Teaching. 
June 2020 
