> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.smdp.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Shmoozing with Schubert
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/shmoozing-with-schubert/
- Published: 2004-03-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:04:20.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Pico, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The Santa Monica College Music Department will present a three-day celebration of the works of famed Romantic composer Franz Schubert, featuring vocal selections, chamber music, military marches, and piano, string and orchestral works. The event will also include a ballet presentation.

Concerts — all free — are scheduled for March 30, April 1 and April 3 in the SMC Concert Hall, 1900 Pico Blvd.

The “Schubertiad” brings together the talent of SMC professors, students, accompanists and guest artists, all under the direction of SMC music professor James Martin.

“We are blessed here at SMC to have many fine musicians on our faculty, combined with talented students in our Applied Music Program, now in its third year,” Martin said. “This is the third year we are celebrating the works of a famed composer — in 2002 it was Bach and last year it was Haydn and Beethoven.”

The concerts are: ■Tuesday, March 30 at 11:15 a.m.: Schubert’s Vocal Music, featuring an all-male cast of performers — SMC professors Drew Holt, Dennis Parnell and William Trabold, plus student Shawn Thuris — singing selected art songs as well as “Erlking” set to Goethe’s poetry. An augmented all-male chorus will perform the finale, a selection of songs. The accompanists are Donald Fredrickson, Gary Gray and professor David Goodman, with music department chair James Smith conducting. ■Thursday, April 1 at 11:15 a.m.: Schubert’s Chamber Music, featuring a popular Viennese military march piano duo, with professors Goodman and Rhoda Tuit; a student-faculty string trio featuring violinist Nazanin Eliahoo, violist Miyuki Hokazano, and cellist Andrew Nestler (who teaches math at SMC); faculty pianists Joan Mills and Jung Eun Kim collaborating on the f minor “Fantasy;” a faculty and guest duo featuring Jeffrey Lavner performing “Sonatina in D Major” for violin and piano; and professor Frank Turner conducting a German Band. ■Saturday, April 3 at 8 p.m.: Schubert’s Orchestral & Ballet Music, featuring the SMC Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Smith and Martin, presenting a concert including Schubert’s Symphonies No. 5 and No. 8\. Also on the program will be a ballet choreographed by dance professor Judith Douglas to the music of “Rosamunde.”

For information, call (310) 434-4323.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 27, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)