TRITONUS

Tritonus was formed in 2001 as the resident faculty string emsemble at the University of Dayton. The members are violinist Lyn Ritz, violist Phillip Magnuson, and cellist Jeffrey Schoyen.

For more information about the Tritonus concert and educational activities, you can write to them at:
University of Dayton, Department of Music, Dayton, OH 45469-0290
or e-mail: magnuson@udayton.edu
or phone 937.229.3907

PROGRAMS:

13 February 2002

• Erno v. Dohnanyi: Serenade, op 10
• Mozart: Divertimento in Eb major, K. 563

MARIAN DUO

Tritonus had its beginings with the formation of the Marian Duo (Lyn Ritz and Phillip Magnuson, both alternating on violin and viola) in 1995.

PROGRAMS:

26 January 1997 (assisted by guitarist Jim McCutcheon)

• Bartok: Nine Violin Duets (from the Forty-four)
• Paganini: Sonata for Violin and Guitar
• Magnuson: Toscherzo (violin/viola)
• Jerome Kern: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (arrg. Magnuson/McCutcheon)
• Leclair: Sonata for Two Violas
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee

• Bartok: Ten Violin Duets (from the Forty-four)
• Dvorak/Kreisler: Slavonic Fantasie
• Kreisler: La Gitana
• Magnuson: Introitus: Jubilate Deo (viola duo)
• Vaughan Williams: Suite for Viola
• Martinu: Three Madrigals

• Bartok: Ten MORE Violin Duets (from the Forty-four)
• arr. Ritz: Be Thou Thy Vision
• Mozart: Duo in B-flat Major, K. 424
• Magnuson: Fantasy on Ton-y-botel
• George Duning, arr. Morris: Picnic
• Ervin T. Rouse: Orange Blossom Special

• Bartok: Fifteen Violin Duets (from the Forty-four)
• Mark Francis: Two Dances (1998) (premiere performance)
• Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata in A Major for Two Violas
• Lyn Ritz: Duo (1999) (premiere performance)
• Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia
• Sousa (arr. Magnuson): Stars and Stripes Forever