2008 University Singers
Friday, May 09, 2008
University Singers & Humboldt Chorale
The HSU University Singers present sacred music by Mozart and Stravinsky, and the Humboldt Chorale sends the audience out singing show tunes in their combined concert on Friday May 9 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Harley Muilenburg conducts the University Singers; Carol Ryder conducts the Humboldt Chorale, in an HSU Department of Music Production.
The HSU University Singers present sacred music by Mozart and Stravinsky, and the Humboldt Chorale sends the audience out singing show tunes in their combined concert on Friday May 9 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Harley Muilenburg conducts the University Singers; Carol Ryder conducts the Humboldt Chorale, in an HSU Department of Music Production.
A Concert in Contrasts
The HSU University Singers and the Humboldt Chorale present a contrasting program for their combined spring concert on Friday, May 9 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
The University Singers perform sections of two classic works in the category of sacred music. The Requiem Mass in D Minor (1791) was the last work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Singers present six movements from the Requiem, including the “Tuba mirum,” which contains solos for all four vocal parts. These will be performed by Kaia Renouf (soprano), Veronica Stahl (alto), David Powell (tenor) and Kevin Nakatani (bass.)
The second work is from a very different era: “Symphony of Psalms,” written by Igor Stravinsky in 1930. The University Singers perform the final movement of this three movement piece. Each movement centers on a particular psalm. The third movement expresses Psalm 150, with its theme of praise.
Both of these works were written for orchestra and chorus. In this concert, HSU Music Department staff pianist will play the piano reductions of the orchestral score. “Chernoff’s amazing technical and musical abilities at the keyboard will be featured in both selections,” said Harley Muilenburg, conductor of the University Singers.
In the second half of the concert, the Humboldt Chorale changes the mood with a selection of show tunes, from as far back as Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” (1879) and the first true American musical, Jerome Kern’s “Show Boat” (1927), to songs by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Leonard Bernstein.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein songs are “June Is Busting Out All Over” from the 1945 musical “Carousel,” and the title song of the 1943 musical “Oklahoma.” Leonard Bernstein is represented by “Somewhere” from “West Side Story” (written with Stephen Sondheim), which premiered on Broadway in 1957, and “Make Our Garden Grow” from “Candide” (1956.) The Cole Porter tune is “Anything Goes” from the 1934 musical of the same name.
The Humboldt Chorale, under the direction of Carol Ryder, consists of 70 singers. As it has since its founding a half century ago, the Chorale consists of HSU students and members of local communities. Larry Pitts is the keyboard accompanist.
This combined concert on May 9 begins at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. The concert is produced by the HSU Department of Music.
The HSU University Singers and the Humboldt Chorale present a contrasting program for their combined spring concert on Friday, May 9 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
The University Singers perform sections of two classic works in the category of sacred music. The Requiem Mass in D Minor (1791) was the last work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Singers present six movements from the Requiem, including the “Tuba mirum,” which contains solos for all four vocal parts. These will be performed by Kaia Renouf (soprano), Veronica Stahl (alto), David Powell (tenor) and Kevin Nakatani (bass.)
The second work is from a very different era: “Symphony of Psalms,” written by Igor Stravinsky in 1930. The University Singers perform the final movement of this three movement piece. Each movement centers on a particular psalm. The third movement expresses Psalm 150, with its theme of praise.
Both of these works were written for orchestra and chorus. In this concert, HSU Music Department staff pianist will play the piano reductions of the orchestral score. “Chernoff’s amazing technical and musical abilities at the keyboard will be featured in both selections,” said Harley Muilenburg, conductor of the University Singers.
In the second half of the concert, the Humboldt Chorale changes the mood with a selection of show tunes, from as far back as Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” (1879) and the first true American musical, Jerome Kern’s “Show Boat” (1927), to songs by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Leonard Bernstein.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein songs are “June Is Busting Out All Over” from the 1945 musical “Carousel,” and the title song of the 1943 musical “Oklahoma.” Leonard Bernstein is represented by “Somewhere” from “West Side Story” (written with Stephen Sondheim), which premiered on Broadway in 1957, and “Make Our Garden Grow” from “Candide” (1956.) The Cole Porter tune is “Anything Goes” from the 1934 musical of the same name.
The Humboldt Chorale, under the direction of Carol Ryder, consists of 70 singers. As it has since its founding a half century ago, the Chorale consists of HSU students and members of local communities. Larry Pitts is the keyboard accompanist.
This combined concert on May 9 begins at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. The concert is produced by the HSU Department of Music.
Monday, May 05, 2008
Chamber Music for Strings
Four distinguished local string musicians play Bach, Mozart, Dvorak and more on Monday, May 5 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Produced by HSU Department of Music.
Four distinguished local string musicians play Bach, Mozart, Dvorak and more on Monday, May 5 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Produced by HSU Department of Music.
Adding It Up: Four Players, Four Eras in Four Presentations
Four distinguished local string musicians present a solo, a duet, a trio and finally a quartet in a concert that begins with the Baroque and ends with a 21st century work by one of the participants, on Monday, May 5 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata.
The players are Cindy Moyer, HSU Professor of Violin, Viola and Music Theory (violin); Karen Davy, who teaches strings at HSU and North Coast Preparatory Academy of the Arts (viola); Halim Beere, concertmaster of the Eureka Symphony (violin); and David Davis, principal cellist of the Eureka Symphony (cello.)
Cindy Moyer begins with the Partita #2 in D Minor, a composition for solo violin by the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach. Moyer is joined by Karen Davy on viola for Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola by 20th century composer Bohuslav Martinu. Born in Czechoslovakia, Martinu was exiled to the U.S. during World War II, where he wrote this piece in 1947.
Then violinist Halim Beere joins Moyer and Davy for a work by Antonin Dvorak: Terzetto in C Major for Two Violins and Viola. Another Czech composer who came to America but in the late 19th century, Dvorak is known as an exemplar of the Romantic era. This terzetto (a trio for stringed instruments) was also written in the U.S., in 1887.
Cellist David Davis completes the quartet for two selections. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet #23 in F Major exemplifies the classical era, while a new work brings the concert into the 21st century: Octogon by violinst Halim Beere. Beere is a recent HSU graduate in composition and violin performance. He will begin graduate studies in composition at the University of Illinois in the fall.
Tickets for the May 5 concert are $8 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door.
Media: Eureka Reporter E Magazine May 2-8.
Four distinguished local string musicians present a solo, a duet, a trio and finally a quartet in a concert that begins with the Baroque and ends with a 21st century work by one of the participants, on Monday, May 5 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata.
The players are Cindy Moyer, HSU Professor of Violin, Viola and Music Theory (violin); Karen Davy, who teaches strings at HSU and North Coast Preparatory Academy of the Arts (viola); Halim Beere, concertmaster of the Eureka Symphony (violin); and David Davis, principal cellist of the Eureka Symphony (cello.)
Cindy Moyer begins with the Partita #2 in D Minor, a composition for solo violin by the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach. Moyer is joined by Karen Davy on viola for Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola by 20th century composer Bohuslav Martinu. Born in Czechoslovakia, Martinu was exiled to the U.S. during World War II, where he wrote this piece in 1947.
Then violinist Halim Beere joins Moyer and Davy for a work by Antonin Dvorak: Terzetto in C Major for Two Violins and Viola. Another Czech composer who came to America but in the late 19th century, Dvorak is known as an exemplar of the Romantic era. This terzetto (a trio for stringed instruments) was also written in the U.S., in 1887.
Cellist David Davis completes the quartet for two selections. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet #23 in F Major exemplifies the classical era, while a new work brings the concert into the 21st century: Octogon by violinst Halim Beere. Beere is a recent HSU graduate in composition and violin performance. He will begin graduate studies in composition at the University of Illinois in the fall.
Tickets for the May 5 concert are $8 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door.
Media: Eureka Reporter E Magazine May 2-8.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Madrigal Singers & MRT
HSU Madrigal Singers go polyphonic a cappella, and Mad River Transit sings the blues in their combined spring concert on Sunday, May 4 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Harley Muilenburg directing.
HSU Madrigal Singers go polyphonic a cappella, and Mad River Transit sings the blues in their combined spring concert on Sunday, May 4 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Harley Muilenburg directing.
Madrigal Singers and MRT Vocalize in Spring Concert
The HSU Madrigal Singers perform madrigals and folk songs from several cultures and eras in their spring concert with Mad River Transit, on Sunday May 4 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Both ensembles are directed by HSU professor Harley Muilenburg.
Students Jaclyn Catino and Katherine Kinley sing an a cappella duet, “Beatus Vir” by Renaissance composer, Orlande de Lassus. One of the most famous European composers of the 16th century, Lassus excelled in the Flemish-French polyphonic style.
Kenna Oliphant, Jacqueline Hernandez, Erin Donaldson, and Tiffany Guenter will sing a quartet with text by Shakespeare and music from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
The ensemble of singers will perform works by composers ranging from English Renaissance era Thomas Morley to 19th century American Randall Thompson, and 20th century Anglo-Welsh Peter Warlock.
Then the Mad River Transit singers take over, performing in a variety of jazz, blues and popular styles. Vocalists are accompanied by Darius Brotman on piano, Robert Amirkhan on bass and Mike Munroe on drums.
Jessica Malone, Berol Steinberg, Kyle Blase and Claire Bent join Brotman and Amirkhan on “Blues for Jezebel” by Spokane Jazz Orchestra conductor Dan Keberle.
Melissa Modifer sings “Moon and Sand,” a 1950 ballad by versatile American composer Alex Wilder, whose work was recorded by artists as various as Billie Holiday, Keith Jarrett, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Dorsey, Mabel Mercer, Tony Bennett and the New York Woodwind Quintet. This song was first recorded by the Mitch Miller Orchestra and Chorus, with Alan Dale.
Other solo performers are Rosalie Venza (“Home” by Kerry Marsch), and Joshua Boronkay (“You’re My Thrill” by classic pop composer Sidney Clare with Jay Gorney.)
Among other selections are “Words” by contemporary Swedish composer and singer Anders Edenroth, “Full Moon” by contemporary American composer, arranger and singer Sharon Broadley; “Boblicity” by jazz legend Miles Davis, and “Cookin’ at the Continental,” arranged by Marc Mazur.
Tickets for the combined Madrigal Singers and MRT concert are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Harley Muilenburg directing.
The HSU Madrigal Singers perform madrigals and folk songs from several cultures and eras in their spring concert with Mad River Transit, on Sunday May 4 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Both ensembles are directed by HSU professor Harley Muilenburg.
Students Jaclyn Catino and Katherine Kinley sing an a cappella duet, “Beatus Vir” by Renaissance composer, Orlande de Lassus. One of the most famous European composers of the 16th century, Lassus excelled in the Flemish-French polyphonic style.
Kenna Oliphant, Jacqueline Hernandez, Erin Donaldson, and Tiffany Guenter will sing a quartet with text by Shakespeare and music from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
The ensemble of singers will perform works by composers ranging from English Renaissance era Thomas Morley to 19th century American Randall Thompson, and 20th century Anglo-Welsh Peter Warlock.
Then the Mad River Transit singers take over, performing in a variety of jazz, blues and popular styles. Vocalists are accompanied by Darius Brotman on piano, Robert Amirkhan on bass and Mike Munroe on drums.
Jessica Malone, Berol Steinberg, Kyle Blase and Claire Bent join Brotman and Amirkhan on “Blues for Jezebel” by Spokane Jazz Orchestra conductor Dan Keberle.
Melissa Modifer sings “Moon and Sand,” a 1950 ballad by versatile American composer Alex Wilder, whose work was recorded by artists as various as Billie Holiday, Keith Jarrett, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Dorsey, Mabel Mercer, Tony Bennett and the New York Woodwind Quintet. This song was first recorded by the Mitch Miller Orchestra and Chorus, with Alan Dale.
Other solo performers are Rosalie Venza (“Home” by Kerry Marsch), and Joshua Boronkay (“You’re My Thrill” by classic pop composer Sidney Clare with Jay Gorney.)
Among other selections are “Words” by contemporary Swedish composer and singer Anders Edenroth, “Full Moon” by contemporary American composer, arranger and singer Sharon Broadley; “Boblicity” by jazz legend Miles Davis, and “Cookin’ at the Continental,” arranged by Marc Mazur.
Tickets for the combined Madrigal Singers and MRT concert are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Harley Muilenburg directing.
The Madrigal Singers are: Elaina Caner, Jaclyn Catino, Jacqueline Hernandez, Katherine Kinley, Jemimah Lodes, Kenna Oliphant (Soprano I); Erin Donaldson, Corine Brown, Jessica Bittner, Tiffany Guenter (Soprano II); Jessical Breault, Claire Smith, Amy Kieffer, Dustie Winegar, Michele Sternberg (alto).
The MRT singers are: Laura Bogart, Jessica Malone, Rosalie Venza (soprano); Traci Alvarez, Calista LaBolle (middle); Claire Bent, Melissa Modifer (alto); Jamie Obeso, Bernie Steinberg, Jonathan Walton (tenor); Bryan Osper, Kyle Blase (baritone); Joshua Boronkay, Joseph Morf, Alex Saslow, Nick Tringale (bass.)
The MRT singers are: Laura Bogart, Jessica Malone, Rosalie Venza (soprano); Traci Alvarez, Calista LaBolle (middle); Claire Bent, Melissa Modifer (alto); Jamie Obeso, Bernie Steinberg, Jonathan Walton (tenor); Bryan Osper, Kyle Blase (baritone); Joshua Boronkay, Joseph Morf, Alex Saslow, Nick Tringale (bass.)
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs its first-ever Arcata concert of traditional Balinese gamelan and cutting-edge compositions, on Saturday, May 3 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus. $10 general, $5 students from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Guest Music Director: Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana. An HSU Dept. of Music production.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs its first-ever Arcata concert of traditional Balinese gamelan and cutting-edge compositions, on Saturday, May 3 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus. $10 general, $5 students from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Guest Music Director: Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana. An HSU Dept. of Music production.
Bay Area’s Gamelan Sekar Jaya in First Arcata Concert
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs its first concert ever in Arcata, with pieces ranging from traditional dances to new hybrid forms of the Balinese music called gamelan.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya is the only group outside Bali to receive the Dharma Kusuma, Bali's highest award for artistic achievement. The company is renowned for its exploration of traditional and modern forms through long-term residencies with Bali's finest musicians and dancers. Formed in 1979 in the Bay Area, the orchestra has performed in venues ranging from remote village squares in Bali to LA's Hollywood Bowl.
The twenty musicians play on several sets of Balinese instruments, consisting of various combinations of bronze-keyed metallophones or bamboo marimbas, gongs, drums, flutes, and other instruments.
The Arcata concert will feature the lush bronze sonorities of two Balinese gamelan ensembles -- angklung, and gender wayang -- and the expressive movements of Balinese dance.
The group will be led by one of Bali's most esteemed musicians, I Dewa Ketut Alit Adnayna. He is a founding member of Bali's renowned ensemble Cudamani, which recently completed its third US tour.
The concert will include a refined devotional dance, Puja Santi, with original music by I Dewa Putu Berata; the masked dance Jauk, performed by I Made Moja, the delicate music of gender wayang, and traditional angklung music heard in Balinese temple festivals.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs its first Arcata concert on Saturday, May 3 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus. $10 general, $5 students from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Guest Music Director: Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana. An HSU Dept. of Music production.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs its first concert ever in Arcata, with pieces ranging from traditional dances to new hybrid forms of the Balinese music called gamelan.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya is the only group outside Bali to receive the Dharma Kusuma, Bali's highest award for artistic achievement. The company is renowned for its exploration of traditional and modern forms through long-term residencies with Bali's finest musicians and dancers. Formed in 1979 in the Bay Area, the orchestra has performed in venues ranging from remote village squares in Bali to LA's Hollywood Bowl.
The twenty musicians play on several sets of Balinese instruments, consisting of various combinations of bronze-keyed metallophones or bamboo marimbas, gongs, drums, flutes, and other instruments.
The Arcata concert will feature the lush bronze sonorities of two Balinese gamelan ensembles -- angklung, and gender wayang -- and the expressive movements of Balinese dance.
The group will be led by one of Bali's most esteemed musicians, I Dewa Ketut Alit Adnayna. He is a founding member of Bali's renowned ensemble Cudamani, which recently completed its third US tour.
The concert will include a refined devotional dance, Puja Santi, with original music by I Dewa Putu Berata; the masked dance Jauk, performed by I Made Moja, the delicate music of gender wayang, and traditional angklung music heard in Balinese temple festivals.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs its first Arcata concert on Saturday, May 3 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus. $10 general, $5 students from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Guest Music Director: Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana. An HSU Dept. of Music production.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Humboldt Symphony
The Humboldt Symphony spring concert features works by Gershwin, Telemann and Stravinsky’s “The Firebird Suite” on FRIDAY MAY 2 at 8 PM and SUNDAY MAY 4 at 2 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Paul Cummings conducting.
The Humboldt Symphony spring concert features works by Gershwin, Telemann and Stravinsky’s “The Firebird Suite” on FRIDAY MAY 2 at 8 PM and SUNDAY MAY 4 at 2 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Paul Cummings conducting.
Two Soloists Headline Humboldt Symphony Spring Concert
HSU faculty member Dr. Gil Cline on trumpet and student Emily Loeffler on piano are the soloists for the Humboldt Symphony spring concert on Friday evening, May 2, and Sunday afternoon, May 4, in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata.
Conducted by Paul Cummings, the Humboldt Symphony features works by two 20th century composers known for combining elements of classical and popular music—George Gershwin and Igor Stravinsky.
But first up is the Don Quixote Suite for string orchestra by Georg Philipp Telemann, a Baroque era contemporary of Bach who was among the most prolific composers of all time. This suite musically illustrating the classic Cervantes story was written late in Telemann’s long career.
Then the third movement of George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F features student pianist Emily Loeffler. Written between his best known pieces (“Raphsody in Blue” and “An American in Paris”), this Gershwin concerto has been praised as one of the high points of the modern era’s blending of European classical music with the rhythms and spirit of jazz and American musical theatre.
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, who admired Gershwin and the Piano Concerto in particular, was another proponent of such blending. The Humboldt Symphony plays two sections of his famous Firebird Suite. As a young man, Stravinsky composed a ballet score for the Firebird which he later adapted for orchestra in several versions. It became his breakthrough work and remains one of his most familiar and influential compositions.
Between Gershwin and Stravinsky, the Humboldt Symphony performs the Trumpet Concerto by contemporary American composer Robert J. Bradshaw. HSU professor Dr. Gil Cline is the soloist for this work honoring the citizens of Sarajevo, who rebuilt their city that had been destroyed by civil war shortly after they hosted the 1984 winter Olympics.
The Humboldt Symphony spring concert begins at 8 PM on Friday, May 1, and at 2 PM on Sunday, May 3. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Paul Cummings conducting.
HSU faculty member Dr. Gil Cline on trumpet and student Emily Loeffler on piano are the soloists for the Humboldt Symphony spring concert on Friday evening, May 2, and Sunday afternoon, May 4, in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata.
Conducted by Paul Cummings, the Humboldt Symphony features works by two 20th century composers known for combining elements of classical and popular music—George Gershwin and Igor Stravinsky.
But first up is the Don Quixote Suite for string orchestra by Georg Philipp Telemann, a Baroque era contemporary of Bach who was among the most prolific composers of all time. This suite musically illustrating the classic Cervantes story was written late in Telemann’s long career.
Then the third movement of George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F features student pianist Emily Loeffler. Written between his best known pieces (“Raphsody in Blue” and “An American in Paris”), this Gershwin concerto has been praised as one of the high points of the modern era’s blending of European classical music with the rhythms and spirit of jazz and American musical theatre.
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, who admired Gershwin and the Piano Concerto in particular, was another proponent of such blending. The Humboldt Symphony plays two sections of his famous Firebird Suite. As a young man, Stravinsky composed a ballet score for the Firebird which he later adapted for orchestra in several versions. It became his breakthrough work and remains one of his most familiar and influential compositions.
Between Gershwin and Stravinsky, the Humboldt Symphony performs the Trumpet Concerto by contemporary American composer Robert J. Bradshaw. HSU professor Dr. Gil Cline is the soloist for this work honoring the citizens of Sarajevo, who rebuilt their city that had been destroyed by civil war shortly after they hosted the 1984 winter Olympics.
The Humboldt Symphony spring concert begins at 8 PM on Friday, May 1, and at 2 PM on Sunday, May 3. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Paul Cummings conducting.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
AM Jazz Band
The AM Jazz Band plays Ellington, Mingus, Freddie Hubbard and Tito Puente on Thursday, May 1 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Dan Aldag directing.
The AM Jazz Band plays Ellington, Mingus, Freddie Hubbard and Tito Puente on Thursday, May 1 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Dan Aldag directing.
From the 30s to Now with the AM Jazz Band
The AM Jazz Band plays jazz classics from a broad span of jazz history in their concert on Thursday, May 1 in Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata.
“The oldest tune will be performed with the newest arrangement,” said Dan Aldag, HSU Assistant Professor and director of the student ensemble. It’s Duke Ellington’s early 1930s composition, “In A Sentimental Mood,” as arranged by contemporary composer and jazz musician, Mark Taylor.
“Two of the tunes were written by great bass players,” Aldag noted. They are “Blues in the Closet” by Oscar Pettiford and “Jelly Roll” by Charles Mingus. A compatriot of Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Pettiford played in bands led by Duke Ellington and Woody Herman before leading his own bands and becoming a pioneer of bebop in the 1950s. As a player, bandleader and composer, Mingus was a noted innovator, especially in the 1960s. He often wrote for mid-sized jazz ensembles like the AM Jazz Band, earning the reputation as the heir to Duke Ellington. His tune is a tribute to a jazz pioneer of an earlier age, Jelly Roll Morton.
“Red Clay” was written by trumpet player Freddie Hubbard in the 1970s, and is one of the standards of the jazz fusion era. Though many know the song “Oye Como Va” from the 1970s Santana recording, the Cuban timbalero and band leader, Tito Puente wrote and recorded it in 1963. “The arrangement that the AM Jazz Band plays hews closely to the Latin jazz style of Puente's original recording,” Aldag said.
The program is rounded out by "Bone Talk,"which features the entire trombone section.
Tickets for the AM Jazz Band concert on Thursday, May 1 are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the Fulkerson Recital Hall door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Dan Aldag directing.
The AM Jazz Band plays jazz classics from a broad span of jazz history in their concert on Thursday, May 1 in Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata.
“The oldest tune will be performed with the newest arrangement,” said Dan Aldag, HSU Assistant Professor and director of the student ensemble. It’s Duke Ellington’s early 1930s composition, “In A Sentimental Mood,” as arranged by contemporary composer and jazz musician, Mark Taylor.
“Two of the tunes were written by great bass players,” Aldag noted. They are “Blues in the Closet” by Oscar Pettiford and “Jelly Roll” by Charles Mingus. A compatriot of Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Pettiford played in bands led by Duke Ellington and Woody Herman before leading his own bands and becoming a pioneer of bebop in the 1950s. As a player, bandleader and composer, Mingus was a noted innovator, especially in the 1960s. He often wrote for mid-sized jazz ensembles like the AM Jazz Band, earning the reputation as the heir to Duke Ellington. His tune is a tribute to a jazz pioneer of an earlier age, Jelly Roll Morton.
“Red Clay” was written by trumpet player Freddie Hubbard in the 1970s, and is one of the standards of the jazz fusion era. Though many know the song “Oye Como Va” from the 1970s Santana recording, the Cuban timbalero and band leader, Tito Puente wrote and recorded it in 1963. “The arrangement that the AM Jazz Band plays hews closely to the Latin jazz style of Puente's original recording,” Aldag said.
The program is rounded out by "Bone Talk,"which features the entire trombone section.
Tickets for the AM Jazz Band concert on Thursday, May 1 are $7 general, $3 students and seniors, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the Fulkerson Recital Hall door. HSU students free with ID. Produced by HSU Department of Music, Dan Aldag directing.
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