Sunday, May 04, 2008
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.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Percussion Ensemble & Calypso Band
HSU Percussion Ensemble presents contemporary andexperimental compositions plus music based on traditional styles of Brazil, Africa & the Caribbean, and the Calypso Band features its festive dance rhythms on Saturday, April 26 at 8 PM in the Van Duzer Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Admission $7 general, $3 students and seniors from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928), the Works in Eureka and Arcata, and The Metro in Arcata, or at the door. First 50 HSU students free with ID. Directed by Howard Kaufman and Dr. Eugene Novotney; HSU Music Department production.
HSU Percussion Ensemble presents contemporary andexperimental compositions plus music based on traditional styles of Brazil, Africa & the Caribbean, and the Calypso Band features its festive dance rhythms on Saturday, April 26 at 8 PM in the Van Duzer Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Admission $7 general, $3 students and seniors from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928), the Works in Eureka and Arcata, and The Metro in Arcata, or at the door. First 50 HSU students free with ID. Directed by Howard Kaufman and Dr. Eugene Novotney; HSU Music Department production.
Spring Rhythms with the HSU Percussion Ensemble and Calypso Band
It wouldn’t be an HSU Percussion Ensemble concert without an array of exotic instruments playing complex rhythms from around the world—and this spring is no exception.
The featured work on Saturday evening, April 26 will be “Ketjak” by renowned Japanese composer, Akira Nishimura. Scored for six percussionists playing multiple instruments, this piece is based on the famous Balinese "Monkey Chant," in which 100 men sit in a concentric circle and chant in complex interlocking rhythm.
“This piece captures the deep emotion of the ‘Monkey Chant’ in a dramatic percussive orchestration,” said Dr. Eugene Novotney, director of the Percussion Orchestra. “It pushes the six players to the limits of their technique and musicality.”
The concert includes two of Novotney’s compositions. Both works showcase unusual instruments. “Scratch” is composed for a quartet of Guiros (scrapers), and “SEAR/CHING” for a quartet of hand-made tube-o-phones, producing unusual sounds due in part to their tuning (19-tone rather than 12-tone equal temperment), unfamiliar to western ears.
A suite of traditional Mandeng (West African) drumming, and a Brazilian Samba arranged for authentic indigenous instruments will conclude the Percussion Ensemble’s half of the show.
Then the ever-popular Humboldt State Calypso Band takes over, with the emphasis this year on Panorama compositions: the high-energy dance music of the Caribbean Carnival in Trinidad and Tabago.
“The Band prides itself in maintaining an accurate and authentic connection to the roots of the steel band movement and the innovative musicians of Trinidad, where this music was born,” Dr. Novotney said.
In addition to its regular performances at Humboldt State and throughout Northern California, the band has undertaken tours to San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities in northern and southern California, as well as Eugene, Oregon and Seattle, Washington.
The HSU Percussion Ensemble and the Humboldt State Calypso Band perform on Saturday, April 26 at 8 PM in the Van Duzer Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Admission $7 general, $3 students and seniors from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928), the Works in Eureka and Arcata, and The Metro in Arcata, or at the door. First 50 HSU students free with ID. Directed by Howard Kaufman and Dr. Eugene Novotney; HSU Music Department production.
It wouldn’t be an HSU Percussion Ensemble concert without an array of exotic instruments playing complex rhythms from around the world—and this spring is no exception.
The featured work on Saturday evening, April 26 will be “Ketjak” by renowned Japanese composer, Akira Nishimura. Scored for six percussionists playing multiple instruments, this piece is based on the famous Balinese "Monkey Chant," in which 100 men sit in a concentric circle and chant in complex interlocking rhythm.
“This piece captures the deep emotion of the ‘Monkey Chant’ in a dramatic percussive orchestration,” said Dr. Eugene Novotney, director of the Percussion Orchestra. “It pushes the six players to the limits of their technique and musicality.”
The concert includes two of Novotney’s compositions. Both works showcase unusual instruments. “Scratch” is composed for a quartet of Guiros (scrapers), and “SEAR/CHING” for a quartet of hand-made tube-o-phones, producing unusual sounds due in part to their tuning (19-tone rather than 12-tone equal temperment), unfamiliar to western ears.
A suite of traditional Mandeng (West African) drumming, and a Brazilian Samba arranged for authentic indigenous instruments will conclude the Percussion Ensemble’s half of the show.
Then the ever-popular Humboldt State Calypso Band takes over, with the emphasis this year on Panorama compositions: the high-energy dance music of the Caribbean Carnival in Trinidad and Tabago.
“The Band prides itself in maintaining an accurate and authentic connection to the roots of the steel band movement and the innovative musicians of Trinidad, where this music was born,” Dr. Novotney said.
In addition to its regular performances at Humboldt State and throughout Northern California, the band has undertaken tours to San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities in northern and southern California, as well as Eugene, Oregon and Seattle, Washington.
The HSU Percussion Ensemble and the Humboldt State Calypso Band perform on Saturday, April 26 at 8 PM in the Van Duzer Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Admission $7 general, $3 students and seniors from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928), the Works in Eureka and Arcata, and The Metro in Arcata, or at the door. First 50 HSU students free with ID. Directed by Howard Kaufman and Dr. Eugene Novotney; HSU Music Department production.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Symphonic Band
HSU Symphonic Band plays music from “West Side Story” among other selections in its spring concert on April 25 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. Paul Cummings, conductor; produced by HSU Music Department.
HSU Symphonic Band plays music from “West Side Story” among other selections in its spring concert on April 25 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. Paul Cummings, conductor; produced by HSU Music Department.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Symphonic Band Spring Concert Dances to “West Side Story”
The HSU Symphonic Band, conduced by Paul Cummings, returns from a performance tour for its spring concert on April 25.
The concert gets off to a rousing start with the “Florentiner March” by Julius Fucik, a Czech composer and military band conductor, known in the early 20th century as the “Bohemian Sousa.” His music is still a staple on patriotic occasions in the Czech Republic. (One of his tunes, “Entrance of the Gladiators,” is often heard at the entrance of circus clowns.) “Florentiner March” is considered a showcase for wind ensembles.
The “Suite Francaise” was written by French composer Darius Milhaud towards the end of World War II, especially for American audiences. It has five sections, each named after one of the French provinces-- ” the very ones,” the composer has written, “ in which the American and Allied armies fought together with the French underground for the liberation of my country.”
“I used some folk tunes of these provinces,” Milhaud commented. “I wanted the young American to hear the popular melodies of those parts of France where their fathers and brothers fought to defeat the German invaders.”
“Antithigram” by contemporary American composer and wind ensemble conductor Jack Stamp, will be conducted by student Kearney Vander Sal.
The concert concludes with “Four Dances from ‘West Side Story’” by Leonard Bernstein. Music from the popular Broadway show and Academy Award-winning film is adapted in four sections, including a Mambo, a cha-cha, and a fugue called “Cool.”
The HSU Symphonic Band performs its spring concert on April 25 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. Paul Cummings, conductor; produced by HSU Music Department.
The HSU Symphonic Band, conduced by Paul Cummings, returns from a performance tour for its spring concert on April 25.
The concert gets off to a rousing start with the “Florentiner March” by Julius Fucik, a Czech composer and military band conductor, known in the early 20th century as the “Bohemian Sousa.” His music is still a staple on patriotic occasions in the Czech Republic. (One of his tunes, “Entrance of the Gladiators,” is often heard at the entrance of circus clowns.) “Florentiner March” is considered a showcase for wind ensembles.
The “Suite Francaise” was written by French composer Darius Milhaud towards the end of World War II, especially for American audiences. It has five sections, each named after one of the French provinces-- ” the very ones,” the composer has written, “ in which the American and Allied armies fought together with the French underground for the liberation of my country.”
“I used some folk tunes of these provinces,” Milhaud commented. “I wanted the young American to hear the popular melodies of those parts of France where their fathers and brothers fought to defeat the German invaders.”
“Antithigram” by contemporary American composer and wind ensemble conductor Jack Stamp, will be conducted by student Kearney Vander Sal.
The concert concludes with “Four Dances from ‘West Side Story’” by Leonard Bernstein. Music from the popular Broadway show and Academy Award-winning film is adapted in four sections, including a Mambo, a cha-cha, and a fugue called “Cool.”
The HSU Symphonic Band performs its spring concert on April 25 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. Paul Cummings, conductor; produced by HSU Music Department.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Jazz Weekend: Jazz Combos and Jazz Orchestra
Two jazz quartets and one trio feature an array of styles to begin HSU’s annual jazz weekend, on Friday, April 18. Jazz weekend continues with the HSU Jazz Orchestra in a program with a south-of-the-border flavor, on Saturday, April 19. Both concerts begin at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets for each performance are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. An HSU Music Department production; Dan Aldag, director.
Two jazz quartets and one trio feature an array of styles to begin HSU’s annual jazz weekend, on Friday, April 18. Jazz weekend continues with the HSU Jazz Orchestra in a program with a south-of-the-border flavor, on Saturday, April 19. Both concerts begin at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets for each performance are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. An HSU Music Department production; Dan Aldag, director.
Jazz Weekend at HSU
Three Jazz Combos kick off the spring jazz weekend at the Fulkerson Recital Hall on Friday, April 18.
The fusion-oriented Wednesday Quartet performs “4 Ton Mantis" by Amon Tobin, a Montreal-based DJ and producer, and "3 Deuces" by the electric bassist and producer Marcus Miller.
Brian Jones on alto sax and guitar, Leo Echazábal on tenor sax, Rachel Hrdina on piano, Cullen Miller on bass and Gabriel Ben-Shalom on drums follow these new compositions with contemporary arrangements of two older jazz tunes: John Coltrane's "Lonnie's Lament" and Joe Zawinul's "Scotch and Water".
The Friday Trio has a unique drummerless instrumentation, with Clay Carey on tenor sax, Ali Chaudhary on guitar and Maia Wiitala on bass. They will perform Miles Davis's "So What", "Beatrice" by Sam Rivers and an original composition by Maia Wiitala.The Friday Quartet consists of Sky Miller on tenor sax, Joel Bettencourt on piano, Bobby Amirkhan on bass and Mike Munroe on drums. They will play Wayne Shorter's classic "Footprints, "Question and Answer" by Pat Metheny, and two originals: Amirkhan’s "Goodbye's Not Forever" and Bettencourt’s "Quick Trip, Long Jaunt."
On Saturday, April 19, the Jazz Orchestra takes the Fulkerson Recital Hall stage, in a concert that includes two renowned compositions from Latin America.
The first is “Libertango,” which Assistant Professor of Music and director of the Jazz Orchestra Dan Aldag describes as “probably the most famous piece by the great Argentinian composer and bandoneon playerAstor Piazzolla.” The bandoneon is an instrument related to the concertina and accordion, often associated with Argentine tangos. “Since there's no one in Humboldt County with a bandoneon,” Aldag said,”we're being joined by HSU alum Issa Stemler on accordion, the next best thing.”
Also on the program is the three-movement "Panama Suite" by the Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Perez. “It combines the rhythms of traditional Panamanian music with the harmonies of contemporary jazz,” Aldag said. “This piece requires two extra percussionists (on bongos and conga) andthree vocalists.”
Jazz of a more conventional nature is represented by anew arrangement of a piece from the Miles Davis "Birth Of The Cool" album called "Israel" by John Carisi, and by "Alright, OK, You Win," a number recorded by the great singer, Joe Williams, with the Count Basie Orchestra. HSU Jazz Orchestra saxophonist Brian Jones will perform the vocal.
Performing Toshiko Akiyoshi's "I Ain't Gonna AskNo More," graduating senior Kearney Vander Sal will play the rarely featured bass trombone. Rounding out the evening will be a classic 1930 Duke Ellingtoncomposition, "Old Man Blues" and an improvised arrangement of "Freddie Freeloader" by Miles Davis.
Both the Jazz Combos performance on Friday and the Jazz Orchestra on Saturday will begin at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets for each concert are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Both are free to HSU students with ID.
Three Jazz Combos kick off the spring jazz weekend at the Fulkerson Recital Hall on Friday, April 18.
The fusion-oriented Wednesday Quartet performs “4 Ton Mantis" by Amon Tobin, a Montreal-based DJ and producer, and "3 Deuces" by the electric bassist and producer Marcus Miller.
Brian Jones on alto sax and guitar, Leo Echazábal on tenor sax, Rachel Hrdina on piano, Cullen Miller on bass and Gabriel Ben-Shalom on drums follow these new compositions with contemporary arrangements of two older jazz tunes: John Coltrane's "Lonnie's Lament" and Joe Zawinul's "Scotch and Water".
The Friday Trio has a unique drummerless instrumentation, with Clay Carey on tenor sax, Ali Chaudhary on guitar and Maia Wiitala on bass. They will perform Miles Davis's "So What", "Beatrice" by Sam Rivers and an original composition by Maia Wiitala.The Friday Quartet consists of Sky Miller on tenor sax, Joel Bettencourt on piano, Bobby Amirkhan on bass and Mike Munroe on drums. They will play Wayne Shorter's classic "Footprints, "Question and Answer" by Pat Metheny, and two originals: Amirkhan’s "Goodbye's Not Forever" and Bettencourt’s "Quick Trip, Long Jaunt."
On Saturday, April 19, the Jazz Orchestra takes the Fulkerson Recital Hall stage, in a concert that includes two renowned compositions from Latin America.
The first is “Libertango,” which Assistant Professor of Music and director of the Jazz Orchestra Dan Aldag describes as “probably the most famous piece by the great Argentinian composer and bandoneon playerAstor Piazzolla.” The bandoneon is an instrument related to the concertina and accordion, often associated with Argentine tangos. “Since there's no one in Humboldt County with a bandoneon,” Aldag said,”we're being joined by HSU alum Issa Stemler on accordion, the next best thing.”
Also on the program is the three-movement "Panama Suite" by the Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Perez. “It combines the rhythms of traditional Panamanian music with the harmonies of contemporary jazz,” Aldag said. “This piece requires two extra percussionists (on bongos and conga) andthree vocalists.”
Jazz of a more conventional nature is represented by anew arrangement of a piece from the Miles Davis "Birth Of The Cool" album called "Israel" by John Carisi, and by "Alright, OK, You Win," a number recorded by the great singer, Joe Williams, with the Count Basie Orchestra. HSU Jazz Orchestra saxophonist Brian Jones will perform the vocal.
Performing Toshiko Akiyoshi's "I Ain't Gonna AskNo More," graduating senior Kearney Vander Sal will play the rarely featured bass trombone. Rounding out the evening will be a classic 1930 Duke Ellingtoncomposition, "Old Man Blues" and an improvised arrangement of "Freddie Freeloader" by Miles Davis.
Both the Jazz Combos performance on Friday and the Jazz Orchestra on Saturday will begin at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets for each concert are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Both are free to HSU students with ID.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Ching-Ming Cheng
Pianist Ching-Ming Cheng will play works by Bach, Schumann, Ravel and Scriabin in her first solo recital as an HSU faculty member on Sunday April 13 at 4 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. This Faculty Artists Series concert is produced by the HSU Music department.
Pianist Ching-Ming Cheng will play works by Bach, Schumann, Ravel and Scriabin in her first solo recital as an HSU faculty member on Sunday April 13 at 4 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. This Faculty Artists Series concert is produced by the HSU Music department.
Different, Difficult and Fun to Play: Ching-Ming Cheng’s First Solo Piano Recital at HSU
Ching-Ming Cheng didn’t have a particular theme in mind in choosing music for her first solo piano recital as an HSU Music Department faculty member. But the pieces she chose for her concert on Sunday afternoon, April 13, turn out to have several elements in common: variety, difficulty, and music she loves to play.
She might have begun with a more obvious selection from Johann Sebastian Bach, but she chose the Toccata in E minor. “Because of the variety,” she said. “It starts slow, then goes to a moderate fugue, then an improvisation section, and then a very fast section, which is another fugue. The Toccata has a little of everything.”
Her next selection is “Kreisleriana” by 19th century German composer Robert Schumann, which has a very specific kind of variety. “It contains two opposite characters in one piece, just as some believe he had two different personalities—an impulsive side and a tender side. This is probably one of Schumann’s finest piano compositions.”
She begins the second half of her recital with Sonata No. 2 by the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin, which he wrote at the end of the 19th century.
“This is also called the “Sonata-Fantasy” because the first movement is a kind of fantasy—it has an improvisational feel to it,” she said. “It’s a very beautiful movement. It’s very hard to memorize, actually—it has four different voices going on the whole time. Every time I play it, it’s more and more fun. But the second movement is very straightforward and very fast-- totally opposite to what we hear in the first movement.” Contrast and variety.
The final piece on the program is “Alborada del Gracioso,” a section from a larger work by 20th century Basque-French composer, Maurice Ravel. “This is probably one of the most difficult pieces in the piano repertoire,” she admits. “It doesn’t sound very difficult, but it’s very hard to play. But it’s got a lot of variety, and once you have it down, it’s a pleasure to play.”
Ching-Ming Cheng performed with violinist Cindy Moyer in a concert at HSU this past November, but April 13 will be her first solo performance as an HSU faculty member. She teaches piano, ear-training, accompanying and piano literature.
Originally from Taiwan, she studied piano and earned her masters and her doctorate at the University of Miami. After teaching there and at Barry University in Florida, she came to HSU in 2007.
Ching-Ming Cheng plays works by Bach, Schumann, Ravel and Scriabin on Sunday April 13 at 4 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. This Faculty Artists Series concert is produced by the HSU Music department.
Additional Notes:
“Kreisleriana” by Robert Schumann is an eight movement piece composed for solo piano in 1838, dedicated to Frederic Chopin. The title may refer to the fictional character, Johannes Kreisler, a manic-depressive poet in three books by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Alexander Scriabin wrote ten piano sonatas over a period of 11 years. But Sonata No. 2 alone took him five years to complete.
“Alborada del Gracioso” by Maurice Ravel is one of five sections of the solo piano work, “Miroirs” (or Reflections, meaning the reflections in a mirror.) Each section is dedicated to a specific individual. This section, which translates roughly as the jester’s song, was dedicated to music critic and writer Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi, who wrote the text to Ravel’s composition, “Cinq mélodies populaires grecques.” Ravel later scored this section of “Miroirs” for orchestra.
media: photo and story at Humboldt State Now.
Ching-Ming Cheng didn’t have a particular theme in mind in choosing music for her first solo piano recital as an HSU Music Department faculty member. But the pieces she chose for her concert on Sunday afternoon, April 13, turn out to have several elements in common: variety, difficulty, and music she loves to play.
She might have begun with a more obvious selection from Johann Sebastian Bach, but she chose the Toccata in E minor. “Because of the variety,” she said. “It starts slow, then goes to a moderate fugue, then an improvisation section, and then a very fast section, which is another fugue. The Toccata has a little of everything.”
Her next selection is “Kreisleriana” by 19th century German composer Robert Schumann, which has a very specific kind of variety. “It contains two opposite characters in one piece, just as some believe he had two different personalities—an impulsive side and a tender side. This is probably one of Schumann’s finest piano compositions.”
She begins the second half of her recital with Sonata No. 2 by the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin, which he wrote at the end of the 19th century.
“This is also called the “Sonata-Fantasy” because the first movement is a kind of fantasy—it has an improvisational feel to it,” she said. “It’s a very beautiful movement. It’s very hard to memorize, actually—it has four different voices going on the whole time. Every time I play it, it’s more and more fun. But the second movement is very straightforward and very fast-- totally opposite to what we hear in the first movement.” Contrast and variety.
The final piece on the program is “Alborada del Gracioso,” a section from a larger work by 20th century Basque-French composer, Maurice Ravel. “This is probably one of the most difficult pieces in the piano repertoire,” she admits. “It doesn’t sound very difficult, but it’s very hard to play. But it’s got a lot of variety, and once you have it down, it’s a pleasure to play.”
Ching-Ming Cheng performed with violinist Cindy Moyer in a concert at HSU this past November, but April 13 will be her first solo performance as an HSU faculty member. She teaches piano, ear-training, accompanying and piano literature.
Originally from Taiwan, she studied piano and earned her masters and her doctorate at the University of Miami. After teaching there and at Barry University in Florida, she came to HSU in 2007.
Ching-Ming Cheng plays works by Bach, Schumann, Ravel and Scriabin on Sunday April 13 at 4 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. This Faculty Artists Series concert is produced by the HSU Music department.
Additional Notes:
“Kreisleriana” by Robert Schumann is an eight movement piece composed for solo piano in 1838, dedicated to Frederic Chopin. The title may refer to the fictional character, Johannes Kreisler, a manic-depressive poet in three books by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Alexander Scriabin wrote ten piano sonatas over a period of 11 years. But Sonata No. 2 alone took him five years to complete.
“Alborada del Gracioso” by Maurice Ravel is one of five sections of the solo piano work, “Miroirs” (or Reflections, meaning the reflections in a mirror.) Each section is dedicated to a specific individual. This section, which translates roughly as the jester’s song, was dedicated to music critic and writer Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi, who wrote the text to Ravel’s composition, “Cinq mélodies populaires grecques.” Ravel later scored this section of “Miroirs” for orchestra.
media: photo and story at Humboldt State Now.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Opera Workshop
The HSU Opera Workshop performs scenes from opera and musical theatre in its annual concert on Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. An HSU Music Department production; Elisabeth Harrington, artistic director.
The HSU Opera Workshop performs scenes from opera and musical theatre in its annual concert on Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. An HSU Music Department production; Elisabeth Harrington, artistic director.
Interpretations and Improvisations by the HSU Opera Workshop
The annual spring concert of the HSU Opera Workshop on April 11th and 12th features scenes from both opera and musical theatre.
For example, from the operatic repertoire, students will perform Act I of “La Serva Padrona” by the 18th century Italian composer, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and a scene from “Dialogues of the Carmelites” by 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc.
From musical theatre, they will perform two selections by Stephen Sondheim. Also featured will be three fables from “Fables: Five Very Short Operas” by contemporary American composer Ned Rorem.
But in addition to these interpretations of standard works, there will be some one-of-a-kind moments.
“In true workshop fashion, the students have created three original, semi-improvised ‘opera’ scenes,” said Elisabeth Harrington, HSU Assistant Professor of Voice and the Workshop’s Artistic Director. “Our spontaneous and very intuitive staff accompanist John Chernoff will provide interactive background music for them.”
One of these improvisations as well as the Rorem fables are directed by senior vocal performance major Kirsten Randrup.
The Opera Workshop has 23 students this semester,” Dr. Harrington said. “Mostly voice majors, but a few theatre majors as well as two science majors.” Opera Workshop performances are acted as well as sung.
The HSU Opera Workshop will perform on Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. An HSU Music Department production; Elisabeth Harrington, artistic director.
media: photo with calendar in North Coast Journal and Times-Standard Northern Lights.
The annual spring concert of the HSU Opera Workshop on April 11th and 12th features scenes from both opera and musical theatre.
For example, from the operatic repertoire, students will perform Act I of “La Serva Padrona” by the 18th century Italian composer, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and a scene from “Dialogues of the Carmelites” by 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc.
From musical theatre, they will perform two selections by Stephen Sondheim. Also featured will be three fables from “Fables: Five Very Short Operas” by contemporary American composer Ned Rorem.
But in addition to these interpretations of standard works, there will be some one-of-a-kind moments.
“In true workshop fashion, the students have created three original, semi-improvised ‘opera’ scenes,” said Elisabeth Harrington, HSU Assistant Professor of Voice and the Workshop’s Artistic Director. “Our spontaneous and very intuitive staff accompanist John Chernoff will provide interactive background music for them.”
One of these improvisations as well as the Rorem fables are directed by senior vocal performance major Kirsten Randrup.
The Opera Workshop has 23 students this semester,” Dr. Harrington said. “Mostly voice majors, but a few theatre majors as well as two science majors.” Opera Workshop performances are acted as well as sung.
The HSU Opera Workshop will perform on Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. An HSU Music Department production; Elisabeth Harrington, artistic director.
media: photo with calendar in North Coast Journal and Times-Standard Northern Lights.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Pipe Organ and Brass Concert
HSU’s newly restored baroque-style pipe organ goes into action for a concert also featuring several brass ensembles, on Saturday, April 5 at 8 PM in Armstrong Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 seniors/students, HSU students free with ID, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door.
HSU’s newly restored baroque-style pipe organ goes into action for a concert also featuring several brass ensembles, on Saturday, April 5 at 8 PM in Armstrong Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 seniors/students, HSU students free with ID, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door.
Live Surround Sound as Pipe Organ Meets Brass at HSU
With music played “in the grand Venetian style of San Marco,” HSU professor Gil Cline promises a “sort of ‘surround sound experience’ as a high point of the concert on Saturday, April 5, featuring the newly restored baroque-style pipe organ and several brass ensembles playing a variety of period instruments.
The concert last fall celebrating the dedication of the newly restored Bosch organ at HSU naturally emphasized what the organ itself could do. But the upcoming concert will include “more ensemble playing, a strong suit of the Bosch organ,” Cline said.
In addition to a return by organists Douglas Moorehead and Merry Schellinger (both local members of the American Guild of Organists), student Rebecka Ross will play the organ along with three small brass ensembles organized specifically for this concert. HSU students along with Professor Cline will perform on natural trumpets and other period instruments which Cline simply calls, “a variety of old trombones.” They will also play a rare baroque timpani on loan from the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra of Ashland, Oregon.
The concert begins with “Fanfare du Roi” by Josquin, a Flemish-French Renaissance composer. Published in 1500, it is one of the earliest pieces in print. Other works include 17th century sonatas for the trombone family of alto, tenor, and great bass trombone.
The piece providing the “surround sound experience” will be the “antiphonal, divided choir music” by 16th century Venetian organist and composer Giuseppe Guami, and Giovanni Gabrieli, a composer and organist of the Venetian School during the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period.
Concluding the concert is the “Three Dot Fanfare” written for the 2002 San Francisco Herb Caen Days and premiered at Grace Cathedral. “Concert-goers will hear tones and instruments seldom heard in Humboldt County,” Cline promises, “or anywhere else, for that matter.”
Brass players in the ensembles include Frederick Belanger, Tristan Kadish, Perry Crook, Ari Davie, Kyle Kaufman, and Eric Oiler, trumpets; Bodie Pfost, Talon Nansel, Leah Jmaeff, and Toshi Noguchi, trombones and sackbuts. The large ensemble also includes bassist Bobby Amirkhan and percussionist Brett Huska.
The concert begins at 8 PM on Saturday, April 5 on the HSU campus in Arcata. Unlike most concerts at HSU, which are held in the Fulkerson Recital Hall or the Van Duzer Theatre, the pipe organ and brass concert will be performed in Armstrong Hall (Room 131 of the music building)—because that’s where the Bosch pipe organ lives. Seating is limited, so purchasing tickets early through the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) is recommended.
With music played “in the grand Venetian style of San Marco,” HSU professor Gil Cline promises a “sort of ‘surround sound experience’ as a high point of the concert on Saturday, April 5, featuring the newly restored baroque-style pipe organ and several brass ensembles playing a variety of period instruments.
The concert last fall celebrating the dedication of the newly restored Bosch organ at HSU naturally emphasized what the organ itself could do. But the upcoming concert will include “more ensemble playing, a strong suit of the Bosch organ,” Cline said.
In addition to a return by organists Douglas Moorehead and Merry Schellinger (both local members of the American Guild of Organists), student Rebecka Ross will play the organ along with three small brass ensembles organized specifically for this concert. HSU students along with Professor Cline will perform on natural trumpets and other period instruments which Cline simply calls, “a variety of old trombones.” They will also play a rare baroque timpani on loan from the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra of Ashland, Oregon.
The concert begins with “Fanfare du Roi” by Josquin, a Flemish-French Renaissance composer. Published in 1500, it is one of the earliest pieces in print. Other works include 17th century sonatas for the trombone family of alto, tenor, and great bass trombone.
The piece providing the “surround sound experience” will be the “antiphonal, divided choir music” by 16th century Venetian organist and composer Giuseppe Guami, and Giovanni Gabrieli, a composer and organist of the Venetian School during the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period.
Concluding the concert is the “Three Dot Fanfare” written for the 2002 San Francisco Herb Caen Days and premiered at Grace Cathedral. “Concert-goers will hear tones and instruments seldom heard in Humboldt County,” Cline promises, “or anywhere else, for that matter.”
Brass players in the ensembles include Frederick Belanger, Tristan Kadish, Perry Crook, Ari Davie, Kyle Kaufman, and Eric Oiler, trumpets; Bodie Pfost, Talon Nansel, Leah Jmaeff, and Toshi Noguchi, trombones and sackbuts. The large ensemble also includes bassist Bobby Amirkhan and percussionist Brett Huska.
The concert begins at 8 PM on Saturday, April 5 on the HSU campus in Arcata. Unlike most concerts at HSU, which are held in the Fulkerson Recital Hall or the Van Duzer Theatre, the pipe organ and brass concert will be performed in Armstrong Hall (Room 131 of the music building)—because that’s where the Bosch pipe organ lives. Seating is limited, so purchasing tickets early through the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) is recommended.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
PianoVoce
The community ensemble PianoVoce presents “Friendship,” a recital of music composed for friends by Brahms, Bernstein, Menotti and others, played by friends, including Virginia Ryder on clarinet, on Saturday, March 29 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets $8 general, $3 student/seniors from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. An HSU Department of Music production.
The community ensemble PianoVoce presents “Friendship,” a recital of music composed for friends by Brahms, Bernstein, Menotti and others, played by friends, including Virginia Ryder on clarinet, on Saturday, March 29 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets $8 general, $3 student/seniors from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. An HSU Department of Music production.
PianoVoce Presents Music For Friends, By Friends
Friendship is the theme when the community ensemble PianoVoce performs selections from Brahms, Bernstein, Menotti and others, on Saturday, March 29 at the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
The featured work is “Variation on a Theme by Schumann “ by Johannes Brahms. Brahms’ tribute to his close friend Schumann is a piano 4-hand performed by friends Nancy Correll and Annette Gurnee Hull.
“This was one of the most famous musical friendships, between Brahms and the Schumann family,” said Nancy Correll. “The two composers nurtured each others’ music, and their relationship extended to their families. This piece is especially poignant, since it was written so soon after Schumann’s death.”
“Whether or not there was ever a romance between Clara Schumann and Brahms,” Correll commented, “it was a lifelong relationship of deep mutual respect and love.”
The work “is based on a mysterious set of piano solo variations begun by Schumann, but not published until 1939,” Correll said. “ We will have more to say about these variations during the recital.”
PianoVoce will play several other pieces by Brahms, including a late sonata for clarinet and piano, which features Virginia Ryder on clarinet. “She has been a good friend for years, and we are honored to have her musical magnetism for this recital,” Correll said.
Also on the program: John Corigliano’s rollicking “Gazebo Dances” (each of which is dedicated to at least one friend or family member), Leonard Bernstein’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (dedicated to a friend), also featuring Virginia Ryder, and Gian-Carlo Menotti’s “Six Songs,” which deals with love in all its aspects, including friendship.
In addition to pianists Nancy Correll and Annette Gurnee Hull, PianoVoce includes tenor Kevin Sharkey (who has sung with the group for the last two years) and narrator Richard Duning, who explains the background of the pieces and reads translations of the songs.
PianoVoce was formed in 2003 to explore music originally written for piano 4-hands and piano vocal literature, but “is not averse to other musical instruments - the clarinet for example!”
“Friendship” begins at 8 PM on Saturday, March 29 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 student/seniors from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door.
Friendship is the theme when the community ensemble PianoVoce performs selections from Brahms, Bernstein, Menotti and others, on Saturday, March 29 at the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
The featured work is “Variation on a Theme by Schumann “ by Johannes Brahms. Brahms’ tribute to his close friend Schumann is a piano 4-hand performed by friends Nancy Correll and Annette Gurnee Hull.
“This was one of the most famous musical friendships, between Brahms and the Schumann family,” said Nancy Correll. “The two composers nurtured each others’ music, and their relationship extended to their families. This piece is especially poignant, since it was written so soon after Schumann’s death.”
“Whether or not there was ever a romance between Clara Schumann and Brahms,” Correll commented, “it was a lifelong relationship of deep mutual respect and love.”
The work “is based on a mysterious set of piano solo variations begun by Schumann, but not published until 1939,” Correll said. “ We will have more to say about these variations during the recital.”
PianoVoce will play several other pieces by Brahms, including a late sonata for clarinet and piano, which features Virginia Ryder on clarinet. “She has been a good friend for years, and we are honored to have her musical magnetism for this recital,” Correll said.
Also on the program: John Corigliano’s rollicking “Gazebo Dances” (each of which is dedicated to at least one friend or family member), Leonard Bernstein’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (dedicated to a friend), also featuring Virginia Ryder, and Gian-Carlo Menotti’s “Six Songs,” which deals with love in all its aspects, including friendship.
In addition to pianists Nancy Correll and Annette Gurnee Hull, PianoVoce includes tenor Kevin Sharkey (who has sung with the group for the last two years) and narrator Richard Duning, who explains the background of the pieces and reads translations of the songs.
PianoVoce was formed in 2003 to explore music originally written for piano 4-hands and piano vocal literature, but “is not averse to other musical instruments - the clarinet for example!”
“Friendship” begins at 8 PM on Saturday, March 29 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 student/seniors from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door.
PianoVoce: Bio
PianoVoce was formed in 2003 to explore music originally written for piano 4-hands and piano vocal literature, but is not averse to other musical instruments - the clarinet for example!
Virginia Ryder is a lecturer in the music department at Humboldt State University. She teaches studio and class woodwinds, Music Fundamentals and World Music. Ms. Ryder has performed extensively throughout the United States in orchestras including the Boston Symphony, Denver Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and the Opera Company of Boston. She is a current member of the Symphony of the Redwoods in Mendocino County and the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra. In her free time she enjoys watercolor painting.
Kevin Sharkey is a singer, dancer, actor, costume designer, and graphic designer. He studied Art History at San Diego State University where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied music at HSU with voice teacher Jim Stanard and has had additional voice coaching from Sheila Marks. It is through his partership with pianist and vocal coach Nancy Correll, though, that Kevin has begun to discover his true potential as a singer. Last summer, Kevin sang the role of the ship’s architect in HLOC’s production of Titanic. He owns Threadbare Dancewear in Arcata, CA.
Annette Gurnée Hull earned her B.A. in Music from HSU where her piano teacher was Charles Fulkerson. She has accompanied Humboldt Light Opera Company productions since 1983, the women’s chorus “The Babes,” is retired from the accompanying staff at HSU, has been a private piano teacher for 25 years, and plays regularly for services at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. She studied violin with Floyd Glende and played in the FaDa's string quartet.
Nancy Correll served as staff accompanist for the Music Department at HSU from 1975 to 2001. She comes from Ohio and holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and a B.A. In Music from HSU, where she studied with Charles Fulkerson. Now retired, she continues to teach piano and voice in McKinleyville, makes beautiful pottery, writes novels, and lives with her husband, Richard Duning.
Richard Duning, our narrator, has had many years of amateur theater experience in the role of actor, singer, and director. Richard’s primary focus is in the visual arts, and he describes his work as “symbolic expressionism.” He works from dreams, exploring psychological and spiritual images. He is currently represented by Claudia Chapline Gallery in Stinson Beach and Solomon Dubnick Gallery in Sacramento. His work can be seen at Cin Cin all’Italiana Restaurant in Eureka.
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PianoVoce was formed in 2003 to explore music originally written for piano 4-hands and piano vocal literature, but is not averse to other musical instruments - the clarinet for example!
Virginia Ryder is a lecturer in the music department at Humboldt State University. She teaches studio and class woodwinds, Music Fundamentals and World Music. Ms. Ryder has performed extensively throughout the United States in orchestras including the Boston Symphony, Denver Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and the Opera Company of Boston. She is a current member of the Symphony of the Redwoods in Mendocino County and the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra. In her free time she enjoys watercolor painting.
Kevin Sharkey is a singer, dancer, actor, costume designer, and graphic designer. He studied Art History at San Diego State University where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied music at HSU with voice teacher Jim Stanard and has had additional voice coaching from Sheila Marks. It is through his partership with pianist and vocal coach Nancy Correll, though, that Kevin has begun to discover his true potential as a singer. Last summer, Kevin sang the role of the ship’s architect in HLOC’s production of Titanic. He owns Threadbare Dancewear in Arcata, CA.
Annette Gurnée Hull earned her B.A. in Music from HSU where her piano teacher was Charles Fulkerson. She has accompanied Humboldt Light Opera Company productions since 1983, the women’s chorus “The Babes,” is retired from the accompanying staff at HSU, has been a private piano teacher for 25 years, and plays regularly for services at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. She studied violin with Floyd Glende and played in the FaDa's string quartet.
Nancy Correll served as staff accompanist for the Music Department at HSU from 1975 to 2001. She comes from Ohio and holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and a B.A. In Music from HSU, where she studied with Charles Fulkerson. Now retired, she continues to teach piano and voice in McKinleyville, makes beautiful pottery, writes novels, and lives with her husband, Richard Duning.
Richard Duning, our narrator, has had many years of amateur theater experience in the role of actor, singer, and director. Richard’s primary focus is in the visual arts, and he describes his work as “symbolic expressionism.” He works from dreams, exploring psychological and spiritual images. He is currently represented by Claudia Chapline Gallery in Stinson Beach and Solomon Dubnick Gallery in Sacramento. His work can be seen at Cin Cin all’Italiana Restaurant in Eureka.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Allison & Brotman
Local jazz musicians Darius Brotman (piano) and Bill Allison (vocals) perform improvisations on jazz standards in a rare appearance on Friday, March 14 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets: $8 general, $3 student/seniors from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. This Guest Artist concert is presented by the HSU Department of Music.
Local jazz musicians Darius Brotman (piano) and Bill Allison (vocals) perform improvisations on jazz standards in a rare appearance on Friday, March 14 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets: $8 general, $3 student/seniors from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. This Guest Artist concert is presented by the HSU Department of Music.
So Rare: Local Jazz Artists Brotman and Allison Perform
Local jazz musicians Darius Brotman and Bill Allison will make a rare appearance performing improvisations of jazz standards, on Friday, March 14 at the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Host of the “Gone Sides” jazz show on KHSU, Darius Brotman has been playing jazz piano in local clubs for some 20 years. With a degree in music composition from the University of California at Berkeley, Brotman’s extended jazz suite, “The Rambler,” was performed at HSU.
He returns to the Fulkerson Recital Hall stage with vocalist Bill Allison in a program of improvisations on jazz standards that he prefers not to announce in advance.
Bill Allison is familiar to North Coast generations as a teacher as well as performer. He currently teaches at the HSU Music Academy, College of the Redwoods, and in many Humboldt County schools. Allison has a BA degree in vocal jazz from Cornish College of the Arts, and a Master of Arts in Education from HSU.
Brotman and Allison perform on Friday, March 14 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 student/seniors from the HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. This Guest Artist concert is presented by the HSU Department of Music.
Local jazz musicians Darius Brotman and Bill Allison will make a rare appearance performing improvisations of jazz standards, on Friday, March 14 at the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Host of the “Gone Sides” jazz show on KHSU, Darius Brotman has been playing jazz piano in local clubs for some 20 years. With a degree in music composition from the University of California at Berkeley, Brotman’s extended jazz suite, “The Rambler,” was performed at HSU.
He returns to the Fulkerson Recital Hall stage with vocalist Bill Allison in a program of improvisations on jazz standards that he prefers not to announce in advance.
Bill Allison is familiar to North Coast generations as a teacher as well as performer. He currently teaches at the HSU Music Academy, College of the Redwoods, and in many Humboldt County schools. Allison has a BA degree in vocal jazz from Cornish College of the Arts, and a Master of Arts in Education from HSU.
Brotman and Allison perform on Friday, March 14 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $8 general, $3 student/seniors from the HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. This Guest Artist concert is presented by the HSU Department of Music.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Gamelan X Comes to HSU
Bay Area world music ensemble Gamelan X brings its high energy world music to Humboldt State University on Saturday, March 8.
HSU Music Department Director of Percussion Studies Eugene Novotney calls them “an outstanding group that mixes world music from Asia, Africa and the Middle East into exciting interlocking rhythms, haunting melodies and a deep and funky groove. Gamelan X is the perfect show for a Humboldt audience.”
According to the group’s web site (http://gamelanx.com/) Gamelan X draws musical inspiration from Indonesian, Balkan, African, Indian and American traditions. Instruments used include dozens of small and large gongs (central to the gamelan tradition of Indonesia), plus wind and string instruments, synthesizers, drums and percussion. Their shows include group choreography and crowd interaction to take audiences “on a journey through a wide range of exotic musical spaces.”
Gamelan X comes to HSU at the tail-end of a Northwest and Northern CA tour, trailing clouds of a glorious press. Todd LaVoie in the SF Bay Guardian describes their music as “trance-inducing rhythms pinballing between Balinese gongs…This formidable primitive-futurist improvisational collective of epic proportions bashes out Indonesian marching music made for dance clubs yet to be conceived.”
“Gamelan X is a precision-guided tour de force of rhythm, sounds, theater and performance art,” said Evan Levy, Director of Art in Freedom Park in Atlanta, Georgia. “Think Cirque du Soleil meets Sun Ra, and you won’t want to miss them.”
“Gamelan X literally stopped the show,” said the director of the 2005 Arts Expo Gala in San Francisco. “Our guests were mesmerized by the pageantry, energy and authentic ritual. It was like nothing they’d seen before.”
“The Gamelan X show is the first step in an effort to bring the music of Asia, and specifically Indonesia, to the Humboldt stage,” Novotney said. “I would love to start a Gamelan program here at HSU some day.” Novotney used about half the prize money from his 2006 CSU Wang Award to purchase gamelan instruments from Indonesia.
Gamelan X performs on Saturday, March 8 at 8 PM. in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets $8 general, $3 student/senior from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. This concert is co-sponsored by the HSU Department of Music, the HSU Diversity Program Funding Committee, the HSU Percussion Ensemble and Gamelan Sekar Sequoia.
Media: Arcata Eye, North Coast Journal, Eureka Times-Standard Northern Lights, HSU Online, Humboldt Beacon.
Bay Area world music ensemble Gamelan X brings its high energy world music to Humboldt State University on Saturday, March 8.
HSU Music Department Director of Percussion Studies Eugene Novotney calls them “an outstanding group that mixes world music from Asia, Africa and the Middle East into exciting interlocking rhythms, haunting melodies and a deep and funky groove. Gamelan X is the perfect show for a Humboldt audience.”
According to the group’s web site (http://gamelanx.com/) Gamelan X draws musical inspiration from Indonesian, Balkan, African, Indian and American traditions. Instruments used include dozens of small and large gongs (central to the gamelan tradition of Indonesia), plus wind and string instruments, synthesizers, drums and percussion. Their shows include group choreography and crowd interaction to take audiences “on a journey through a wide range of exotic musical spaces.”
Gamelan X comes to HSU at the tail-end of a Northwest and Northern CA tour, trailing clouds of a glorious press. Todd LaVoie in the SF Bay Guardian describes their music as “trance-inducing rhythms pinballing between Balinese gongs…This formidable primitive-futurist improvisational collective of epic proportions bashes out Indonesian marching music made for dance clubs yet to be conceived.”
“Gamelan X is a precision-guided tour de force of rhythm, sounds, theater and performance art,” said Evan Levy, Director of Art in Freedom Park in Atlanta, Georgia. “Think Cirque du Soleil meets Sun Ra, and you won’t want to miss them.”
“Gamelan X literally stopped the show,” said the director of the 2005 Arts Expo Gala in San Francisco. “Our guests were mesmerized by the pageantry, energy and authentic ritual. It was like nothing they’d seen before.”
“The Gamelan X show is the first step in an effort to bring the music of Asia, and specifically Indonesia, to the Humboldt stage,” Novotney said. “I would love to start a Gamelan program here at HSU some day.” Novotney used about half the prize money from his 2006 CSU Wang Award to purchase gamelan instruments from Indonesia.
Gamelan X performs on Saturday, March 8 at 8 PM. in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets $8 general, $3 student/senior from HSU ticket office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free with ID. This concert is co-sponsored by the HSU Department of Music, the HSU Diversity Program Funding Committee, the HSU Percussion Ensemble and Gamelan Sekar Sequoia.
Media: Arcata Eye, North Coast Journal, Eureka Times-Standard Northern Lights, HSU Online, Humboldt Beacon.
What's Gamelan?
Information edited from Wikipedia:
A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set of instruments is a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together — instruments from different gamelan are not interchangeable. The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel", meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix "an", which makes the root a collective noun.
Gamelan is found in the Indonesian islands of Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok (and other Sunda Islands), in a wide variety of ensemble sizes and formations. In Bali and Lombok today, and in Java through the 18th century, the term "gong" has been preferred to or synonymous with gamelan. Traditions of gamelan-like ensembles also exist in the Philippines, Malaysia and Suriname, sometimes due to emigration, historic trade, or diplomacy. More recently, through immigration and local enthusiasm, gamelan ensembles have become active throughout Europe, America, Asia, and Australia.
Gamelan music is built up in layers. At its centre is a basic melody (core melody) known as the balungan. Further layers, including singing in vocal pieces, elaborate upon this melody in certain ways, but the notes of each layer of music relate to the balungan, and generally coincide at the ends of phrases (called seleh in Javanese). There are also a set of instruments which delineate a colotomic structure, usually ending in the stroke of the largest gong.
The gamelan has an old and mysterious origin. Apparently it predates the Hindu-Buddhist culture that dominated Indonesia in its earliest records, and instead represents a native art form. The instruments developed into their current form during the Majapahit Empire.[1] In contrast to the heavy Indian influence in other art forms, the only obvious Indian influence in gamelan music is in the Javanese style of singing.[2]
In Javanese mythology, the gamelan was created by Sang Hyang Guru in Saka era 167 (c. AD 230), the god who ruled as king of all Java from a palace on the Maendra mountains in Medangkamulan (now Mount Lawu). He needed a signal to summon the gods, and thus invented the gong. For more complex messages, he invented two other Gongs, thus forming the original gamelan set.[3]
In the palaces of Java are the oldest known ensembles, the Munggang and Kodokngorek gamelans, apparently from the 12th century. These formed the basis of a "loud style."
A different, "soft style" developed out of the kemanak tradition and is related to the traditions of singing Javanese poetry, in a manner which is often believed to be similar to performance of modern bedhaya dance. In the 17th century, these loud and soft styles mixed, and to a large extent the variety of modern gamelan styles of Bali, Java, and Sunda resulted from different ways of mixing these elements. Thus, despite the seeming diversity of styles, many of the same theoretical concepts, instruments, and techniques are shared between the styles.[4]
Information edited from Wikipedia:
A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set of instruments is a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together — instruments from different gamelan are not interchangeable. The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel", meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix "an", which makes the root a collective noun.
Gamelan is found in the Indonesian islands of Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok (and other Sunda Islands), in a wide variety of ensemble sizes and formations. In Bali and Lombok today, and in Java through the 18th century, the term "gong" has been preferred to or synonymous with gamelan. Traditions of gamelan-like ensembles also exist in the Philippines, Malaysia and Suriname, sometimes due to emigration, historic trade, or diplomacy. More recently, through immigration and local enthusiasm, gamelan ensembles have become active throughout Europe, America, Asia, and Australia.
Gamelan music is built up in layers. At its centre is a basic melody (core melody) known as the balungan. Further layers, including singing in vocal pieces, elaborate upon this melody in certain ways, but the notes of each layer of music relate to the balungan, and generally coincide at the ends of phrases (called seleh in Javanese). There are also a set of instruments which delineate a colotomic structure, usually ending in the stroke of the largest gong.
The gamelan has an old and mysterious origin. Apparently it predates the Hindu-Buddhist culture that dominated Indonesia in its earliest records, and instead represents a native art form. The instruments developed into their current form during the Majapahit Empire.[1] In contrast to the heavy Indian influence in other art forms, the only obvious Indian influence in gamelan music is in the Javanese style of singing.[2]
In Javanese mythology, the gamelan was created by Sang Hyang Guru in Saka era 167 (c. AD 230), the god who ruled as king of all Java from a palace on the Maendra mountains in Medangkamulan (now Mount Lawu). He needed a signal to summon the gods, and thus invented the gong. For more complex messages, he invented two other Gongs, thus forming the original gamelan set.[3]
In the palaces of Java are the oldest known ensembles, the Munggang and Kodokngorek gamelans, apparently from the 12th century. These formed the basis of a "loud style."
A different, "soft style" developed out of the kemanak tradition and is related to the traditions of singing Javanese poetry, in a manner which is often believed to be similar to performance of modern bedhaya dance. In the 17th century, these loud and soft styles mixed, and to a large extent the variety of modern gamelan styles of Bali, Java, and Sunda resulted from different ways of mixing these elements. Thus, despite the seeming diversity of styles, many of the same theoretical concepts, instruments, and techniques are shared between the styles.[4]
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Humboldt Symphony
The Humboldt Symphony plays selections from Rimsky-Korsakov, Aaron Copland, Scarlatti and Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre” on Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. Paul Cummings conducting; an HSU Music Department production.
The Humboldt Symphony plays selections from Rimsky-Korsakov, Aaron Copland, Scarlatti and Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre” on Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID. Paul Cummings conducting; an HSU Music Department production.
Stirring Melodies and Fiddling to Raise the Dead
With Paul Cummings conducting, the Humboldt Symphony features composers from the Baroque to the modern era, plus selections with an eastern European flavor, in its concert on Saturday March 1 and Sunday March 2 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Probably best known for his operas, Alessandro Scarlatti also composed twelve three-movement symphonies in the Baroque style. The Humboldt Symphony showcases one of these, “Sinfonie V,” with flute solos by Kelsey Sluss and Kearney Vander Sal.
Earlier in the evening, the Symphony plays one of the last works by famed American composer, Aaron Copland: “Down A Country Lane,” which he wrote in 1962.
The Eastern European emphasis enters with two stirring works based on folk music: “Overture on Russian Themes” by Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (which includes a melody sharp- eared listeners may recognize as one also used in Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture”) and the energetic “Rumanian Dances” by Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok.
Ending the evening is “Danse Macabre” by French composer Camille Saint-Saens. It was inspired by a folk tale that portrayed the figure of Death playing a fiddle that caused the dead to arise and dance. The music evokes this themes so well that it’s been used in various horror films and TV shows, including an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” For the Symphony concert, the “fiddle” is played by violin soloist Otis Harriel.
The Humboldt Symphony with Paul Cummings conducting, performs on Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
With Paul Cummings conducting, the Humboldt Symphony features composers from the Baroque to the modern era, plus selections with an eastern European flavor, in its concert on Saturday March 1 and Sunday March 2 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall.
Probably best known for his operas, Alessandro Scarlatti also composed twelve three-movement symphonies in the Baroque style. The Humboldt Symphony showcases one of these, “Sinfonie V,” with flute solos by Kelsey Sluss and Kearney Vander Sal.
Earlier in the evening, the Symphony plays one of the last works by famed American composer, Aaron Copland: “Down A Country Lane,” which he wrote in 1962.
The Eastern European emphasis enters with two stirring works based on folk music: “Overture on Russian Themes” by Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (which includes a melody sharp- eared listeners may recognize as one also used in Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture”) and the energetic “Rumanian Dances” by Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok.
Ending the evening is “Danse Macabre” by French composer Camille Saint-Saens. It was inspired by a folk tale that portrayed the figure of Death playing a fiddle that caused the dead to arise and dance. The music evokes this themes so well that it’s been used in various horror films and TV shows, including an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” For the Symphony concert, the “fiddle” is played by violin soloist Otis Harriel.
The Humboldt Symphony with Paul Cummings conducting, performs on Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Composers Concert
Singer Joanne Rand, pursuing a music degree at HSU, will perform two of her compositions, and HSU students and faculty will perform works by three other student composers in the annual Composers Concert on Friday, February 29 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
Singer Joanne Rand, pursuing a music degree at HSU, will perform two of her compositions, and HSU students and faculty will perform works by three other student composers in the annual Composers Concert on Friday, February 29 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
Joanne Rand Among Student Composers in HSU Concert
Joanne Rand is well known as a singer-songwriter and recording artist, especially in California and the Pacific Northwest. What is less well known is that she is currently pursuing a degree in the Music Department at Humboldt State University.
As a student in the composition program, Joanne Rand will perform two of the songs she’s written as part of the annual Composers Concert at HSU on Friday, February 29.
HSU faculty and students will also perform compositions by three other HSU students.
Pianist and faculty member Ching Ming Cheng will play a sonata by Dustin Littlefield, a student ensemble will perform a chamber work by Joe Morf called “Trail to the Top,” and a chamber group will play a work for brass quintet by Mark Jensen.
Joanne Rand will sing and play guitar on her song, “Into the Wild.” She will be joined by vocalists Melody Walker and Lorenza Simmons for “Broken Open,” an arrangement of songs written as prayers.
“This concert promises to provide a unique and eclectic blend of compositional styles and instrumentation,” said J. Brian Post, HSU Music professor who teaches composition. “These works contain influences from African rhythms and American folk music, as well as from European art music from Mozart’s time to the present.”
The Composers Concert begins at 8 PM on Friday, February 29 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7, $3 seniors and non-HSU students, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
Additional information on Joanne Rand can be found at Joanne Rand.com.
Media: Humboldt State Now.
Joanne Rand is well known as a singer-songwriter and recording artist, especially in California and the Pacific Northwest. What is less well known is that she is currently pursuing a degree in the Music Department at Humboldt State University.
As a student in the composition program, Joanne Rand will perform two of the songs she’s written as part of the annual Composers Concert at HSU on Friday, February 29.
HSU faculty and students will also perform compositions by three other HSU students.
Pianist and faculty member Ching Ming Cheng will play a sonata by Dustin Littlefield, a student ensemble will perform a chamber work by Joe Morf called “Trail to the Top,” and a chamber group will play a work for brass quintet by Mark Jensen.
Joanne Rand will sing and play guitar on her song, “Into the Wild.” She will be joined by vocalists Melody Walker and Lorenza Simmons for “Broken Open,” an arrangement of songs written as prayers.
“This concert promises to provide a unique and eclectic blend of compositional styles and instrumentation,” said J. Brian Post, HSU Music professor who teaches composition. “These works contain influences from African rhythms and American folk music, as well as from European art music from Mozart’s time to the present.”
The Composers Concert begins at 8 PM on Friday, February 29 in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7, $3 seniors and non-HSU students, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
Additional information on Joanne Rand can be found at Joanne Rand.com.
Media: Humboldt State Now.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Symphonic Band & Jazz Orchestra
HSU SYMPHONIC BAND performs Gilmore's Five Folk Songs with soprano Elisabeth Harrington, and the HSU JAZZ ORCHESTRA plays Benny Carter’s Kansas City Suite, on Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
HSU SYMPHONIC BAND performs Gilmore's Five Folk Songs with soprano Elisabeth Harrington, and the HSU JAZZ ORCHESTRA plays Benny Carter’s Kansas City Suite, on Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students/seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. Free to HSU students with ID.
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