Lindenwood University Percussion Ensemble 11/30/2023

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The Wizard of Oz made famous by Judy Garland Over The Rainbow and um a few years ago it was um adapted for solom Marimba in fact if you came to our percussion Ensemble concert I think last year um Matthew played it as a marba solo at the time and then we got our hands on the um percussion Ensemble Arrangement that came out shortly thereafter um yeah and so we thought we'd play it again with the the full group it's really neat how it how we kind of just adds so much more um Ambiance from another marimba and two vibron and some extended techniques with Vib um bows so without further Ado here is Over the Rainbow [Music] [Music] in [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] we have a couple additions to the program tonight um we decided to feature a couple soloists as well uh so we're we're getting to set for the next piece um we are yeah I want to introduce Jimmy nicewander who's going to perform a morba solo called titled Barcelona after the Spanish City in Spain um this is one of a standards in our repertoire and um you know as students in the uh College of Arts and Humanities here with music um they're able to take you know Ensemble chamber music large Ensemble and also private lessons so Jimmy's been working in percussion lessons um the semester and been working on some formal technique and so um yeah we're excited to to feature this formal at marima solo as soon as we get set so this is Jimmy nicewander in Barcelona for [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] next up is a beauti beautiful Mara quartet from Silent Night by France guber adapted for Mora quartet by Nathan doy um if you all joined us for our holiday concert two days ago you saw this Group performing in our Lindenwood theater right next door um and it was it's just been so much fun putting this together uh we've had a week of very busy con or busy week of concerts um this week and encourage you all to keep looking out um on our box office schedule for next semester we generally have concerts like this whole week at the end of the semester with Wind Ensemble choirs Jazz Combos and percussion Ensemble of course as you all know and um this year we did a really special collaborative concert with six of our ensembles on Tuesday was and that was the holiday concert and hoping we'll continue that as a tradition it was it was a lot of fun um and they they just did a terrific job adding this to the mix so this oh good I'm glad they brought the Santa has that's awesome please enjoy Silent Night [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] absolutely beautiful and here's our second addition to the program of one more solo for you tonight um this is a solo from Mora by Pas Chung titled AUD and E minor and PAs Chong is a he is a virtuoso morba player um MBA performer and interestingly about him he he was a Pianist before coming to percussion in morba and um he always just felt more grounded and more centered when he would sit on a piano stool so whenever he performs Mora interestingly he has an organ bench or some sort of bench that he travels around with um and he's always like sitting down and playing and somehow reaches this entire five octave spread of Mora and it's quite fascinating so just a unique thing about Pas but uh this is just a really beautiful piece that Pas wrote in I think grad school when he was at the University of Michigan um and and he he was very self-conscious about his composition about his writing and his his teacher would just tell him you know P brought this to him thinking this was awful music and and and it's just garbage and his teacher was like write what speaks to you and don't worry about what people think of it and and that gave him confidence to write this piece so this is Matthew Hingle performing A E minor [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so our next pie piece while we're have a little bit of a setup change um our next piece is called second thoughts and it's written for you heard me say in the beginning after simplified that I really enjoy new sounds and new uh textures and and just things to to hit as percussionists um I should stand in the light I'm sorry sorry Austin I'll keep moving around on you this one's written for Flor Toms great we have that for our drum set and um saw horses and boom whackers and I thought to myself where in the world it's a cool piece it kind of like reminded me of Blue Man Group if any of you all have seen them play um but I thought to myself where in the world are we going to get we had boom whackers from our music education courses but um I didn't know where we would find saw horses and one day I was just walking in the building and our lovely neighbors right next door our theater shop have like 25 of these saw horses out for all the theater sets that they build and so I was delighted that they were um okay with us borrowing some for our concert today so we have our full setup with uh boom whackers and saw horses for second thoughts for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] d [Music] [Applause] this next piece is written by um Ivan Travino it's called 23 300° it's pretty hot um and I I love that he he included some program notes in his uh composition that I thought I would read to you all because it's I don't know it's just really interesting I think when composers um tell a little bit more about what inspired their pieces um so Ivan writes in the glass B in the glass blowing art World 2,300 de is the temperature at which glass gets interesting I learned this at Corning Museum of Glass where I participated in a Music Plus Glass event watching a glass blowing team work together to shape glass into art is beautiful but for me the large scale feeling of tension and release is by far the most exhilarating part forming and manipulating molten glass in a high press situation that can be dangerous for the artist and their team and one one mistake can completely alter or ruin the art piece when you add a live audience the level of drama is Amplified even further when an art piece is completed it is a joyous moment a true release of tension for both the team and the audience watching with 2300 Dees I wanted to create the same feeling through music one that would both put both the performers and the audience on edge this piece features a stream of constant RS weaved together via polymetric ideas in addition there are moments where performers simultaneously share each other's instruments or perform on a marima while also playing crales the end result is the most Relentless technically challenging Duo I have ever written and with that here is two fantastic procussion is playing 2300 Dees [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] e e [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] amazing um invite the uh the band up for the last tune i' love to do some collaborations with the rest of the uh music prr whenever possible maybe you all were here a couple semesters ago as we featured the the dance studio and this year we are happy to feature Alysa Harry who is one of our graduating seniors and Teddy luk who is a also a graduating senior Teddy plays bass and Alyssa plays saxophone and we're also uh here they come joined by Chi-Chi on saxophone yeah and Hannah Kimbro on keys and Garrett Sherman on drumset um so Alyssa came to me the beginning of the semester just really eager to play um to collaborate with progression ensemble in a Latin setting she performed this on her recital last night actually and it was killer awesome Mambo and Fato and so I thought we'd uh why not have another go at it on the percussion ensong concert so if you feel moved please clap you know this is jazz so they they are just um feeding off of our energy and if you'd like to dance or get up and play some instruments feel free as well um yeah before we get started I'd like to thank of course the uh dean of the College of Arts and Humanities Kathy vosovic and all of her wonderful support for what we do in music here I'd like to thank my wonderful colleagues and especially Adam Donahue leader of our production team for all of their hard work getting the sound and Austin Von winkl our lighting director thank you thank you so much for all all you do add so much to our concerts I'd like to thank these marvelous inspiring students um I say this every semester but I it it really blows me away that they come from all different Majors right and I like to highlight that on our program that we have Majors from criminology game design music business digital art paramedicine Communications and they have one thing in common and that is their love for music and to come play chamber music together and that keeps me going every single day so thank you all for inspiring me and for doing everything you do this is Mambo influen Adu [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] n [Applause] have a night