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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 10

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  • t eS i yrphe rreeee Photograph taken | by WCU student Michael Baldwin of Greensboro is included in the recent Honors Photography Exhibition. April Concert Series By Jennifer Wilkey | WC Tuesday, April 6-Catamount Concert Series: Westerns Percussion Ensemble The Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Mario Gaetano, will perform contemporary music for percussion instruments. The concert will feature pieces including Russells Symphony for Percussion, Gillinghams Normandy Beach and Head Talk, by Ford. A special part of the program will feature the performance of Bartoks Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Lillian Pearson and Brad Martin will be the featured piano soloists, and Mario Gaetano and Rob Falvo (professor of percussion at Appalachian State University) will be the featured percussion soloists. The concert will begin at 8 P.M. and will be held in the recital hall of the Coulter building. Admission is free. Friday and Saturday, April 16 & 17-Second Annual Jazz Festival with Gary Smulyan WCUs Second Annual Jazz Festival will take place on campus at the Coulter building April 16-17, 2004. On Friday, April 16, there will be several rehearsals and a clinic on jazz improvisation with the featured artist, acclaimed baritone saxophonist, Gary Smulyan. Smulyan is a member of the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (former Thad Jones/Mel Lewis big band). On Saturday, April 17, Gary Smulyan will appear in a performance with a professional combo (musicians TBA), the WCU Jazz Combo and WCU Jazz Ensemble. The compositions will include works by Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Herbie Hancock, George Gershwin, Gary Smulyan, Pavel Wlosok, Billy Strayhorn and more. The performance will cover 80 years of Jazz music. The concert begins at 8 P.M. and will be held in the Coulter Recital Hall. The concert and clinics on Friday are free of charge and open to the public. Monday, April 19-Music Theater and Opera Scenes Concert Students of the Music Theatre Program will perform scenes from various Broadway musicals as part of their theater training. The show will include scenes from 42nd Street, Pajama Game, Jesus Christ Super Star, Allegro, Putting It Together, Mamma Mia and The World Goes Round. All of the songs performed will be about money because it is the theme of the evening. Dr. Bradley Martin is the music director and pianist, and the scenes are directed by Amy Dowling, Mary Kay Bauer, and Dennis Jackson. This concert will be held at 8 P.M. in the recital hall of the Coulter building. The concert is free and open to the public. Tuesday, April 20-Catamount Concert Series: WCU Gamelan Ensemble The WCU Low Tech Ensemble, instructed by Dr. Will Peebles, will be performing traditional music from the Far East on a bronze Sundanese gamelan degung. Local friends of the gamelan, Joseph and Virginia Fowler and Dr. Peebles will also be performing. The concert will feature guest artist Burhan Sukarma, an internationally known gamelan musician from Sunda (West Java) now living in the United States, who will be working with the students during his week-long residency at Western. His wife, Rae Ann Stahl, will also perform some examples of kecapi suling, a style of music for Indonesian zither and flute. After the program, the audience will be invited to the stage to try out the instruments themselves. This event will take place at 8 P.M. in the recital hall of the Coulter building. Admission is free. Thursday, April 22-Catamount Chamber Singers and University Chorus Concert The Catamount Chamber Singers, directed by Dr. Bruce Frazier, will be performing a variety of songs in different musical styles. Selections will be taken from Smokey Joes Caf, The Songs of Lieber and Stoller, The Manhattan Transfer in Concert, Motown Forever, and songs of the Swing Era, including Some of These Days, They Cant Take That Away from Me, Dancin Cheek to Cheek, and The Lady is a Tramp. The Catamount Chamber Singers is a small, auditioned group that showcases the talents of the music department and represents the University in public performances. The University Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Robert Holquist, will be performing a variety of selections ranging from sacred classics to popular and folk music. Selections include Pie Jesu from Requiem, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Theme from Ice Castles, by Marvin Hamlisch. The University Chorus is a non-auditioned, mixed ensemble of 50 voices, primarily non music majors. They are accompanied by Emily Slaughter, graduate assistant in choral music. This will be their final performance of the year. The two-part concert will be held at 8 P.M. in the recital hall of the Coulter building. Admission is free. Tuesday, April 27-Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band Concert The Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will both be performing in concert at 8 P.M. in the recital hall of the Coulter building. Admission to this event is free. all tuition and fees, _ Friday, April 30-Western Carolina Civic Orchestra Concert including delinquent The Western Carolina Civic Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Robert Kehrberg, will perform in concert at 8 P.M. in the Coulter Recital Hall. charges, by Monday, Aug. 2, The Civic Orchestra is made up of musicians from five surrounding counties, WCU students, faculty and staff. This concert will feature the winners of a to avoid schedule Concerto Competition: Mr. Jeff Carter (senior Bachelor of Music student) will be playing movements II and Ill of the Gliere Horn Concerto; Ms. Patricia g Griffy, Soprano, (sophomore Musical Theatre student) will be performing excerpts from operas by Donizetti and Mozart; at the pre-college level Ms. cancellation. Ariana Martin, daughter of Dr. William and Mrs. Cherry Martin, will be performing the first movement of Mozarts Piano Concerto #19. The Civic Orchestra will also perform other works. There is no admission charge for this event.
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