24+24 Composers' Concert
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 7:30p in the Concert Hall
Program
Vishuddha |
Trinton Prater |
| Lisa Lutgen, oboe Eugene Ryoo, tenor saxophone |
Vishuddha or the throat chakra, is the fifth primary chakra according to the Hindu tradition of tantra. |
Meander |
Angelica Emrich |
| Keegan Hockett, Bassoon |
Take Me To The River |
Matt Mason |
| Miguel Calleja, violin |
Take Me To The River "I have heard that every body of water in North America is connected. But how the river runs is no concern of mine." |
Blue Bamboo |
Wenxin Li |
| Gabriel Sánchez Porras, alto saxophone |
Blue Bamboo This piece focuses on Saxophone’s multiphonics technique. An air sound, a single tone, an interval, and a chord can all be derived from a single fingering, which is like how bamboo grows, from the bottom one chuck above another. Besides, Saxophone’s texture (especially with heavy key clicks) sounds bamboo-like to me. |
Impulse for solo trombone |
Hongwei Cai |
| Mark L Rheaume, trombone |
Feelings, for solo trumpet |
Sanggeun Choi |
| Kenken Gorder, trumpet |
Feelings A theme is from "Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseno" which is originally a piano piece composed by the Spanish composer, Enrique Granados. |
Black Swan, for solo oboe |
Geng Zhang |
| Amelia Johnson, oboe |
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Ramin Roshandel |
| Sam Kelly, clarinet Alexis Doremus, oboe |
N for Nasrin Sotoudeh. |
"Conductor Piece" No. 2 for solo conductor |
Tyler Katz |
| Megan Maddaleno, conductor |
Conductor Piece No. 2 explores the sounds created by a baton on the music stand. The conductor acts less as a conductor, but rather, more closely to a percussionist, with the baton and the stand themselves becoming the instruments. |
Redbud blossom, blueberry bee |
Gregory Evans |
| Adrián Gómez, cello |
That’s Not the Sun in the Sky, It’s a Human Heart |
| Jess Moriner, piano |
That’s Not the Sun in the Sky, It’s a Human Heart The piece consists of eight-ish short, repeated fragments played very loud and very fast for varied durations, with the pedal left open to allow for sympathetic vibrations of the strings. The pianist is asked to “Just beat the hell out of” each chord, and generally just have fun with it. |