Fall Percussion at Utah State University
Next up in its ongoing series of fall ensemble concerts, the Utah State University Department of Music presents the percussion ensembles Monday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall, located in the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s Logan campus.
“The audience will find this concert exciting because of the diverse array of music the Caine Percussion Ensemble and USU Percussion Ensemble will perform,” said Jason Nicholson, assistant professor of percussion in the Caine College of the Arts.
The ensembles will play a piece called Lift-Off by Russell Peck that mimics a helicopter taking off and flying and John Cage’s Third Construction.
“The concert itself will have a variety of different types of music from ‘Third Construction’ that utilizes unorthodox percussion instruments such as tin cans and cricket callers,” said Nicholson. “We’ll also perform Alfieri’s ‘Fanfare for Tambourines’ that features six percussionists who mostly play tambourines.”
Other pieces the ensembles will perform are David Gillingham’s Angels of the Apocalypse to a piece called Catching Shadows, written for marimbas, vibraphones and cajons, said Nicholson.
Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information or to purchase tickets visit the CCA Box Office located in room L-101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, online at the college’s Production Services website or by calling 435-797-8022.
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Writer: Whitney Schulte, 432-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
Contact: Denise Albiston, 435-797-1500, denise.albiston@usu.edu
Percussion ensembles from Utah State University's Department of Music are featured in an annual fall concert Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., in the Chase Fine Arts Center’s Kent Concert Hall. (graphic provided by the Caine College of the Arts)
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