Alligator Alley Program Notes Schumann
As long as a coach is recruiting well, you can have confidence that they will turn it around or the program is headed in the right direction. The one caveat is that you are recruiting well balanced classes. Muschamp did not do so and missed on OL in particular. He would have classes without any LB during a year or taking a really weak QB as a class filler. Willie is signing highly rated classes, but he has the same lack of balance to his classes. Missing in a QB, low ranked OL, while having highly rated DBs.
Sound familiar? As long as a coach is recruiting well, you can have confidence that they will turn it around or the program is headed in the right direction.
The one caveat is that you are recruiting well balanced classes. Muschamp did not do so and missed on OL in particular. He would have classes without any LB during a year or taking a really weak QB as a class filler.
Willie is signing highly rated classes, but he has the same lack of balance to his classes. Missing in a QB, low ranked OL, while having highly rated DBs. Sound familiar?
The Stone Fort Wind Quintet at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7, in Cole Concert Hall as part of the School of Music's Calliope Concert Series.The quintet includes SFA music faculty members Christina Guenther, flute; Kerry Hughes, oboe; Christopher Ayer, clarinet; Charles Gavin, horn; and Lee Goodhew, bassoon.The program opens with 'Pastorale' by Amy Beach.' This lovely little piece by American pianist-composer Amy Beach features interesting harmonies as the melody floats through the ensemble,' Guenther said.Composer-conductor-mezzo soprano Jenni Brandon's 'Five Frogs,' a fun piece in six movements depicting various events in the life of frogs, is also on the program.Each movement features one of the five quintet instruments, Guenther explained. 'Leaping' features the clarinet actively jumping in eighth notes; 'On the Lily Pad' features the oboe in improvisational melismas; 'Swimming' features the horn, melodically, while the rest of the ensemble accompanies; 'Bullfrog' features the bassoon as the bullfrog; 'Catching Bugs' features the piccolo as the frog (and the horn mouthpiece as the bug); and 'Epilogue' closes the work with some returning material from earlier in the piece.Cuban composer Paquito D'Rivera's 'Wapango,' also on the program, is a short, lively and rhythmic work with a fun Latino flair, according to Guenther.'
Alligator Alley Program Notes Schumann Piano Quintet
'Wapango' is a Mexican folk dance and music style, part of the style 'son huasteco,' she explained. 'The word may be a corruption of the Nahuatl word 'cuauhpanco' that literally means 'on top of the wood,' alluding to a wooden platform on which dancers can make zapateado dance steps.' A five-movement piece by American composer Daniel Dorff, 'Cape May Breezes' depicts different events in Cape May, such as the autumn monarch migration, dusk at Sunset Beach and night breezes on the boardwalk.The final work on the program is a short, fun piece by American hornist-composer Lowell 'Spike' Shaw. 'Dear Tessiel' is a jazz-inspired quintet, Guenther said.' The title does not refer to an individual, but rather was an exclamation that came into use (and then faded quickly) about the time Shaw first put the tune to paper,' she explained. 'It started out as a piano sketch, later surfaced as a 'chart' for big dance band, and then was put into quintet form as a concert closer.' Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth.
For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.article ID 1382. The characters in Anne Washburn's 'Mr. Burns, a post-electric play' use the TV series 'The Simpsons' as a vehicle - a shield or distraction - to avoid dealing with the hard truth of the world as it has become in a post-apocalyptic era.That perspective by scenic designer Kenneth Verdugo helped guide his thought process in designing the set for the dark comedy to be presented by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre as part of its 2017-18 Mainstage Series.' The play is extremely dark at times,' said Verdugo, visiting assistant professor in the School of Theatre.
'I wanted to go very dark at first - mirroring a kind of 9/11 picture of despair and hopelessness. Keeping it light was my challenge.' Burns' combines a nuclear catastrophe, 'The Simpsons' and the myth-making impulse to reinvent contemporary theatre, according to its director, Slade Billew, assistant professor of acting/movement at SFA.The play follows six people (and later seven) who have survived a nationwide nuclear power disaster.
Society has collapsed, and there is no electricity. In Act One, the characters sit around a fire and try to recall an episode of 'The Simpsons.' Act Two occurs seven years later. The survivors have regrouped and formed a theatre company performing old episodes of 'The Simpsons.' They are seen in rehearsal where we discover more about the world they have helped remake. Act Three takes place 82 years after the initial disaster and includes a full musical performance of an episode of 'The Simpsons.'
'The set evolves in three acts,' Verdugo explained. 'The various locations or set elements evolve or progress accordingly, on a given trajectory, within the life of this particular theatre company over the years. There are a few iconographic elements directly referencing 'The Simpsons.' Over time, however, their cloudy images are based on word of mouth alone.' Linked to a previous generation's lost technology, 'The Simpsons' becomes a product of history,' he added. 'That history gets retold in the form of a musical 82 years later. Of course, with time comes change.'
The play is not a recreation of 'The Simpsons,' but rather it is a series of visual snapshots and remembrances. The play is reflective of the values and pop-cultural references commonly shared within that generation's collective memories, Verdugo said.'
I wanted the design to reflect the point-of-view of this small collective of players,' he said, adding he hopes audience members will remember the boat painting on the wall of the Simpson home that he designed for the set.' The characters in this play create an edgy coping mechanism in order to sublimate the darker underbelly of their new post-apocalyptic reality,' Verdugo said. 'That coping mechanism comes in the form of a reformulated episode of 'The Simpsons.'
'Their play (the musical) compelled me to be somewhat uplifted - to allow playful madness to help shape and/or normalize an otherwise desperate situation.' Burns, a post-electric play' is not appropriate for young children.The play will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Nov. 7 through 11, in W.M. Turner Auditorium in the Griffith Fine Arts Building, 2222 Alumni Drive, on the SFA campus.Single tickets are $15 for adult, $10 for senior and $7.50 for student/youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.
The Madrigal Singers at Stephen F. Austin State University will present a choral program, 'Sacred and Profane,' at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.The concert will explore themes of love, nature, the divine and exotic fairy tales, according to Dr. Michael Murphy, director of choral activities at SFA.The program includes 'Trois Chansons,' or 'Three Chansons,' by Maurice Ravel.These three French songs give an interesting twist to the fairy tale of Red Riding Hood, a song of merciless conflict and a fantasy about forest creatures, Murphy explained.Also on the program is A Set of Chinese Folk Songs by Chen Yi, who was the first woman in China to receive a Master of Arts in Musical Composition. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1969, Chen was sent to the work camps for forced labor.
Even though she was unable to practice her violin for many years, she developed a love for folk songs that she would regularly hear in the countryside.The SFA Madrigal Singers will perform three of her folk song arrangements. 'Diu Diu Deng' has the choir portraying a steam locomotive. 'Mayila' is a song about a young girl singing songs and playing the dongbula.
And, 'Riding on a Mule' exhibits vocal percussive sounds and pentatonic melodies. Now a professor of composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Chen weaves western and eastern influences into her musical compositions.The ensemble will also perform Igor Stravinsky's setting of T.S. Eliot's 'The dove descending breaks in the air,' which is composed as a serial or twelve-tone composition.' The descending dove signals the entrance of the Holy Spirit into the world in order to cleanse humanity,' Murphy explained.Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.article ID 1379. The Stephen F.
Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present the SFA Percussion Ensemble in concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.Under the direction of Dr. Brad Meyer, director of percussion studies at SFA, the ensemble will perform works by Thierry De Mey, Steve Reich, Marc Mellits, John Psathas, Owen Clayton Condon and Matt Moore.The concert will also feature the premiere performance of 'Aqua Vitae' by Stephen Gorbos. SFA's Phi Boota Roota percussion fraternity was part of the consortium that funded the new work.The Percussion Ensemble will perform De Mey's 'Musique de Table,' which is visual as well as aural.'
The piece must be seen as well as heard,' De Mey said. 'The piece has the structure of a baroque suite.' (The inspiration is an 18th century form called 'Tafelmusik,' originally played to entertain guests while they sat at a table eating).
'It's a serious piece, yet it has humor built into it.' The program also includes 'Six Marimbas' by Reich; 'Kyoto' by Psathas; 'Fractalia' by Condon; 'Critical Mass' by Moore; and 'Gravity' by Mellits.Commissioned by international consortium percussion groups from around the globe, 'Gravity' was written for a combination of marimbas and vibraphones, and the mixture of sound that these different materials make provide a spring board for the musical lines to intersect, bounce, and play off each other, always getting faster, always 'falling from the sky,' according to Mellits.' While writing 'Gravity,' I found myself thinking about how musical notes and lines can become attracted to each other and follow one another,' he wrote in describing the piece. 'With a musical gravitational force, the lines follow each other, then bounce back and forth together. The overall rhythm and tempo also shifts in a 'gravitational' way.
The music continually gets faster and faster, always picking up speed as it falls, spiraling into a new tempo at each musical shift in texture.' Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.article ID 1380. Performer, teacher and composer Chris Whyte will present a guest percussion recital at 6 p.m. 6, in Cole Concert Hall on the campus of Stephen F.
Austin State University.The recital, titled 'With Tape,' is a feature of the SFA School of Music's Calliope Concert Series and will include a program of works by Bob Becker, Paul Bissell and Bruce Hamilton.' Each of the works on this program is for solo percussion with digital audio accompaniment,' Whyte said.Becker's 'Lahara' was composed in 1977 after his extensive study of North Indian classical music. He utilized traditional forms and rhythms found within compositions for Indian classical instruments, and he employs them in the realm of pseudo-rudimental western drumming, according to Dr.
Brad Meyer, director of percussion studies at SFA.' Through this progression of forms, Becker attempts to invoke the rhythmic quality and character of table drumming,' Meyer said.Bissell's 'The Alabados Song' stems from a fading tradition of Hispanic/Catholic communities in the southwest United States.' As families and entire villages moved in the early 1900s from Mexico and other South American countries into the United States, they created communities in America not serviced by a formal church or clergy due to their geographical isolation,' the composer wrote. 'For religious events, these groups had to improvise their own ceremonies, including the ceremony of last rites for the dying.' Hamilton composed 'EDGE (Corrugated Box)' in 1991 for an assortment of drums, cymbals, accessory percussion instruments and vibraphone.' The tape and solo parts interact seamlessly throughout the approximately 15-minute work,' Whyte explained.
'Hamilton's aesthetic makes use of constant cross-rhythmic textures and metric modulations to weave rhythmic and melodic themes together.' Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth.
For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.article ID 1381. Former Nacogdoches Mayor Roger Van Horn, right, was honored by the College of Fine Arts Dean's Circle at its recent reception and fundraiser. “Buddy” Himes, dean of the College of Fine Arts, and Mayor Shelley Brophy are also pictured. Nacogdoches Mayor Shelley Brophy recognized Winners’ Circle event sponsors at the recent reception and fundraiser, including Kim Crisp, owner of The Old Tobacco Warehouse where the event was held; Ian Gibson, business development manager at Nacogdoches Medical Center; and Ron Johnson, CBH Insurance Agency, Inc.
The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free, one-night screening of 'DamNation' at 7 p.m. 3, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.Directed by Travis Rummel and Ben Knight, 'DamNation' is a 2014 advocacy documentary about the changing attitudes in the U.S. Concerning the nation's large system of dams.' DamNation' takes a powerful film odyssey across America to explore the change in national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that the future is bound to the life and health of rivers, according to information at. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life.
'The film's majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature,' the website says.' DamNation' won the Audience Choice Award at Austin's 2014 South by Southwest and at the 2014 Environmental Film Festival at Yale, where it also won the Grand Jury Prize. The film was named Best Conservation Film at the 2014 International Wildlife Film Festival. It won numerous environmental documentary awards. The film runs 87 minutes.This screening is part of the School of Art's monthly Friday Film Series and is sponsored in part by William Arscott, Nacogdoches Film Festival, Karon Gillespie, Mike Mollot, David Kulhavy, Brad Maule, John and Kristen Heath, Galleria Z, Jill Carrington, Jean Stephens, Jim and Mary Neal, Richard Orton, Nacogdoches Junior Forum and Main Street Nacogdoches.The Cole Art Center is located at 329 E.
For more information, call (936) 468-1131.article ID 1375. The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the SFA Galleries will host the exhibition 'Collective Transference: Houston Area Clay' Oct. 31 through Dec.
30 in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.The ceramics exhibition, curated by Jeff Forster and Michelle Matthews, features clay artists who highlight the quality and diversity of artists working in Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend, Liberty, Galveston, Chambers, Waller and Brazoria counties.' A limited number of tickets are still available to attend the Nov. 16 and 17 performances of Moscow Ballet's 'Great Russian Nutcracker' at Stephen F. Austin State University.An Encore Event presented by the SFA College of Fine Arts, 'The Great Russian Nutcracker' will be presented at 7:30 each night in W.M. Turner Auditorium.All ages will want to celebrate Christmas with the Moscow Ballet's company of nearly 40 ballerinas and other dancers on its 25th Anniversary Tour of North America.Known for its award-winning, technically supreme performers, lavish costumes and magnificent backdrops, this ballet ensemble performed at SFA in 2009 before a sold-out Turner Auditorium crowd.' Good seats are still available for both performances,' said Scott Shattuck, associate dean of the College of Fine Arts and director of the University Series. 'But sales are unusually brisk, especially for the Friday performance, so it's important to order tickets early to avoid disappointment.
We feel sure we'll sell out both of these shows!' A separate event apart from the University Series, Nutcracker adult tickets are $45 for Section A seating, $36 for Section B seating and $20 for Section C seating. Discounts are available for seniors, students, children, SFA faculty and staff members. Some student/youth tickets are available for as little as $8 each.Both performances are sponsored in part by Lehmann Eye Center.As an 'informance' prior to the Thursday night performance, Haley Hoss-Jameson, associate professor and co-coordinator of dance in the SFA Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, will present an informative talk at 7 p.m.
In Griffith Gallery.The gallery is located across the hall from Turner Auditorium, which is inside the Griffith Fine Arts Building, 2222 Alumni Drive. The audience is invited back to the gallery for a post-performance reception Thursday to meet the dancers and to honor the event's corporate sponsor.For more information, visit finearts.sfasu.edu, stop by the Box Office in Room 211 of the Griffith Fine Arts Building, or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS. Playwright Anne Washburn's 'Mr. Burns, a post-electric play' has something for everyone, and the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will bring the imaginative dark comedy to life as part of its 2017-18 Mainstage Series.Described by The New York Times as 'downright brilliant,' 'Mr.
Burns' is a show that embodies what its director, Slade Billew, loves most about the theatre.' It has a bit of everything,' said Billew, assistant professor of acting/movement in the SFA School of Theatre. 'It is funny and tragic. It includes fights, dances and songs.
It is profound and hilarious. Additionally, I hope that the connections to 'The Simpsons,' pop culture, and a post-apocalyptic future will appeal to our student audiences.' The play follows six people (and later seven) who have survived a nationwide nuclear power disaster. Society has collapsed, and there is no electricity. In Act One, the characters sit around a fire and try to recall an episode of 'The Simpsons.' Act Two occurs seven years later. The survivors have regrouped and formed a theatre company performing old episodes of 'The Simpsons.'
They are seen in rehearsal where we discover more about the world they have helped remake. Act Three takes place 82 years after the initial disaster and includes a full musical performance of an episode of 'The Simpsons.'
Burns' requires the director and student actors to pay great attention to detail, Billew explained.' The play's complexity requires an intense level of attention to detail and coordination of all the elements of production,' he said. 'The show asks so much of the cast in the movement between extremes of emotion and the physicality of all the songs and dances.' The script has been described as providing an interesting examination of the importance of oral history and theatre. According to The New York Times, Washburn's play 'makes us appreciate anew the profound value of storytelling in and of itself Mr. Burnsmakes the case for theater as the most glorious and durable storyteller of all.' 'The play has something for everyone, and it raises interesting questions about how humans handle tragedy and the role art plays in the recovery,' Billew said.'
Burns, a post-electric play' is not appropriate for young children.The play will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Nov. 7 through 11, in W.M. Turner Auditorium in the Griffith Fine Arts Building, 2222 Alumni Drive, on the SFA campus.Single tickets are $15 for adult, $10 for senior and $7.50 for student/youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit. Austin State University art history graduate Kendrick Perkins is working toward earning a master's degree through the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Perkins is an Urban Scholar Fellow enrolled in the school's Technology, Innovation and Education master's program where his studies focus on learning design, entrepreneurship and emerging technology in K-12 urban education.'
I chose Harvard because of the intellectual and demographic diversity of the faculty and students,' he said. 'I was drawn to my particular program because it is one of the few educational technology programs in the country with an interdisciplinary approach to education that spans several industries including the K-12 educational sector.
The flexibility was particularly interesting because it allows me to combine my interest in the business of education technology and K-12 urban education innovation through classes across the various schools at Harvard, as well as MIT.' The A Cappella Choir at Stephen F. Austin State University will present a collaborative program with the SFA School of Theatre and the Dance Program to perform music from around the world in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct.
26, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.The program title, 'Sing a New Song,' was selected to celebrate Dr. Michael Murphy's first concert as the new director of choral activities at SFA. Murphy was named choral director following the retirement of Dr.
The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre will present Christopher Durang's full-length play 'Baby with the Bathwater' at 7:30 p.m.
27, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. 28, in the Downstage Theatre on the SFA campus.Directed by Center senior Avery Tindol, 'Baby with the Bathwater' is a dark comedy about the struggles of both parenthood and childhood.
It is recommended for mature audiences.' When John and Helen bring home their newborn baby, it doesn't take long for them to realize that parenting isn't that simple,' Tindol explained. 'Baby eventually grows up while facing the problems that most children experience throughout their lives.'
Some of these problems include being kidnapped, almost being run over by busses on multiple occasions, and identity issues.The cast includes Frisco sophomore Aubrey Moore as Helen; Lufkin senior Jacob Carr as John; Plano senior Cecily Maucieri as the Nanny; Burleson senior Paige Farley as Cynthia/Voice/Susan; Huffman junior Sidney Lowell as Kate/Miss Pringle; Dallas senior Madison Rey as Angela/Mrs. Austin State University theatre students had returned only a few weeks from the School of Theatre's highly successful biennial trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland, when the planning for the 2019 trip was underway.Begun in 1947, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest international theatre arts festival in the world. During festival season, which is three weeks in August, the International Festival, the Festival Fringe, jazz festival, art festival and book festival all take place in Edinburgh. The event has become a much-anticipated learning opportunity for SFA theatre students to tour a show on the international stage, according to SFA Professor of Theatre Angela Bacarisse.' The trip is a bit of a whirl-wind experience,' Bacarisse said. 'The students have technical rehearsals and performances on their first day in Edinburgh, and the remaining performances are spread out over the first week of the trip.'
They have opportunities to see productions by the other American universities participating in the Festival as well as the plethora of international productions,' she added. 'In the space of three weeks, there are more than 30,000 separate performances. Deciding what to see can be daunting.' The trip provides excellent networking for the students and a unique opportunity to spread the word about SFA to people from around the world, said Dr. Slade Billew, assistant professor of acting and movement in the School of Theatre and director of the play the students presented at the festival, 'Closed For Repairs,' written by former SFA student Bobby Britton of Angleton.'
Our students actively engaged with new people that they met,' Billew said. 'Many of the people they met throughout the trip came to see our show. I think seeing a range of international performances broadened their ideas of what theatre can be. And, I think performing in a non-traditional venue and for non-American audiences challenged their abilities as performers in ways that helped them grow.'
As an added bonus this year, the SFA School of Theatre was the first festival collegiate group to be asked to perform at a special event at the Scottish Arts Club. The trip also allowed the students to explore Edinburgh, including climbing Arthur's Seat and attending the Military Tattoo.' The students had a wonderful time and were consummate professionals when it came to work,' Billew said.The School of Theatre sent its first student entourage to the Scotland festival in 2015 and then again this past summer. Both trips were equally successful, said Bacarisse, who has begun planning for the next Festival Fringe in two years.' I already have collaborators and a show in mind,' she said.The total cost per student is approximately $5,000, which includes airfare and room and board.
Donations are accepted to help fund the trip, and various fundraisers will be conducted to help defray costs.' We are so grateful for everyone who supports the arts and our students,' Bacarisse said. 'Allowing them the opportunity to tour a show, perform abroad and learn more about our global community is a great gift.'
Tax-exempt donations for the trip can be made at sfasu.edu/giving by clicking on the 'give online' tab and writing 'Scotland trip' for special instructions.article ID 1365. The Wind Ensemble at Stephen F. Austin State University will perform a concert featuring the music of American composer Michael Daugherty at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.A Grammy Award winner, Daugherty is professor of composition at the University of Michigan.' He will be at SFA for the concert and to speak to our classes,' said Fred J. Allen, director of bands and the conductor for the Wind Ensemble.
'We will perform three of his compositions on this concert.' Daugherty's 'Dead Elvis' will feature SFA School of Music faculty member Lee Goodhew, assistant professor of bassoon, and other music faculty.' This piece is written for a group of six performers who accompany the solo bassoon,' Allen said.Joining Goodhew will be music faculty members Chris Ayer, clarinet; Jennifer Dalmas, violin; Carlos Gaviria, bass; Jacob Walburn, trumpet; Deb Scott, trombone; and Brad Meyer, drums.'
Elvis fans will not want to miss this homage to the King of Rock and Roll,' Allen said.Daugherty is one of the most commissioned, performed and recorded composers on the American concert music scene today. He has been hailed by London's The Times as 'a master icon maker' with 'maverick imagination, fearless structural sense and meticulous ear.' Daugherty has received numerous awards, distinctions and fellowships for his music, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others.Daugherty's 'Rio Grande' and 'Of War and Peace' are also on the program.' SFA was part of the commission that produced 'Of War and Peace,' Allen said.The band will also perform the John Philip Sousa march 'Boy Scouts of America.' Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.article ID 1363. The dynamic and creative Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet will present 'A Broken Anthology of Western Music' at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 18, in Cole Concert Hall on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.The quartet is an artist-run creative project by bassoonists Brittany Harrington-Smith, Yuki Katayama, Kara LaMoure and Lauren Yu Ziemba.
Their repertoire disregards genre, with favorites from the worlds of classical, pop, jazz, soundtrack and folk music adapted for the ensemble by its members, according to Lee Goodhew, assistant professor of bassoon in the SFA School of Music.' Each member is a well-respected performer and musician in her own right,' Goodhew said, 'and besides being a lot of fun, the quartet's show displays the broad artistic range of the bassoon.' Known for their stage antics, the quartet uses choreography, accessory instruments, props and skits to add theatrical elements to their performances, Goodhew explained.According to member LaMoure, Breaking Winds 'hijacks chestnuts of the repertoire and restores the bassoon to its rightful place in each.' 'All music in the period between Biber and Bieber is fair game, now presented in arrangements for bassoon quartet with enhancements like kazoo virtuosity, marching band-style choreography, reed squeaks and pop progressions,' LaMoure said. 'Over the course of this whirlwind tour, the listener gains a new appreciation for the bassoon and a new view of classical music history. Even better, they may go home with confetti in their hair.' Among the program selections are 'Piece en forme de habanero' by Maurice Ravel, arranged by Lamoure; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture;' and The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet's own medley, '2017 Overture.'
'This medley of recent popular songs is performed 'BWBQ style,' with the quartet members performing choreographed dances and getting up close and personal with the audience,' LaMoure said.Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.article ID 1364.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area-based fLOW Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in the Music Recital Hall on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University as part of the SFA School of Music's Octubafest celebration.Octubafest is an event that occurs at many universities around the world. The observance is designed to highlight the tuba and euphonium for their solo and chamber repertoire, according to Dr.
Salas, associate professor of tuba and euphonium studies at SFA.fLOW's program will feature the world premiere of Yuji Ono's Quartet No. Other program selections are 'Contrapunctus IX' by J.S.Bach, arranged by Mike Forbes; 'Benediction' by John Stevens; Quartet No.
4 '4 Dreams,' by Yuji Ono; and 'Brink' by Dan Kramer. Danny Chapa, adjunct professor of low brass at SFA, will perform on the Serenade from 'The Student Prince' by Sigmund Romberg.Maintaining an active schedule of performances and clinics, fLOW recently won the 2017 South Central Regional Tuba & Euphonium Conference Ensemble Competition. Renowned cellist Nikola Nino Ruževic will present a guest recital at 7:30 p.m. 6, in Cole Concert Hall on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.Ruževic, who is associate professor of cello and chamber music and the coordinator of chamber music studies at the University of North Texas, will perform with his wife, pianist Lara Ruževic.The program will feature Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata for Cello, Sergei Rachmaninoff's 'Vocalise,' and Croatian cello compositions.
The concert will also feature a cello ensemble composition involving students of Dr. Evgeni Raychev, instructor of cello in the SFA School of Music.A native of Croatia, Ruževic has performed in many countries around the world where he has received critical acclaim for his artistry. An active soloist and chamber musician, Ruževic has performed in world-renowned halls, such as The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein in Vienna, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.Ruževic has held teaching positions at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, University of Texas at Arlington and University of Zagreb, Croatia.Lara Ruzevic is an international concert pianist and pedagogue. Her career has taken her to Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Slovakia and the U.S.
Active as a chamber musician and a collaborative artist, she has been on faculty of numerous music festivals and frequently performs with UNT music faculty and students.Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit.article ID 1359.