OCTOBER 8, 2009 ISSUE
Hayes School of Music This Week
If you love guitar music, help the annual Appalachian GuitarFest continue by attending a benefit concert this Sunday, October 11. The event, held each spring, suffered significant cuts in financial support because of the economic downturn.
Unless otherwise indicated, concerts take place in the Broyhill Music Center on the ASU campus. For more information about any of these performances, call 828-262-3020.
Appalachian Wind Ensemble Sunday
John Stanley Ross conducts the Appalachian Wind Ensemble in a program titled “Masterworks for Winds” this Sunday, October 11, at 2:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall.
The program opens with Giovanni Gabrieli’s “Sonata pian’e forte,” performed by the Brass Choir within the wind ensemble. The sonata was composed in 1597 for St. Mark’s Cathedral of Venice.
The wind ensemble performs Claude T. Smith’s “Eternal Father, Strong to Save,” a work written in 1975 that premiered at a Kennedy Center celebration of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Navy Band. Also on the program is Richard Wagner and Erik Leidzen’s “Trauersinfonie,” written to aid the torchlight procession that accompanied the remains of composer Carl Maria von Weber to a cemetery in Dresden, Germany.
The ensemble will perform two movements from Morton Gould’s “Symphony for Band – West Point Symphony” and Paul Hindemith’s “March” from “Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber” arranged for band.
GuitarFest Benefit Concert Sunday
Musicians from the Hayes School of Music and others will present a concert this Sunday, October 11, to benefit the annual Appalachian GuitarFest. The program begins at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. The suggested donation is $5 per person.
“Budget cuts associated with the state and national economic downturn have greatly reduced the amount of support available to GuitarFest,” said festival director Douglas James. James directs the guitar program in the School of Music.
The benefit concert will feature James, the Carolina String Duo, Patrick Lui, Alan Mearns, Swing Guitars (Andy Page and Jay Brown), and the Appalachian State University Guitar Orchestra. Special guests are flutist Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham and violinist Witold Kosmala.
The program includes “Capricho Arabe” by Francisco Tarrega performed by James, Bach’s “Adagio and Fugue from BWV 1005” performed by Mearns, “Guitar Blues,” Teasin’ the Frets” and “Lady Be Good” performed by the Swing Guitars, Maximo Diego Pujol’s “Elegia por la muerte de un tanguero” and Quique Sinesi’s “Open Sky” performed by Patrick Lui, and selections performed by the Carolina String Duo and the Appalachian Guitar Orchestra with Kosmala and Schneeloch-Bingham.
Appalachian Concert Band October 12
The 107-member Appalachian Concert Band will fill Rosen Concert Hall with sound during a Monday, October 12, concert at 8:00 p.m.
John Stanley Ross will conduct “Procession of Nobles” by Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov and arranged for band by Erik Leidzen, and “Amazing Grace” by Robert Rumbelow.
Graduate student Les Turner conducts Clare Grundman’s “Concord.” Turner also will conduct “Loch Lomond” by Frank Ticheli.
Scott Tobias will conduct Jose Padilla’s “El Relicario” and John Barnes Chance’s “Incantation and Dance.”
Appalachian Symphony Orchestra October 13
The works of Verdi, Copeland and Brahms are featured during a Tuesday, October 13, performance by the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free.
James Allen Anderson directs the performance of the overture to “La forza del destino” by Verdi, Copeland’s “Lincoln Portrait” and “Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 68” by Brahms.
Gordon Hensley, an assistant professor from Appalachian’s Department of Theatre and Dance, will narrate “Lincoln Portrait.”
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