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Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty Welcome Concert
A new year of live classical music at the newly renamed Cal Poly Humboldt begins on Saturday, February 12th at 5:00 p.m. with the Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre’s Faculty Welcome Concert. Please join an exciting collective of Humboldt music faculty, emeritus faculty, Humboldt graduates, and community musicians in Fulkerson Recital Hall as they present an early evening concert of superb chamber music, featuring selections for strings, woodwinds, brass, voice, and piano. Audiences eager to hear some of their favorite local musicians in live performance will have the option of attending the concert in person, or to purchase a LIVESTREAM link, allowing them to attend the concert remotely from their own living room. Before purchasing tickets for the live event, please familiarize yourself with current campus COVID-19 guidelines which are detailed on the ticketing link. Advance purchase of tickets at music.humboldt.edu/upcoming is strongly recommended as a limited number of tickets will be sold, allowing for social distancing. $15 General, $5 Child and HSU students with ID, $7 LIVESTREAM. The concert repertoire features music from the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, plus a World Premiere composition by Cal Poly Humboldt Music Professor Brian Post. The lush and lovely “Petite Symphonie” by French composer Charles Gounod was composed in the late nineteenth century, at a time of renewed interest in chamber music for wind instruments championed by French flutist Paul Taffanel, and immediately following a major improvement in the construction of woodwind instruments by German inventor and musician Theobald Boehm. Gounod set this entire work for a standard “serenade” instrumentation of eight players, but added a single solo flute part to feature Taffanel. This performance of the “Andante cantabile” and “Finale” movements spotlight Cal Poly Humboldt flute instructor Gary Lewis, who arrived on campus just months before Covid-19 did two years ago, and who finally has the opportunity to share his fine musicianship with his collaborators and audience alike. Rounding out the ensemble are Virginia Ryder and Susan Sisk on oboe, Ken Ayoob and Gwen Gastineau Ayoob on clarinet, Aaron Lopez and Danny Gaon on bassoon, and Anwyn Halliday and Don Bicknell on horn. Elisabeth Harrington performs lieder by the late Romantic and modernist German composer Richard Strauss, with John Chernoff collaborating on the piano. She will sing “Ich trage meine Minne” and “Morgen!.” Two nicely contrasting works for strings include violinists Cindy Moyer and Karen Davy joining cellist Garrick Woods performing the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s undeniably classical “Trio in Eb Major, Op. 3,” as well as Moyer and Woods performing the dynamic first movement of “Duo, Op. 7” for violin and cello by the twentieth century Hungarian composer and music educator Zoltán Kodály. Also, after a hiatus from live performance, the Vipisa Trio returns to the Fulkerson Recital Hall stage, with violinist Moyer joined by Virginia Ryder on the clarinet and John Chernoff at the keyboard. They perform a Brian Post arrangement of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Georgia On My Mind” which is based on a performance by Ray Charles and dedicated to Stacey Abrams and her fight against voter suppression. Not daunted by new sounds and techniques, clarinetist Ryder is also featured in the World Premiere performance of Post’s “Twelve Oscillations of the Millennium Blob,” a composition for b-flat clarinet, fixed media and video. Inspired by Millennium Blob, a sculpture located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, the undulating electronic sounds and video are created using Pure Data, the management and manipulation of audio and image processing in a single environment. These manipulations are further refined using an ambient, minimalist approach, creating a metered and unmetered oscillating electronic music through which the clarinet part is woven in and out, exploiting special sounds unique to the instrument including glissandi, microtones combined with slow pitch bends, honks, squeaks, squawks, humming and free improvisation. Also featured on this eclectic program are selections from “Le Cinema Muet” by respected twentieth century French composer and music educator Pierre Max Dubois. Known mostly for his instrumental compositions for winds, and especially saxophones, this is a charming work composed effectively for brass quartet. This particular quartet, like all of the ensembles featured on this concert, is made up of well known musicians and music educators from here on the North Coast, including Chris cox on trumpet, Ronite Gluck on horn, Dan Aldag on trombone, and Fred Tempas on tuba.
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