SATURDAY at 7:30 P.M.

Cal Poly Humboldt Recital Series Spring Welcome Concert

Fulkerson Recital Hall

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Dance Music and Theater Invites you to the performance of the “Cal Poly Humboldt Recital Series: Welcome to Spring Semester.” Join us Saturday February 1st, 7:30pm at the Fulkerson Recital Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt. The concert features a diverse range of performances by Faculty and Community members: everything from Felix Mendelssohn to a Video Game Medley. Tickets are $20 General, $5 for children and Cal Poly Humboldt Students w/ID. Tickets can be bought at the door or online at https://tickets.humboldt.edu/dance-music-and-theatre

The program begins with Sinfonietta for 10 Winds, Op. 73 by Ruth Gipps. “Sinfonietta takes on the broad scope of the symphonic form in miniature; greatly condensed instrumental forces carry on four brisk movements that breeze by in about 16 minutes. Here near the end of her career, Gipps boils down her favorite form to its essential elements, presenting balmy, sea-soaked melodies in a bold simplicity.” —Program Note by Tyler J. Kimball. Sinfonietta will be performed by Gary Lewis, flute, Kearney Vander Sal, flute, Susan Sisk, oboe, Virginia Ryder, English horn, Ken Ayoob, clarinet, Gwen Gastineau-Ayoob, clarinet, Danny Gaon, bassoon, Susan Kates, bassoon, Anwyn Halliday, French horn, and Donald Bicknell, French horn.

A jazz instrumental version of Baltimore Oriole by Hoagy Carmichael will be performed by Michael Fabian, piano, Gary Lewis, soprano sax, and Brian Post, bass. The song was one of three Carmichael compositions due to be featured in the 1944 film To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart, Carmichael and Lauren Bacall. According to Bacall, Howard Hawks, the film’s director, envisioned the song becoming her signature tune. Instead, Bacall sang the less vocally demanding How Little We Know, and Baltimore Oriole was relegated to serving as background music in the film

Next on the program is Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn. For piano, violin, viola, and cello, the composition was completed on the 18th October, 1822 and dedicated to Polish Prince Antoni Radziwiłł. Mendelssohn’s three numbered piano quartets were the first works of his to be published, hence their opus numbers. The piece was published in 1823, when Mendelssohn was fourteen years old.

The group SoniX, comprised of Garrick Woods, cello, Gary Lewis, flute, Michael Fabian, lead pan, Ginny Ryder, english horn, Brian Post, piano, will perform two pieces by Chick Corea, Childrens Song #2 and Children’s song #7. They will also perform House of Flowers from Jenny Scheinman’s 2024 album All Species Parade. “A native of Humboldt County in northern California, Schienman moved to New York in 1999 and became a distinctive part of the new jazz scene, holding down a weekly gig at Barbès in Brooklyn and playing with a wide cross-section of players including Marc Ribot and Norah Jones. Then in 2012, she returned to northern California’s Lost Coast. That change, along with becoming a first-time parent, are the experiences and emotions she draws on in All Species Parade. Add to that a desire to express her constant sense of wonder inspired by the dramatic landscape of extreme northern California.”—Robert Baird, Stereophile

Garrick Woods, cello, will then perform a piece written by faculty member Brian Post: First Rain
“First Rain is based around a recording that I made of the first rain of the long winter rainy season located in Arcata CA in early November 2022. The audio of rain has been combined with the sounds of a Jean-Claude Risset harmonic arpeggiator, created using Pure Data (PD). I then created audio reactive, geometric visuals using GEM, a digital video external that runs in PD. Lastly a simple score was written for cello, made up of possible scales to be used to improvise freely with for the length of the piece. The overall effect of the electroacoustic work is to give the performer and the listener a deep quiet sense of the transformative power that the rains bring to the Northern California region every year and have been doing so for millennia.”—Brian Post

To finish off the evening Michael Fabian, lead pan, Brian Post, piano, Erich Lenk, drums, and Saul Stuart, bass will perform a video game medley. The medley is made up of compositions from The Legend of Zelda: Windwalker (Dragon Roost Island), Kirby Superstar (Float Island), and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Chemical Plant Zone)

When: Saturday, February 1st at 7:30pm

Where: Fulkerson Recital Hall

Tickets: At the door or online at https://tickets.humboldt.edu/dance-music-and-theatre
$20 General, $5 for children and Humboldt Students w/ID

Email: mus@humboldt.edu

Phone: (707) 826-356

Web: www.music.humboldt.edu

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DATES/TIMES

• Saturday : 7:30 p.m.

WHERE

• Fulkerson Recital Hall

PRICE

• $20
• $5 Cal Poly Students with ID
• $5 Children