Percussion Ensemble and UW Steelband

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Percussion instruments

Bonnie Whiting leads students from the UW Percussion Studio and Shannon Dudley directs the UW Steelband in a celebration of percussion and the environment. This end-of-the-year program including music by American composers John Cage, Caroline Shaw, Christopher Deane, John Luther Adams, Steve Reich, and Mark Applebaum, as well as Caribbean dance music--calypso, soca and salsa--and “Coffee Street,” composed and arranged by steel pan virtuoso Andy Narell.

PROGRAM

UW PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Bonnie Whiting, director

But what about the noise of crumpling paper which he used to do in order to paint the series of

"Papiers froissés" or tearing up paper to make "Papiers déchirés?" Arp was stimulated by

water (sea, lake, and flowing waters like rivers), forests (1985) ............. John Cage (1912-1992)

 

from COYOTE BUILDS NORTH AMERICA:

Consecration (1990) ............................................................... John Luther Adams (b. 1953)

Vespertine Formations (2001) ........................................................ Christopher Deane (b. 1957)

 

from PLAYBOOK:

Look Up (2015, revised 2018).............................................................. Danny Clay (b. 1989)

Illusions of Water ................................................................................. Michiaki Inoma (b. 1964)

Catfish (1997) ................................................................................... Mark Applebaum (b. 1967)

Taxidermy (2012)................................................................................... Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)

 

from PLAYBOOK:

Pulse Pass ...................................................................................................................D. Clay

Nagoya Marimbas (1994) ........................................................................... Steve Reich (b. 1936)

from PLAYBOOK: ................................................................................................................D. Clay

Interrupters

Teeth

Double Mantra

Edward Cunneen, Courtney James, David Norgaard
David Gaskey, Rhane Mallory, Lynn Park
Aidan Gold, Isaac McDonald, Emerson Wahl

 

UW  STEELBAND
Shannon Dudley, director

Charlotte Street ......................................................................................................... Ray Holman

Guantanamera ............................................................................................................. Jose Martí

Leave Me Alone............................................................................ Calypso Rose, arr. Anita Kumar

Yesterday ................................................................................................. Lennon and McCartney

Coffee Street .............................................................................................................. Andy Narell

Bonnie and Clyde ...................................................................... Destra Garcia, arr. Kristen Jones

Jessica Calderon, Thomas Campbell, Evan Cartotto
Michael Hart, Emily Iversen, Aidan Jackson
Janella Kang, Kelsey Kua, Lucas Lindberg, 
T. J. OrgovanColton Rothaus, Andy Varness

Marisol Berríos-Miranda, guest percussionist
Shannon Dudley, director & arranger

 

 

Bonnie Whiting and the UW Percussion Ensemble

The Percussion Ensemble's program features music by Steve Reich and Mark Applebaum as well as music made with found objects and sounds that are open to the natural world. Works include John Cage's ". . . but what about the noise of crumpling paper," Caroline Shaw's "Taxidermy,"  Christopher Deane's "Vespertine Formations" (patterned after the murmurations of starlings), and John Luther Adams' "Consecration," from his work "Coyote Builds North America."

Bonnie Whiting joined the School of Music faculty in Fall 2016 as Chair of Percussion Studies. She performs and commissions new experimental music for percussion. She seeks out projects involving non-traditional notation, interdisciplinary performance, improvisation, and the speaking percussionist. Recent work includes a series of concerts at the John Cage Centennial Festival in Washington DC, and performance as a soloist in Tan Dun's Water Passion under the baton of the composer himself. In 2011, she joined red fish blue fish percussion group in premiering the staged version of George Crumb’s Winds of Destiny directed by Peter Sellars and featuring Dawn Upshaw for Ojai Festival. 

Shannon Dudley and UW Steelband

The UW Steelband (Shannon Dudley, director) performs a repertoire of Caribbean dance music including calypso, soca and salsa.  Program selections include “Coffee Street,” composed and arranged by steel pan virtuoso Andy Narell, who worked with the band on a recent visit to Seattle.

Shannon Dudley is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published his research on steelbands in a number of articles and books, including Carnival Music in Trinidad (Oxford University Press 2004), and Music From Behind the Bridge: Steelband Spirit and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago (Oxford 2008). He has also performed with steelbands in Trinidad and Tobago, including Pandemonium, Phase II Pan Groove, Bird Song, Hummingbird Pan Groove, and Our Boys.  In Seattle he performs on steel pan regularly with his trio, Dingolay, and with Gary Gibson’s Panduo.

In 1998 Dudley brought Trinidadian steelband arranger Ray Holman to the University of Washington as a Visiting Artist in Ethnomusicology.  The University of Washington Steelband was created through this residency, and Dudley has continued to direct it as a School of Music ensemble since Holman’s departure.  The UW steelband’s repertoire emphasizes Caribbean dance styles, including calypso, soca and salsa, and performs at a variety of community events as well as concerts. 


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