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Doctoral Recital Stream/Watch Party
I will be posting a stream of my DMA #2 recital from this past month for all the people who were not able to attend the event in-person and would like to check it out.
I was lucky enough to have videographer extraordinaire Bill Brandenburgh at the helm for this concert so, if you didn't get to catch the show, it will be as if you were there!
Artists:
Yu-Ting Judy Huang, viola
Ryan Thomas, percussion
Yudong Wang, percussion
PASIC New Music/Research Presentation
Platero y yo para percusion y narrador: Storytelling for the Speaking Percussionist
“Platero y yo para percusion y narrador” is a series of arrangements for the speaking percussionist. Originally a set of children’s poems written by Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez which were then taken and accompanied with guitar miniatures by Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, “Platero y yo” finds itself touching on themes of love, death, and the spiritual. Tedesco’s version was originally intended as a duet (guitar & narrator) however, after having submerged myself into Tedesco/Jimenez’s material over the past half-decade, I’ve found a deep ardor performing it as a solo percussionist/narrator.
The two movements will be presented side-by-side with an animated video accompaniment by Hannah Lutz, as well as an English translation.
Mvmts:
I. “Platero” – An introduction to Platero, the donkey, and his loving owner, the narrator. (3 min)
V. “El Pozo/The Well” – Platero and the narrator come across a deep, sonorous well. (3 min)
DMA Recital #2
Program Includes:
Rain Tree - Toru Takemitsu
Compass - Baljinder Sekhon
Songs I - IX - Stuart Saunders Smith
Psappha - Iannis Xenakis