Cal Poly Humboldt Recital Series: Welcome Concert
The Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Dance, Music and Theatre is excited to begin another academic year full of amazing performances. To begin the semester, the department presents “The Cal Poly Humboldt Recital Series: Welcome Concert”—an evening of instrumental duos and solos featuring the faculty of the Cal Poly Music program. The program for the evening features pieces by Aaron Minsky, the groundbreaking cellist known professionally as Von Cello, Peter Schickele of PDQ Bach fame, Paul Harvey, Michael Kibbe, Georg Philipp Telemann, Michael Davis and Sy Oliver.
Join us Saturday, September 14th at the Fulkerson Recital Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt. The concert is at 7:30 pm and tickets are $20 General, $5 for Children and Cal Poly Humboldt students with ID. You can also enjoy the concert from the comfort of your own home for $7 and watch it on our Livestream. To purchase tickets, visit tickets.humboldt.edu/calpolyhumboldt-presents and click the gold navigation button labeled Dance, Music & Theatre.
The program will begin with a performance of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Sonata in D minor, op. 5, no. 4. This piece will be performed by Gary Lewis, flute, and Michael Kibbe, oboe.
Cindy Moyer, violin, will perform Four International Encores for Solo Violin. Originally written for cello by composer Aaron Minsky, the pieces have been adapted for the violin by Daryl Silberman and Danny Seidenberg. Composer Aaron Minsky comments on the individual pieces from Four International Encores: The New Yorker “pay(s) tribute to New York City, drawing inspiration from the Harlem and Broadway music scenes of the mid 20th century. The result is a collage capturing the sophisticated swagger and witty humor of that famous American era.” Laughing Raindrops “Looks to the Far East, and is a witty exploration of the pentatonic scale. The pizzicato notes are to sounds like raindrops, and the glissando technique imitates the sound of the traditional Asian ehru.” Hu Ya’aseh Shalom “translates to “May He Make Peace” and is from a Hebrew prayer; He who makes peace in His heavens, May He make peace for us. It’s a study in contrasts between the dissonance of earthly life— represented by the low, dissonant double stops - and the peacefulness of the heavens. The juxtaposing sections are finally reconciled, leaving us in a state of peaceful meditation.” Ride of the Mongolian Horsemen is “Forged on the anvil of “heavy metal,” this piece takes you on an intense ride - yet it’s fun to play. It uses power chords and fixed finger patterns up and down the neck of the instrument. Hold on to your hat and enjoy the ride!”
Michael Kibbe, oboe, will join once again with Gary Lewis, flute, to perform one of his own compositions Duo Chisco, opus 164.
Jared Coyle, clarinet, will perform Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin for solo clarinet by Paul Harvey. Working as a freelance clarinetist in London Mr. Harvey has played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic. For 26 years he has taught clarinet and saxophone at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. Of the three etudes, the etude on It Ain’t Necessarily So was written first. It was commissioned by clarinetist Anton Weinberg as an encore piece in 1975. After its performance, the publishers Chappell & Co. commissioned the two additional pieces that make up this suite. I Got Rhythm is dedicated to Dr. James Gillespie. Dr. Gillespie is Professor of Clarinet at the University of North Texas, and has served as editor of the International Clarinet Magazine. Summertime is subtitled By Twickenham Ferry and is dedicated to Dr. Jerome Bunke, Director of the Concert Artists’ Guild of North America. Photographs Dr. Bunke has taken of swans near Twickenham ferry on the Thames served as inspiration for the atmosphere depicted throughout this suite.
Performing another of Michael Kibbe’s compositions, Duo Pastorale, opus 234, are Kibbe himself, Oboe d’amore, and Gary Lewis, flute.
Cindy Moyer, violin, and Karen Davy, viola will join together to perform Little Suite for Autumn by composer Peter Schickele. Peter was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P.D.Q. Bach. To a large degree, Schickele's music as P.D.Q. Bach has overshadowed his work as a "serious" composer. Schickele composed more than 100 original works for symphony orchestra, choral groups, chamber ensemble, voice, television and an animated adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are (which he also narrated). In the score to the Little Suite for Autumn he writes “On more than one occasion, while visiting my alma mater, Swarthmore College, my lodgings have been the home of Gil and Mary Stoat, and a homier home is hard to imagine. This Little Suite for Autumn was written as a “thank you” present—bread-and-butter notes, if you will—after one such visit in October 1979. A lot of music, writing, art and cooking has gone on in that house; neither one of them is lazy, so I thought I’d let Gil (violin) and Mary (viola) work a little (or at least play a little) for my thanks.”
The program will finish off with two performances by Chris Cox, trumpet, and Dan Aldag, trombone. The first piece is Coffee Time by Michael Davis. The duo will also perform For Dancers Only by Sy Oliver. Sy Oliver was a jazz trumpeter and arranger who wrote for Jimmie Lunceford, Ella Fitzgerald, and Tommy Dorsey. For Dancers Only was an original composition by Oliver that became the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra’s theme song. The arrangement being played was recorded by Wynton Marsalis and JJ Johnson for Johnson’s album Tangence and has been transcribed from the recording by Dan Aldag.
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