Youngstown State University
Percussion Ensemble
Dr. Glenn Schaft - Director
Tetsuya Takeno - Assistant Director
17 February 2010
Butler Institute of American Art
12:15PM
Program:
Gainsborough (1974) Thomas
Gauger
I.
II.
III.
Tom Gauger was born
in Wheaton Illinois and studied Percussion at the University of Illinois. He
has performed with the Oklahoma City Orchestra, the Boston Symphony and the
Boston Pops and has held teaching positions at Oklahoma University and Oklahoma
City University, Boston University and the Boston University Tanglewood
Institute.
In addition to his business of manufacturing drumsticks and percussion
accessories, he composes and publishes his own music for percussion.
Implosion (1982) Mantle
Hood (1918-2005)
The basic principles of composition are derived from
practices in the island of Bali, Indonesia. The vibraphone plays the principal melody, which is
continually elaborated by the interlocking parts of the marimba and two
xylophones.
Concerto for Marimba (1986 )
Ney
Rosauro (b. 1952)
I.
Saudacao (Greeting)
II.
Lamento
III.
Danca
IV.
Despedida (Farewell)
The Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra was written in June and July of
1986 in Brasília and is dedicated to the composer's son Marcelo. The work was
originally written for marimba and string orchestra and was premiered in the
USA the same year with the Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra in Wisconsin.
Tetsuya Takeno - soloist
Personnel:
Graduate:
Tetsuya Takeno Kanagawa-Ken,
Japan
David Blon North
Huntington, PA
Senior:
Kevin Rabold, Pittsburgh, PA
Junior:
Joshua
Colson, Transfer, PA
Dan Danch, New Wilmington, PA
Matthew
Hayes, Coshocton, OH
Robert Young, Austintown, OH
Eric Zalenski, Bloomingdale, OH
Sophomore:
Dustin
May, Westerville, OH
Gary
White, Warren, OH
Freshmen:
Keith Born, Bethel Park, PA
Dylan Kollat North
Jackson, OH
Kelvin Newell - Warren, OH
Moriah Placer Warren,
OH
Special thanks to Avedis Zildijian, Remo, ProMark. Dynasty, and Black Swamp
Percussion for their product and
artist support.