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U of Michigan Percussion Ensemble performs The Persistence of Past Chemistries on December 2
By admin | November 21, 2007
On Sunday December 2, 2007 at 3PM at the McIntosh Theatre of the University of Michigan, The University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble, directed by Joe Gramley, will present their semester-end concert called American Tradition and Innovation, featuring seminal works that demonstrate the twentieth-century rise of percussion as a chamber-music art as well as the ever-more-global focus of American classical percussion in our time. Along with three works by John Cage and Lou Harrison that brought an array of never-before-heard instruments from around the world to the American stage, the Ensemble will perform a rock etude (co-written by Michigan’s own Michael Udow) that marries American percussion and the modern marimba to a range of vocal traditions spanning several continents. The program is rounded out with two other unique pieces: Steve Reich’s minimalist composition “Six Marimbas” and Charles Griffin’s “The Persistence of Past Chemistries,” written entirely for wood instruments.
PROGRAM: Cage/Harrison - Double Music; Cage - Third Construction;
Harrison - Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra;
Udow/Douglas - Rock Etude No. 7;
Reich - Six Marimbas;
Griffin - The Persistence of Past Chemistries.
Free - no tickets required
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