{"id":14799,"date":"2008-05-01T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/2008\/05\/01\/percussion-ensemble-presents-may-7-concert\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:55:11","slug":"percussion-ensemble-presents-may-7-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/01\/percussion-ensemble-presents-may-7-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Percussion Ensemble presents May 7 concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> -The Bemidji State University Percussion Ensemble will present rhythms from around the world as it hosts its spring concert at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 7, in the Thompson Recital Hall of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. Admission is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the program will be a wide variety of music from the classical tradition of Bach&rsquo;s &ldquo;Jesu, Joy of Man&rsquo;s Desiring&rdquo; to the more eclectic sounds of &ldquo;Sambach,&rdquo; which takes a bit of Bach&rsquo;s music and puts it into a samba groove.<\/p>\n<p>Also featured will be &ldquo;Beach Song,&rdquo; an unpublished piece from the film &ldquo;True Romance,&rdquo; transcribed and arranged by senior art education major <strong>Zach Zimny<\/strong> of Esko, Minn., and <strong>Eric Sundeen<\/strong>, director of the BSU Percussion Ensemble.  In addition, sophomore music education major Chris Konecne from Bemidji, Minn., will play a vibe solo by composer Ney Rosauro.<\/p>\n<p>In a guest appearance, the Bemidji area rock band Pelican Railroad will collaborate with the Percussion Ensemble to present the Dire Straights classic &ldquo;Sultans of Swing.&rdquo; The piece will feature Bemidji State alumnus and Jazz II director <strong>Craig Haugen<\/strong> on guitar.<\/p>\n<p>The Percussion Ensemble, now in its 11th year, focuses on classic and contemporary literature. The ensemble concentrates on learning music through reading, technique, listening skills and kinetic memory.<\/p>\n<p>Sundeen, BSU adjunct instructor of percussion studies, is in his fifth music season as the Percussion Ensemble director.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Department of Music at (218) 755-2915.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR YOUR CALENDAR<br>\nMay 7 <\/strong>&ndash; 7:30 p.m. &ndash; Percussion Ensemble concert presented by Bemidji State University. Location: Thompson Recital Hall of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex, BSU campus. Admission: free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. -The Bemidji State University Percussion Ensemble will present rhythms from around the world as it hosts its spring concert at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 7, in the Thompson Recital Hall of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. Admission is free of charge. Included in the program will be a wide variety of music from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44444,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions\/44444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}