{"id":2139,"date":"2009-04-27T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:44:25","slug":"20090430-percussion-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2009\/04\/27\/20090430-percussion-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"Percussion Ensemble presents April 30 concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> &mdash; The Bemidji State University Percussion Ensemble will present a concert of rhythmic grooves from around the world as it hosts its spring concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 30, in the Thompson Recital Hall of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. Admission is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the program will a variety of grooves in different time signatures and from different genres. The concert will open with an energetic traditional hand-drumming piece from Africa featuring just three instruments: conga drums, cowbells and claves. Other pieces will range from the traditional rhythms of &ldquo;One Eyed Jack&rdquo; and the recognizable &ldquo;Funeral March for a Marionette,&rdquo; to the more eclectic &ldquo;Sacrificial Rite,&rdquo; which features lion roars, bowing on gongs, whisper and vocal techniques and eight deep drums in intense groove.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting a solo performance will be senior Lee Foster of Menasha, Wis., on timpani in Elliott Carter&rsquo;s &ldquo;Canaries,&rdquo; a piece of polyrhythmic ideas and metric modulation. Also appearing in a solo will be senior Doug Quance of Bertha, Minn., on marimba in Ney Rosauro&rsquo;s &ldquo;Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The concert will conclude with &ldquo;Brazilian Samba,&rdquo; to which the audience is welcome to join in a traditional dance.<\/p>\n<p>The Percussion Ensemble, now in its 12th 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 sixth 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>\nApril 30<\/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. &mdash; The Bemidji State University Percussion Ensemble will present a concert of rhythmic grooves from around the world as it hosts its spring concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 30, in the Thompson Recital Hall of the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. Admission is free of charge. Included in the program will a variety [&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-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44196,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/44196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}