BGSU’s Doctorate in Contemporary Music will present Discover Music At Arlyn’s Good Beer Sunday, Dec. 4, at 6 p.m. featuring a mixture of sounds that will challenge and excite listeners. The music varies from melodic to atonal and shows the increased use of solo performers utilizing technology.
Among the pieces to be performed will be:
• Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIIb for soprano saxophone explores the different timbres and sounds the instrument can make, erupting and expanding outwards from a single note. Performed by Garrett Evans on soprano saxophone
• Valerie Coleman’s “Danza de la Mariposa” is according to the program notes “a melodic and rhythmic tone poem that depicts the dance and flight of a South American butterfly. This piece moves between syncopated dance-like sections and a slower Yaravi, or Peruvian lament song.” Performed on flute by Shannon Lotti
Other pieces on the program:
- “Swerve” for cello and loop pedal composed by Jessica Meyer.
- “I will not be sad in this world” for flute & electronics composed by Eve Beglarian.
- “morning star & O-O-O (Queenside Castle)” for oboe composed by Yaz Lancaster.
- “Bone Needles,” a voice duet (with pre-recorded voice) composed by Gilda Lyons
The concert is part of a new series by the DMA program. The goal of the series is to bring a high level of a variety of contemporary concert music to the community at local venues. The series will continue in the spring semester.
