Percussion Delivers the Beat @ WSU Performing Arts Ogden: (April 2)

Percussion Delivers the Beat

Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: WSU Percussion Ensemble
When: Tuesday,  2 April 2013, 7:30 pm
Where: Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts
Cost: Free and open to the public

Weber State University Department of Performing Arts presents the WSU Percussion Ensemble on Tuesday, 2 April, at 7:30 pm in the Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts. This is a free concert. Children 8 years and older are welcome

This is always an interesting concert for young people with the variety of unusual and standard instruments on stage. There is a form of choreography as the instruments and musicians rearrange between most pieces. This will be the debut concert of new percussion faculty, Sam Bryson.

The WSU Percussion Ensemble will be playing works by Gottry, Rouse, Daughtrey, and Dvorák. One of the featured works to be performed (Ogoun Badagris, by Christopher Rouse) derives its inspiration from Haitian drumming patterns, particularly those of the Juba Dance. Ogoun Badagris is one of the most terrible and violent of all Voodoo loas (deities) and he can be appeased only by human blood sacrifice. This work was intended to be interpreted as a dance of appeasement. Another of the works is an arrangement for Marimba Orchestra by Clair Omar Musser of Largo, from the second movement of Antonín Dvorák´s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World.

For more information about this concert, contact Sam Bryson, jsambryson@gmail.com