Brevard Community Band will present its second concert of 2022 on Sunday, Aug. 14, at 3 p.m. in Straus Hall at Brevard Music Center.
The program, entitled “Pomp and Percussion,” will include Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March, Opus 39, Number 4.
This is not the familiar “Pomp and Circumstance” from graduation ceremonies.
That is “Pomp and Circumstance March, Opus 39, Number 1.”
In addition, the band will perform selections from Rogers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I,” Mendelssohn’s Overture for Band, composed by Felix Mendelssohn at age 15, a march entitled “Pieces of Eight,” containing themes from Beethoven’s Eight Symphony, and other selections.
Our featured soloist, percussionist Jason DeCristofaro, will perform the first and third movements of Rosauro’s Vibraphone Concerto.
The Concerto for Vibraphone and Orchestra was written in Santa Maria, Brazil, in 1995 and 1996 and is dedicated to Evelyn Glennie.
The work was originally written for vibraphone and chamber orchestra (one flute, one oboe, one clarinet, one bassoon, two horns, percussion and strings).
The concerto was premiered with piano reduction during the 1996 Japan Percussion Festival in Tokyo, and the orchestral version was first presented at the composers’ festival ENCOMPOR in Porto Alegre, Brazil, later that year performed by the composer and accompanied by the Orquestra Unisinos under the direction of Maestro Jose Pedro Boessio.
The first arrangement for wind ensemble was made by Rodrigo Morte and the actual arrangement is by the composer.
The work is written in three movements and has a bridge connecting the last two movements without pause.
The first and last movements are constructed over a mixed scale that combines lydian and mixolydian modes, which are quite often found in the folk music of northeastern Brazil.
The first movement develops from a chromatic theme, presented in a slow tempo in the opening measures of the work, and represents the constant life struggle of the poor people in the dry lands of northeastern Brazil.
The third movement depicts the flight of seagulls, which was inspired by time spent by the composer at Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, while watching a breathtaking view of the sun setting over the Arpoador rock formations.
Percussive Notes magazine calls the concerto “an excellent showcase for the solo vibist, and, like the Marimba Concerto, another excellent work that audiences will find enjoyable and exciting.”
DeCristofaro is an active music educator, multi-instrumentalist and composer/arranger based in Asheville.
He is an instructor of music at Warren Wilson College, where he teaches applied percussion, applied piano, various jazz and improvisation ensembles, and music theory.
A published composer with C. Alan, HaMaR, Per Mus, and Tapspace Publications, his concert works have been performed in China, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, the Philippines, Sweden and throughout the United States.
The winner of the 2011 Yamaha/Percussive Arts Society Terry Gibbs Competition (an international scholarship competition for jazz vibraphonists), DeCristofaro has performed nationally and internationally at many jazz festivals.
He is in demand as a clinician, having presented clinics, masterclasses and performances on jazz improvisation and performance at many colleges and universities.
He has also presented at Harvard University for the International Journal of Arts and Sciences (IJAS), Virginia Tech for the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy (CHEP), and Black Mountain College Museum (Centennial Celebration of John Cage), and authored articles for Percussive Notes and Journal of Teaching and Education.
He holds a doctorate in music education from Boston University, a master of music in performance from UNC-School of the Arts, a master of liberal arts and sciences from UNC-Asheville, and a bachelor’s in music performance from Brevard College.
Tickets are $10 for adults and free to students aged 18 or younger.
Tickets will be available at the concert and they are also available in advance at Highland Books in Brevard.
For more information, go to www.brevardcommunityband.org or call (828) 883-9452.
Concertgoers are requested to wear masks for this performance.
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