David Gluck
GVSU Symphony Orchestra & Guest Artists
When
Thursday, March 4, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Where
Louis Armstrong Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Allendale Campus
Category
Music & Dance
Description
Under the direction of Henry Duitman, the Grand Valley Symphony Orchestra will present a varied program featuring two outstanding guest artists: composer/percussionist David Gluck, and GVSU associate professor and trumpeter Richard Stoelzel.
As a founding member of the popular group, Rhythm & Brass, Gluck has toured the world as percussionist extraordinaire and has been acclaimed as a virtuoso mallet performer and drummer. Currently he is chair of the studio composition department at SUNY-Purchase.
"Nagaina¿s Nemesis," an innovative work by Gluck, features the composer playing several percussion instruments as well as the Australian didgeridoo. Nagaina is the vicious cobra who is finally killed by the mongoose, Riki-Tiki-Tavi, in Rudyard Kipling¿s "Jungle Book."
Stoelzel is a well-known performer and teacher who has produced many award-winning students and ensembles. Noted as a performer of national acclaim, Stoelzel also put GVSU on the worldwide musical map with his annual International Trumpet Seminar.
Concluding the first half of the concert, Stoelzel will perform the hauntingly beautiful trumpet solo, "The Hollow Men," by Vincent Persichetti. Based on the poem by T. S. Elliot, this lyrical solo is accompanied only by strings.
Featured orchestral work on the program will be the monumental tone poem, "Death and Transfiguration," by Richard Strauss. An extended programmatic work, the music vividly describes the death of an artist who searched his entire life for the great artistic ideal and only after his death, in a transfigured state, does he finally realizes this ideal.
Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (616) 331-3484 or visit www.gvsu.edu/music.