The 2000 International Carillon Concert Series brings a guest from down under to GVSU Sunday.
Australia's Suzanne Magassy has performed recitals at the National Carillon in Canberra, continuously since 1980,and been guest recitalist at Sydney University carillon.
She has been a regular recitalist internationally for many years, and in 1997 became the first foreigner to gain 'Carillonneur' status in the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America. Suzanne taught music at High School and college, eventually working part time with disabled students.
Her program for Sunday follows:
- Prelude no. 1 in G Johann Sebastian BachJuly 2000 is the 250th anniversary of J.S.Bach's death.
- Summertime from Porgy and Bess George GershwinComtemporary Carillon
- Per la Morte di un Secolo (For the Death of a Century)-------Christopher Lyndon-GeeThis piece was composed in New York for the above carillonneur's midnight recital on New Year's Eve at the National Carillon in Canberra. The music is based on traditional peals and chimes but written in contemporary style. Two motifs alternate ,the piece ending with a descending tone/semitone passage to the lowest bell of the carillon,which sounds 12 times as a farewell to the old century.British-born Christopher Lyndon-Gee is an internationally recognised composer/conductor who resides variously in New York, Canberra and Amsterdam.
- Largo from Concerto in D for Lute Antonin Vivaldi
- Movie MusicTiptoe through the Tulips from Gold Diggers of Broadway Joe Burke's Gold Diggers was one of the first color-splashed movie musicals,1928.
- Romance from The Gadfly Dimitri ShostakovitchBetter known as a classical composer for the orchestra, Shostakovitch was also a prolific and very successful writer for the cinema. The Gadfly Suite, opus 97a, for the 1955 movie, is full of heroic and romantic themes, highlighting his talent for wonderful orchestral effects.
- Hello Dolly Jerry HermanArr. Eric Vandervoort
- Folk CarillonAustralian Prelude Leen 't HartLeen 't Hart was head of the Netherlands Carillon School when he composed this music for the above carillonneur to play during the Australian Bicentenniel celebrations in 1988. It includes extracts from the two 'Waltzing Matilda' tunes of Australian folklore.
- Tom Blackman's Waltz AustralianPastime with good company attributed to King Henry VIIIarr. John Gordon
- FinaleA Word or Two from the (Other) Kings--Elvis and Nat
