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What's Happening at Weatherford College
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Friday, 13 November 2009 12:22 |
Lovers of jazz, classical or the time-honored will find three upcoming musical events to their liking at Weatherford College. Free concerts, each starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Alkek Fine Arts Center, are scheduled:
- Nov. 17 - WC Jazz Band "...and something blues," concert. "The title is intended to suggest the prevailing influence of the Blues on the jazz idiom," said Cal Lewiston, fine arts department chair. "Inasmuch as jazz essentially developed from roots in African rhythmic emphasis on syncopation and European melodic/harmonic structures, the over-riding stylistic influences are the vocal inflections, call-and-response phrasing, and organizational forms derived from the basic 12-bar blues, marches, and 32-bar song form inherent in an American folk music of the South, the Blues.
- Nov. 20 - "Duo Azul - American in Paris," piano recital bu Hyeyoung Song and Amy Gustafson - "The 'blue' of Duo Azul reflects the Blues influence of the repertoire to be performed by the two artists, especially in the pieces by Joplin, Rzewski, and Gershwin, notwithstanding the nationality of the second composer and the title of the latter's contribution to the program," said Lewiston.
The sub-title, "American in Paris," is represented by the three Debussy works which, combined with an oblique reference to Gershwin's work by that name, account for the theme of the program. Additionally, as the foremost American representative of Impressionism, Griffes' sonata is demonstrates that composer's influence by French contemporaries including Debussy, Ravel, and Milhaud. Sadly, Griffes shared with Gershwin the moribund fate of a premature passing, Griffes at 35 and Gershwin at 38.
- Nov. 30 - Parker County Community Choir - annual presentation of selections from Handel's "Messiah"
Each event is free. Doors open at 7 p,m, For more information, contact, 817-598-6458.
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