{"id":7452,"date":"2018-04-13T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:37:10","slug":"swarthmore-wind-ensembles-spring-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/2018\/04\/13\/swarthmore-wind-ensembles-spring-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarthmore Wind Ensemble’s Spring Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having survived four March winter storms and a few power outages, the Swarthmore College\u00a0Music<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Dance<\/span>\u00a0Department is now ready to host its series of spring concerts, featuring students from a variety of classes and\u00a0music<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0dance<\/span>\u00a0groups. One of these is the Wind Ensemble Concert, featuring over thirty members from the student body, faculty, and Swarthmore community.<\/p>\n

Wind Ensemble is one of the largest\u00a0music<\/span>\u00a0courses at Swarthmore, with over 30 members this semester. It is also one of the oldest, ongoing since the 1980s. Andrew Hauze, a Swarthmore professor trained as a conductor, pianist, and organist, has taught the class every semester for the past seven years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest challenge from semester to semester is figuring out who is playing, what their level is, and finding\u00a0music<\/span>\u00a0that everyone can play together,\u201d says Hauze. \u201c…I love that it brings students together from all across campus. I get to hear about what they’re doing in their courses, and meet students from all departments.”<\/p>\n

The Wind Ensemble is open to students from all class years and majors who play wind, brass, or percussion instruments. As a Tri-Co class, the Ensemble often has at least a few students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford, in addition to faculty and members from the local community. As Hauze explains, \u201cif we have room, we open the Ensemble to community members, especially those who play instruments we don’t have in that year\u2019s ensemble. It\u2019s really nice – [students and community members] really get to know each other and many of the faculty and community members keep coming year after year, for over a decade, so there\u2019s this intergenerational dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n

This semester\u2019s Wind Ensemble features two faculty members, Gilbert Rose (Classics) on the trumpet and Carr Everbach (Engineering) on the trombone, in addition to four community members. The Ensemble features a variety of instruments and\u00a0musicians<\/span>, ranging from six clarinetists and flutists to a pianist, and one player of the less-known euphonium (a baritone horn). Regarding Wind Ensembles in general, Professor Hauze notes, \u201cone of the strange things about Wind Ensembles as a group is that it only began to coalesce in the 20th century. So if we want to play older\u00a0music<\/span>\u00a0it needs to be arrangements not originally intended for this group. I like to get a mix of pieces originally written for these instruments and pieces that have been arranged. The Ensemble always plays together, for every piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Saturday\u2019s concert will feature seven pieces, divided into two sections, mainly religious and spiritual works. To honor the centennial of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, one of the most famous American composers in\u00a0musical<\/span>history, the Ensemble will perform his \u201cProfanation,\u201d a complex piece whose meter changes with almost every measure.<\/p>\n

Hauze\u2019s personal favorite in the first section is \u201cO God Unseen,\u201d by Philadelphia-born composer Vincent Persichetti. This will be Hauze\u2019s first time conducting the piece.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Persichetti] was this very famous composer, with a lot of weight in the\u00a0musical<\/span>\u00a0community. But at the same time he was interested in writing for ordinary people, so a lot of his wind\u00a0music<\/span>\u00a0is in that vein,\u201d explains Hauze. \u201cBut at the same time he is very serious, this is a brooding and haunting piece. The\u00a0musical<\/span>\u00a0language is pretty complex, but playable by a college group. It’s been very challenging but super fun to learn!\u201d<\/p>\n

The second half of the concert will be more lighthearted, and focused on storytelling. Hauze is especially fond of the Overture of 1930s Broadway\u00a0musical<\/span>\u00a0Of Thee I Sing, composed by George Gershwin. \u201cThe Gershwin one is very close to my heart, because I think he is really fantastic but not as well known today. It’s also an arrangement I made 5 years ago, and because it is an overture it has fragments of\u00a0music<\/span>\u00a0from all over the show, but they were blended in a way that’s really ingenious,\u201d says Hauze.<\/p>\n

The Wind Ensemble Concert is held Saturday, April 14, at 8pm in Lang Concert Hall. Students and community members are all welcome to attend.<\/p>\n

Emilie Hautemont ’20<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having survived four March winter storms and a few power outages, the Swarthmore College\u00a0Music\u00a0and\u00a0Dance\u00a0Department is now ready to host its series of spring concerts, featuring students from a variety of classes and\u00a0music\u00a0and\u00a0dance\u00a0groups. One of these is the Wind Ensemble Concert, featuring over thirty members from the student body, faculty, and Swarthmore community. Wind Ensemble is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}