The Swarthmore College Wind Ensemble is holding its annual fall program on Saturday, November 17th at 8:00 pm, located at the Lang Concert Hall.<\/p>\n
The Wind Ensemble is a Tri-College group, welcoming student musicians from both Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College. The ensemble is directed by Professor Andrew Hauze \u201804.<\/p>\n
The repertoire for this concert will feature songs originating from different places around the world. The songs include Percy Grainger’s\u00a0Irish Tune from County Derry<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Shepherd’s Hey<\/em>, Chen Yi’s\u00a0Suite from China West<\/em>, Frank Ticheli’s arrangement of\u00a0Shenandoah<\/em>, and Darius Milhaud’s classic\u00a0Suite Fran\u00e7aise.<\/em><\/p>\n When Hauze plans for each Wind Ensemble concert, he must take into consideration student enrichment, audience reception, and performance cohesiveness.<\/p>\n \u201cEach semester in Wind Ensemble, I try to pick pieces across a range of styles, moods, and technical challenges that will be enriching to work on for the whole semester, but also make a satisfying concert experience for the audience,\u201d Hauze said.<\/p>\n For this fall\u2019s repertoire, Hauze put together an eclectic group of pieces that share a common origin in traditional folk music.<\/p>\n \u201cI had been looking at a number of these pieces for awhile, and I realized that it would be fun to program them all together, as they are all settings or reinterpretations of traditional folk songs (from, respectively, Ireland, England, China, America, and France),\u201d Hauze said. \u201cThough they’re all based on tunes that would be sung in everyday situations over hundreds of years, the ways that these tunes are approached by each composer are remarkably different!\u201d<\/p>\n Out of the repertoire, Hauze is excited to explore one specific piece due to its challenging nature.<\/p>\n \u201cI am particularly excited for the audience to hear Chen Yi’s\u00a0Suite from China West<\/em>, a relatively recent piece (written in 2005) by the distinguished Chinese American composer Chen Yi,\u201d Hauze said. \u201cIt has been a huge challenge to put together, but the group is sounding great, and the sounds that Dr. Chen finds in this piece are extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n The decision to include Chen Yi\u2019s\u00a0Suite from China West<\/em>\u00a0is partly influenced by the big presence of traditional Chinese music on Swarthmore\u2019s campus. Hauze attributes this presence to the Swarthmore College Chinese Music Ensemble, which is led by colleague Professor Lei Ouyang Bryant.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Wind Ensemble is a bit larger than previous years, composed of thirty-nine members. Additionally, six professional musicians will be joining the student musicians during the concert.<\/p>\n \u201cWorking with the Wind Ensemble is always a joy, and this semester has been particularly fun because we’ve had a larger group than normal and the energy has been so lively and positive,\u201d Hauze said. \u201cThe students have worked extremely hard to prepare a challenging program, and we’re really excited to share it with everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n David Chan ’19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Swarthmore College Wind Ensemble is holding its annual fall program on Saturday, November 17th at 8:00 pm, located at the Lang Concert Hall. The Wind Ensemble is a Tri-College group, welcoming student musicians from both Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College. The ensemble is directed by Professor Andrew Hauze \u201804. The repertoire for this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7397,"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\/7523"}],"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=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/7524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}