Central New York Day of Percussion

April 24, 2010

Storer Auditorium

Onondaga Community College

(Directions)

Featuring:

Dave Mancini – Drum Set

Jeff Prosperie – Rudimental Snare Drum

Robert Paterson - Marimba

Volta Percussion Trio

River Rat Rhythm Project Steel Drum Band – Dan Hammond, director

Baldwinsville HS Indoor Drum Line

Central New York All-Star Percussion Ensemble – Ruth Cahn, conductor

OCC Percussion Ensemble

On-site Registration starts at 8:30 and continues throughout the day

(There is a $10.00 fee to pay for clinicians and expenses.)

All are welcome!

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Event Schedule

8:30 Open Registration

9:15 OCC African Percussion Ensemble

10:00 Drum Line Exhibition

Baldwinsville HS

Onondaga Community College

10:30 Robert Paterson – Marimba Clinic

12:00 Lunch – featuring the River Rat Rhythm Project Steel Drum Band – Dan Hammond, director (Sponsored by Best Western of Watertown)

1:00 Volta Percussion Trio

2:00 Jeff Prosperie – Snare Drum Clinic

3:00 Dave Mancini – Drum Set Clinic

4:30 Final Concert featuring:

CNY All-Star Percussion Ensemble

Onondaga Community College Percussion Ensemble

6:00 Show’s Over—Go Home : )

Program Notes and Details

AFRICAN PERCUSSION

OCC African Percussion Ensemble

Jen Vacanti, Vinnie Ludovico and Rob Bridge, directors

Troy Fitchette, Chris Woodruff & Zach Bolton, student directors

Kpanlogo Ga traditional

Traditional recreational and social dance of the Ga people of Ghana.  The words to the song mean: "humble yourself and the world will be humble.” 

Tenfold Layne Redmond

"Tenfold" is one of several improvisatory pieces Layne Redmond composed while exploring ecstatic trance dance rhythms from many cultures.  The rhythms in this meditative composition evolved out of the unique sound of the frame drum, the world's oldest known drum used for thousands of years in religious and trance rituals.  It is the oldest means for altering states of consciousness for spiritual purposes through sound.  "Tenfold" is based on rhythms in ten over a pulse of four and can also be performed with 2 riqs (Middle Eastern style tambourines).

Nubian Raquy Danziger

On a recent trip to Egypt, Raquy hung out with a great group of Nubians. They brought her to hear real Nubian music and here is a wonderful pattern for frame drum, dumbek and clapping that she learned and plays in her shows!

Gammala Ewe Tribe

This is a processional piece for five “gankogui” (African bells.) This piece strikes at the heart of the African aesthetic in music: it features five different rhythms that interlock and create a beautiful texture and it requires the listener to actively participate. At any given time the listener should be able to discern rhythmic groupings of 2, 3, 4, or 6 notes. Likewise, they are always more than one of these groupings happening simultaneously. It is also interesting to consider that the western concept of “one” (or a definite downbeat) is not used in this music. The cross rhythms are interesting and the various relationships, from one rhythm to another, create beautiful melodies. You as the listener can hear as much, or as little, as you wish. Enjoy!

Gota Dahomey traditional

“Gota” is a dance for wedding parties and as such is a happy dance.  It is also a somewhat flirtatious dance.  Today, Gota is performed for social entertainment. The synchronized stops and starts of the drums and dancers lend the dance an air of suspense and excitement. 

The instruments used in this piece are from the Ewe tribe in Ghana.  The bell, gankogui, is considered the engine and it supplies the power for the other players.  The kaganu is the road and it should open up for the ensemble.  The kidi (in this case paired with a lower drum) is the driver and he is responsible to maintain the engine and stay with the road.  The sogo and the atsimevu are passengers in this piece—they have various experiences and provide the “call” the stops and starts the motion. 

The drums in this ensemble are primarily played with sticks or a combination of stick and hand.  The stick strokes used are: open strokes; muffled or “dead” stokes; rim shots and hitting the shell of the drum.  The hand strokes are: bass; open; muffled; and the occasional slap. 

MARCHING PERCUSSION

Baldwinsville Indoor Percussion

Do you remember when you were in school? Who were the Jocks and Punks? The Nerds had their books, the Preps had their clothes. And why were the Band Geeks so strange?

The Baldwinsville Indoor Percussion is proud to present our 2010 show "School". The show is inspired by our lives as students and we ask that you spend a day in our shoes, or at least the next 5 minutes.

Our "School" day will be presented in 3 segments; Lectures, Exams, and Activities.

Music Selections include March of the Trolls by Edvard Grieg, 4 Sketches for Brass Quintet by Anthony Plog, and Dirty Harry by GORILLAZ.

The Baldwinsville Indoor Percussion Organization was created to provide a vehicle for students to earn, achieve, and understand beginning, intermediate and advanced Percussion skills in a performance atmosphere.

The 2010 Indoor Percussion is under the direction of Shawn Westover. Music Arranger is Dr. Robert Bridge and Visual design by Dr. Ken Magara. Instructional staff includes Mike Kearney, Ashley Trudell, Adam "Butters" Lebeau, Karen Watt and Dr. Ken Magara. Program Coordinators are Casey Vanderstouw and Kelly Cullen.

The Baldwinsville Indoor Percussion would like to dedicate their performance to their Friends, Family, Sweet Lou Dobbs, and to you the Audience.

So sit back and enjoy the Baldwinsville Indoor Percussion's 2010 production of "School".

OCC Indoor Drumline

“Lose Yourself”

Our 2010 show "Lose Yourself.." is based on life's social barriers and the constant need for each individual to find ones self. From an early age, we are placed in groups to play and learn together. However, these groups constantly evolve over time and we can easily find ourselves all alone with no direction, without warning. This is when we are all challenged to find a new path from the one we have lost...

The OCC Indoor Drumline traveled to both the Dayton and Mullica Hill WGI Regionals this year as well the continuing their participation in the New York State Percussion Circuit.

The ensemble also traveled to Dayton Ohio to compete in the WGI Indoor Percussion World Championships.

Music Arrangements by:

John Max McFarland

Visual Design:

Ron Hardin

Staff:

Dan MacCollum

Chris Ganey

Dan English

Nick Farrell

Robyn Launt

Ian Conyers

Musical Selections:

Neon - John Mayor

Hourglass - Liquid Tension Experiment

Biaxident - Liquid Tension Experiment

The OCC Indoor Percussion Ensemble would like to thank the ESM Winter Drumline, Jordan-Elbridge Winter Drumline, and Baldwinsville Winter Drumline for their help throughout the season. We would also like to thank the Brigadiers Alumni for their help and support without which we would have been unable to reach our season’s full potential!

MARIMBA

Rob Paterson

The son of two visual artists, Robert Paterson’s music is often inspired by nature, visual art, machines and American icons, and has been described in the press as “one of the major contenders in American music.” Paterson has received performances in the United States and abroad by many outstanding ensembles, including the Louisville Orchestra, Russian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, New York New Music Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, California EAR Unit, Ensemble Aleph and at the June in Buffalo Festival. His many awards include a Copland Award, the Brian Israel Prize, the Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition and twice winning the ASCAP Young Composer's Award. He has received grants from the American Composers Forum, ASCAP and the American Music Center and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Aspen Music Festival and Atlantic Center for the Arts. He received degrees from Cornell University (DMA), Indiana University (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (BM). Beginning August 2009, Robert will begin a three year Music Alive residency with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, sponsored by Meet the Composer and the League of American Orchestras. Current projects include a new, full-length orchestral opera entitled A Child Possessed with librettist David Cote, a thirty-minute work for the MAYA Trio entitled The Book of Goddesses, and Deep Blue Ocean for two pianos. Paterson is the founder and Artistic Director of the American Modern Ensemble and resides in New York City with his wife, Victoria, a professional violinist, and their son Dylan.

STEEL BAND

River Rat Rhythm Project Steel Drum Band – Dan Hammond, director (Sponsored by Best Western of Watertown)

The River Rat Rhythm Project Steel Drum Band consists of almost 50 members, ages 6 - 66, in 4 different performing groups.  Group members are children and adults from the Watertown and 1000 Islands areas.  Originally conceived in 2002 as a percussion ensemble featuring students from the Alexandria and Morristown school districts, the group changed its artistic direction when Mr. Richard Alexander, then owner of the Best Western Carriage House Inn of Watertown donated four instruments to establish a steel band.  RRRP plays traditional island tunes and contemporary arrangements for steel band.  They always bring a little sunshine with them when they play, and invite you to join them for some barefoot dancing in the sand! 

Selections from:

Air on a G String

Africa

Frankenstein

Jamaica Farewell

Kimba

Kokomo

Pan Can Jam

Sunshine Soca

Trinidad Blue Basin

Queen of the Bands

Yumbambe

Members include:

Tina Ault Jon Bassette Luann Bowman

Jake Catalina Nancy Catalina Samantha Catalina

Ruth Chiumia Charlie Commeret Jill Commeret

Betty Compeau Luke Demarse Alex Fee

Ahslynn Gilfllan Jodi Gillfillan Julia Gilfillan

John Hammond Alex Horeth Warren Horning

Wendy Horning Zachary Lanzar Anna Larkins

Cierra Maring Agnes McCarthy Merrit Meeks

Jessica Pierce Michael Porcello Shane Rasmussen

Jeremy Rasmussen Monica Reed Tanner Richards

Ed Ringwald Kayla Robertson Kylee Rosbrook

Lisa Schamback Paul Schamback Kayla Vanderpool

Caleb Way Connor Way Mackenzie Way

Jenny Whitenack Zach Whitenack Erik Wilson

Stephen Wilson Brandon Woolsey Braxton Woolsey

PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Volta Percussion Trio

The Volta Trio is a percussion ensemble based in Rochester, NY. Since coming together in 2007, The Volta Trio has been performing new and exciting music from a variety of cultures for audiences throughout the Northeast, including recent performances at Onondaga Community College and the 2010 New York City PAS Weekend of Percussion. After a successful performance of Russell Peck's percussion trio concerto, "The Glory and the Grandeur" with the SUNY Fredonia Wind Ensemble in 2009, The Volta Trio is scheduled to perform the piece with the Eastman Wind Ensemble in 2011.
Through their passionate, high-energy performances and clinics, The Volta Trio strives to educate, inspire, and entertain their audiences. The Volta Trio is also a strong advocate of new music. They are currently working on commissions with Michael Burritt, Baljinder Sekhon, Andrew S. Allen and Jennifer Bellor in an attempt to broaden and enrich the percussion trio repertoire.

Program:

Catfish Mark Applebaum

Sculpture 3 Rudiger Pawassar

Musique de Table Thierry de Mey

Pegasus Ben Wahlund

Stubernic Mark Ford

SNARE DRUM

Jeff Prosperie

SSG Jeff Prosperie is currently serving as a member of The Legendary Hellcats at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; a position he began in December of 2006. In addition to his duties as a Hellcat he also performs on occasion with the percussion ensemble, steel band, and concert band. Jeff also serves as the percussion arranger/instructor for the nationally televised Army All-American High School Marching Band. Prior to this position he served as Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Principal Percussion with the Baton Rouge Symphony, and as the percussion designer/caption-head for the World Champion Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle corps of Rockford, Illinois. Jeff is a World Snare Drum Champion and the first and only individual to capture the “triple crown” of solo competition (DCI, PAS, DCA). He actively serves as a championship level adjudicator for DCI, USSBA, WGI and as a marching percussion committee member for PAS. Jeff earned his B.M.Ed from LSU, his MM from The University of North Texas, and has completed all course work for the DMA from UNT. SSG Prosperie has performed, presented clinics, and adjudicated throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan as well as PASIC, TMEA, TBA, and The Mid-West Band and Orchestra Convention. Jeff’s compositions and solo performances can be seen in his book/DVD “Aptitude- A Conversation in snare soloing” published by Drop 6. This publication received the very rare rating of a perfect “10” from Modern Drummer Magazine declaring it a classic. Jeff can also be seen as a featured artist on the recent DVD “The Rudiment Project” by the Percussive Arts Society as well as several performances on YouTube. Jeff is a performing artist endorsed by Pearl/Adams, Sabian, Innovative Percussion, and Evans.

DRUM SET

Dave Mancini

Drum set/percussion artist Dave Mancini has toured and performed with many of the premiere artists in the music business, including legendary trumpet player and former Tonight Show Band leader Doc Severinsen, Maynard Ferguson, Maureen McGovern, Eddie Daniels, Urbie Green, Marvin Stamm, Jeff Tyzik, Allen Vizzutti, Don Menza, Bill Dobbins, the Toshiko Akiyoshi Lew Tabackin Big Band, Dee Daniels, New York Voices, the Five By Design vocal group, Jennifer Holiday, Ann Hampton Callaway, Rosemary Clooney, Joe Williams, and Bob Hope. He has also shared the bandstand with numerous jazz greats at New York City's famous jazz nightclub, Eddie Condon's.

As a percussionist, Dave Mancini has performed with Chuck Mangione, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, and Johnny Mathis, as well as in the pit orchestra for a number of musical theatre productions. He has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, from 1971 - 1981 was a member of the percussion section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and was a xylophone soloist on the Eastman Marimba Band album, Nola. As a drum set/percussion artist performing on symphony orchestra pops concerts with Doc Severinsen, Jeff Tyzik, Maureen McGovern, Dee Daniels, and Five By Design, Dave Mancini has performed with the majority of symphony orchestras in the United States and Canada. These include the Boston Pops, Chicago Symphony, Philly Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, New York Pops, Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Milwaukee Symphony. Dave Mancini's recordings include Salt Peanuts and One On One with saxophonist Denis DiBlasio, Land of Make Believe and Tarantella with Chuck Mangione, Storm with Maynard Ferguson, Rogers and Leonhart with bassist Jay Leonhart, and recordings with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Dave has also recorded the Bartok "Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion" with his teacher John Beck, for Musical Heritage Society. In addition, Dave has played drum set and percussion on several movie soundtracks, radio and television commercials, and television themes. As a composer, Dave Mancini has numerous published compositions for solo percussion and percussion ensemble. He has also had compositions performed for symphony orchestra, concert band, solo flute and percussion ensemble, and cello quartet with percussion and string bass. Dave Mancini is also the author of Drum Set Fundamentals, as well as a number of articles on drum set techniques, and careers in the music business.

Dave has been involved in community music outreach programs, and for three years was the instructor for a music outreach class at the Eastman School of Music, for which he wrote the
syllabus. Dave Mancini is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he was also awarded the Performer's Certificate. In addition, he is an artist/clinician for Yamaha Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, and Vic Firth drumsticks and mallets. As an artist/clinician, Dave has made numerous appearances at universities, high schools, and junior high schools throughout the United States and Canada, where he performs as a guest soloist and presents hands-on workshops and master classes for the students.

FINAL CONCERT

Ruth Cahn

In 2001 Ruth was named Jack Frank Instructor of Percussion in the Eastman Community Music School and Summer Session Director of the Eastman School of Music. She also currently serves as Chair of the ECMS Wind, Brass, and Percussion Department, and is founder and director of the Music Horizon Program for talented high school age musicians. As a performer, Ruth was a full-time member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for 32 years and served on many committees. She has also performed with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Opera, the Society for Chamber Music, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Breath Percussion Ensemble in Finland, Canadian Brass Spectacular, and she is a frequent recitalist. As a Musician in Residence, Ruth has worked as an individual artist in the Rochester City School District for 27 years, presenting sequential programs that link music to academic curriculum. She has also taught a Musician in Residence course in the Arts Leadership Program at the Eastman School of Music. Ruth holds a BM from the Eastman School of Music with Academic Distinction in the areas of Applied Percussion and Music Education.

CNY All-Star Percussion Ensemble
Ruth Cahn, director

Worlds of Percussion

Aqualani                              John Gibson

Atenteben                              Bob Becker

Hand Drumming Ensembles           C.A Grosso
     Rhythm Chant 11WP          

Ragtime Drummer                    James Lent/arr. William Cahn
     Snare drum soloist:  Rob Bridge


CNY All-Star Percussion Ensemble

Devan Carter- East Syracuse-Minoa
Harrison Dole- Westhill
Alex Haima- Baldwinsville
Brianna Hoige- Baldwinsville
Tom James- Oswego
Elizabeth Kiehl- Central Square
Keenan Le Blanc- Morrisville
Kayleigh Moyer- Phoenix
Justin Mulvaney- Baldwinsville
Jeffrey Murray- Oswego
Dan Putnam- Baldwinsville
Jessica Reitz- Central Square
Leigh Anne Roosa- East Syracuse-Minoa
Jimmy Spagnola- East Syracuse-Minoa
Bryan Swierczek- Marcellus
Aaron Walters- Baldwinsville

OCC Percussion Ensemble

Jennifer Vacanti, Vinnie Ludovico and Rob Bridge, directors

Splendid Wood Jennifer Higdon

Head Talk Mark Ford

Dr. Bridge's Home Page

The following companies provided support and door prizes to today’s event!

Innovative Percussion

Percussive Arts Society

Zildjian Cymbals

Sabian Cymbals

Yamaha Drums

Onondaga Community College