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MUSIC SERIESMusic at the Museum
The Music at the Museum Series was founded in 2000 through the efforts of the Huntington Museum of Art, Janet Ensign Bromley, and the Marshall University Music Department. In 2002, the Museum instituted a residency naming Victoria Bragin as its first Music Artist-in-Residence with the responsibility of performing as well as operating the Series. The purpose of Music at the Museum is to provide to the community excellence in musical performance, a performance venue for musicians and composers, and to provide children the opportunity to experience the transcendent joy of music.
All concerts take place in Grace Rardin Doherty Auditorium. Admission is free.
Since programs and times are subject to change, please call the Museum (529-2701).The 2004-2005 Season
Three concerts celebrating
Black History MonthThe Huntington Museum of Art collaborates with jazz studies faculty from Marshall University's Music Department in celebrating Black HIstory Month. A series of three Sunday concerts in February will feature music by American jazz greats. All concerts are free and refreshments will be served immediately following the concert.
Feb. 6, 2:30 pm: The first concert features the guitar duo of Matt Dunne and Mark Zanter. They will explore various guitar styles including swing and bop. Included in the program are such standards as "Solar" by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck's "In your Own Sweet Way," and Thelonius Monk's "Ask Me Now."
Feb. 13, 2:30 pm: Jazz pianist Jay Flippin and percussionist Steve Hall will join guitarist Mark Zanter in exploring the African and Afro-Cuban roots of jazz. Among the pieces to be performed are Juan Tizol's "Perdido." Sonny Rollins' "Oleo" and Duke Ellington's "Things Ain't What They Used to Be."
Feb. 27, 2:30 pm: Bluetrane Jazz Ensemble. Marshall University's Bluetrane Jazz Ensemble returns to present concert jazz from the 30's to the 50's.
The rich sounds of the saxophone, brass and rhythm instruments are combined as Bluetrane swings from big band to hard bop in music that is sure to please. Bluetrane consists of Ed Bingham (saxophone), Marshall Onofrio and Martin Saunders (trumpets), Mike Stroeher (trombone), Matt Dunne (guitar), Mark Zanter (bass), and Ben Miller (percussion).
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Concert in conjunction with the
"Graphics by Twentieth-Century Masters"
exhibition
Sunday, March 20, 2:30 pm
Music Artist-in-Residence Victoria Bragin will be joined by Karen Becker, cello professor at Universiy of Nebraska, Lincoln, Wendell Dobbs, flute professor at Marshall University,and Linda Dobbs, voice professor at Marshall University, in a performance of twentieth-century chamber music works. "Vox Balaenae " (Voice of the Whale) by Pulitzer-prize winning composer and West Virginia native George Crumb will be among the compositions to be performed.
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MARK ZANTER, COMPOSER
Sunday, April 24, 2:00 pm
Mark Zanter, who appears as performer during all three February concerts celebrating Black History Month, wears a different hat as the composer of works to be performed in a concert devoted to his compositions. A perfect segue to the 20th-century chamber music concert of March 20th, this concert will include the premiere of some of Zanter's compositions. In "Elemental Spiral" and its prelude, "Lambdoma," dancer Donald Laney joins musicians Ed Bingham (sax), Sölen Dikener (cello), and Steve Hall (percussion) in a piece that integrates body movement, dance and music. This piece is the focus of a grant from the West Virginia Commission for the Arts which is funded partly by the National Endowment for the Arts. Also on the program are a saxophone solo, a piano solo, and a solo for vibraphone.
Dr. Mark Zanter is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Marshall University.
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Concert Series for the 2003-2004 Season may be viewed here:
http://www.hmoa.org/pages/music2003-2004.html
