Cool Notes & Hot Tunes features Renaissance Center music ensembles Tuesday
Release Date: 4/23/2008. Expired: 4/29/2008
A little jazz, a little swing, some blues and even a little opera will fill the Performance Hall of The Renaissance Center when the center’s music ensembles present their spring concert Tuesday, April 29.
Cool Notes & Hot Tunes will feature The Renaissance Center’s Community Concert Band, Community Jazz Ensemble and Community Jazz Combo in a 7 p.m. concert. Tickets are $5.
All three ensembles are free participation groups that rehearse weekly at The Renaissance Center and feature community members who enjoy the opportunity to play with fellow musicians. The ensembles are directed by Jeffery Martin, director of music technology at the center.
Tuesday’s concert kicks off with the Community Concert Band presenting a selection that ranges from a march to Slovenian folk songs to opera.
The program includes Bandology, a march arrangement by Eric Osterling first performed in the 1960s.
“Its harmonies and interesting fanfare rhythms along with its lyrical trio section make this piece one of the all-time favorites in concert band literature,” said Martin.
The band follows that with a trio of Slovenian folk songs arranged by Ralph Ford. A lively opening folk dance is contrasted with a solemn and expressive folk song, which gives way to a good-humored dance that accelerates to a festive finish.
Towards a New Horizon by Steve Reineke was commissioned by the city of Shoreview, Minn., to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding and it premiered in 2007 under the composer’s direction.
The Concert Band wraps up its portion of the show with a suite from Bizet’s opera Carmen, the story of a fickle gypsy girl in 1820s Spain.
The Renaissance Center Community Jazz Ensemble takes the stage with a classic Duke Ellington piece: It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing). That will be followed with some classic Memphis blues with the hit instrumental Green Onions, made famous by Booker T. and the MGs (Booker T. Jones and the Memphis Group).
The jazz ensemble wraps up with Jada by Bob Carleton and a Blues Brothers Revue arranged from music from The Blues Brothers movie by Roger Holmes.
The Renaissance Center’s new Community Jazz Combo closes out the show with John Coltrane’s Impressions, This Masquerade written by Leon Russell and a hit for George Benson, a classic Rogers/Hart tune My Romance and The Girl from Ipanema.
The Renaissance Center’s music ensembles rehearse weekly on Tuesday nights during the spring and fall semesters. Participation is free but members must provide their own instruments. Musicians of all skill levels are welcome.
To learn more about The Renaissance Center’s music ensembles, contact Martin at (615) 740-5563 or jeffery.martin@rcenter.org. To purchase tickets for Tuesday’s night’s concert, call (615) 740-5601.
The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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