The Spring semester has officially kicked off at Arkansas State University, and it promises to be an exciting one! The percussion program will present a full slate of performances in the coming months, beginning with Dr. Graiser’s solo faculty recital on January 24that 7:30pm in the Fowler Center’s Riceland Hall. The program, titled “Then and Now,” features several historically-significant works presented side-by-side with their contemporary descendants. The program will include marimba transcriptions of keyboard works by J.S. Bach, a new solo arrangement of selections from Johanna Beyer’s unpublished three-movement “Percussion Suite” (1933, originally for percussion quintet), Stuart Saunders Smith’s “Three Winter Carols” (2011) for glockenspiel and spoken text, a movement from James Beale’s “Three Pieces for Vibraphone, Op. 27” (1959, the first known classical solo for the instrument), and two original compositions by Dr. Graiser (“We Measure In Victims” [2015] for harp and multi-percussion, and “MIZMOR” [2021] for four-octave vibraphone). Dr. Graiser will be joined by his wife, Dr. Alaina Graiser, as the REFLECT harp+percussion duo returns to the in-person concert stage for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
The percussion performance calendar only gets busier from there. REFLECT harp+percussion will return for another performance as a part of the A-State Faculty Showcase Concert on February 9th, followed by a special guest artist recital on March 2nd by Dr. Matthew Holm, the Director of Percussion Studies at Kent State University. The A-State Percussion Ensemble concert will take place on March 30th (much more information to come in the future about that particular extravaganza!), followed shortly thereafter by A-State Music Performance major Joshua Huffstutler’s senior percussion recital on April 3rd. In between all of those events, expect a continuation of last semester’s excellence in all of A-State’s concert bands, jazz bands, and other ensembles!
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