Join us Saturday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Fulkerson Recital Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt.
The concert features a diverse range of performances by faculty and community members: everything from Felix Mendelssohn to a Video Game Medley. Tickets are $20 for general, $5 for children and Cal Poly Humboldt Students with ID.
The program begins with Sinfonietta for 10 Winds, Op. 73 by Ruth Gipps.
“Sinfonietta takes on the broad scope of the symphonic form in miniature; greatly condensed instrumental forces carry on four brisk movements that breeze by in about 16 minutes. Here near the end of her career, Gipps boils down her favorite form to its essential elements, presenting balmy, sea-soaked melodies in a bold simplicity,” according to a program note by Tyler J. Kimball.
Sinfonietta will be performed by Gary Lewis (flute), Kearney Vander Sal (flute), Susan Sisk (oboe), Virginia Ryder (English horn), Ken Ayoob (clarinet), Gwen Gastineau-Ayoob (clarinet), Danny Gaon (bassoon), Susan Kates (bassoon), Anwyn Halliday (French horn), and Donald Bicknell (French horn).
A jazz instrumental version of Baltimore Oriole by Hoagy Carmichael will be performed by Michael Fabian (piano), Gary Lewis (soprano sax), and Brian Post (bass). The song was one of three Carmichael compositions due to be featured in the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not," starring Humphrey Bogart, Carmichael, and Lauren Bacall. According to Bacall, Howard Hawks, the film's director, envisioned the song becoming her signature tune. Instead, Bacall sang the less vocally demanding How Little We Know, and Baltimore Oriole was relegated to serving as background music in the film.
Next on the program is Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn. For piano, violin, viola, and cello, the composition was completed on Oct. 18, 1822, and dedicated to Polish Prince Antoni Radziwiłł. Mendelssohn's three numbered piano quartets were the first works of his to be published, hence their opus numbers. The piece was published in 1823, when Mendelssohn was 14 years old.
The group SoniX is comprised of Garrick Woods (cello), Gary Lewis (flute), Michael Fabian (lead pan), Ginny Ryder (english horn), Brian Post (piano), will perform two pieces by Chick Corea, Childrens Song #2 and Children’s song #7. They will also perform House of Flowers from Jenny Scheinman’s 2024 album All Species Parade.
“A native of Humboldt County in Northern California, Schienman moved to New York in 1999 and became a distinctive part of the new jazz scene, holding down a weekly gig at Barbès in Brooklyn and playing with a wide cross-section of players including Marc Ribot and Norah Jones. Then in 2012, she returned to Northern California's Lost Coast. That change, along with becoming a first-time parent, are the experiences and emotions she draws on in All Species Parade. Add to that a desire to express her constant sense of wonder inspired by the dramatic landscape of extreme Northern California,” music journalist Robert Baird writes in Stereophile.
Garrick Woods (cello), will then perform a piece, First Rain, written by faculty member Brian Post to finish off the evening. Michael Fabian (lead pan), Brian Post (piano), Erich Lenk (drums), and Saul Stuart (bass) will perform a video game medley. The medley is made up of compositions from "The Legend of Zelda: Windwalker" (Dragon Roost Island), "Kirby Superstar" (Float Island), and "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" (Chemical Plant Zone)
Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at tickets.humboldt.edu/dance-music-and-theatre
For more information, visit music.humboldt.edu or contact (707) 826-356