Premieres: Monday, December 3rd at 9:00 pm ET, 4FSU
Featuring:
John Parks IV- marimba, vibraphone
Anthony Cananzi- marimba, cajón, percussion
Omar Carmenates- percussion
Chris Jones- marimba, percussion
Joel Boss- Interviewed, but did not play
One month before appearing before appearing at Carnegie Hall for the FSU in NYC event, this ensemble came into WFSU studio A to perform some of the pieces they would play in New York. These are the best percussionists in The Florida State University’s College of Music. Dr. Parks oversees the Ensemble and the FSU Percussion Studio, whose members provide percussion for all FSU music performances (excluding Jazz and World music). Omar is the faculty supervisor for the FSU Big 8 Drum Line, Chris just received a full scholarship to pursue a graduate degree at Northwestern, and Anthony will be teaching in the prestigious Cobb County School System in Georgia.
At some point or other, most of us have found ourselves banging on our desks at school, on pots and pans raided from the kitchen, or on our steering wheels on the way to work. Dr. John Parks IV and his students in the FSU Percussion Ensemble have taken that primal urge and turned it into a living. This episode was recorded in April of 2007 as a warm up to their national tour, which culminated in a pretegious FSU in NYC performance at the legendary venue, Carnegie Halll. FSU in NYC features the best that Florida State University has to offer in music and film- two of FSU's highly rated programs.
The pieces featured might technically be called classical, but this is not a stuffy chamber orchestra. These guys came into the studio with an impressive array of instruments- everything from household objects like bowls to woodblocks, gongs, chimes, and drums of all sizes and levels of loudness. Two xylophone type instruments, the marimba (wooden keys) and vibrophone (metal keys), provide a smoother sound to compliment the more racuous instruments.
And there is a world influence as well. Marimba Spiritual (by Minoru Miki) is influenced by Japanese taiko drumming, and Tango Suite No.1 (by Astor Piazolla) is adapted from Argentine Tango.
Set List
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