Donald F. Cook Recital Hall M.O. Morgan Building Thursday, 6 November 2003 at 8:00 p.m.

The Scruncheons Rob Power, Director

Implosion ( 1982) Mantle Hood ( 1928 - )

Saturday Night in Olde St. John's (2003)* (1957-)

Bill Brennan, Rob Power, percussion

Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble ( 1988) Ney Rosaura ( 1952- ) I Saudacao II Lamento m Despedida Andrew Dunsmore, marimba

Intermission

Quintet ( 1973) Alexander Lepak (1920-) I Grave, Allegro II Andante m Allegro, Lento

Charleston Capers (arr. 1978) G.H. Green (1893-1970) arr. by Bob Becker Keith Harding, xylophone

5/4 Joe (1992) Alexander Lepak ( 1920-

Phil Yetman, vibes - Brad Kilpatrick, drums

Show Time (2003)* The Scruncheons

*world premieres

Performers: Bill Brennan, Yves Conan, Annie Croft, Andrew Dunsmore, Kim Ettinger, Dan Galway, Keith Harding, Brad Kilpatrick, Rob Pittman, John Power, Rob Power, Ed Squires, Amie Watson, Phil Yetman The Performers:

The Scruncheons were formed by Don Wherry in the late 1980s. Over the years they have presented hundreds of concerts and workshops, including collaborations with dance, theatre, and the visual arts. They have performed and collaborated with many well known artists and musicians, including Trichy Sankaran, John Wyre, The Newfoundland Symphony, and The Beothuck Street Players.

Since the passing of Don Wherry in 2001, the Scruncheons have become even more inspired and determined to create, experiment, perform and explore. Since 2001, the group's activities have been directed by Rob Power. Rob is a founding member of the 'original' Scruncheons, and is the current professor of percussion at the MUN School of Music.

The Scruncheons perform regular concerts and workshops featuring improvisation, world music, homemade instruments, contemporary percussion ensemble repertoire and world premieres. Many Scruncheons compose music for the ensemble, and these works are premiered throughout the year in various venues. They are regular performers at the Sound Symposium, and have been heard several times on CBC Radio's Musicraft, as well as nationally on Two New Hours.

The group will often expand to include up and coming percussionists, former students, and other percussion enthusiasts. Once a Scruncheon, always a Scruncheon!

Bill Brennan is a percussionist/pianist/ living in St. John's. He is a former member of the Evergreen Club Gamelan, Vuja De, John Millard and Happy Day, the Loretto Reid Band and a pianist for jazz singers and players around Toronto. He has performed in Belgium, Japan, Holland, Norway, the USA, England, Austria, Scotland, and across Canada. Bill has played with such groups as the National Ballet , Canadian Opera Company and Nexus and has backed up the greats Cab Calloway, Eartha Kitt and Dizzy Gillespie. His works have been recorded on several CD's and have been heard frequently on CBC radio. His co-written work "Alma Chillin" has been released on the CD "Introduction to Canadian Music" on the NAXOS label. He has also composed music for Sarah Chase, including "Lamont Earth Observatory" and "Muzz". Bill has also served as musical director for CBC's "Vinyl Cafe" with Stuart MacLean.

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Mantle Hood earned both his AB in music and MA in composition from UCLA in 1951. As a Fulbright Fellow, Hood studied Indonesian music under Jaap Kunst at the University of Amsterdam, where he received his Ph.D. in 1954. A renowned expert in·Javanese/Balinese music and culture, he has received honors from the Indonesian government for his research, among them the conferral of the title "ki" (literally "the venerable") in 1986, and membership into the Dharma Kusuma (Society of National Heroes) in 1992. He is among the first non­ Indonesians to receive that honor. He has published over twenty books and book chapters as well as over sixty articles in scholarly journals and encyclopedias. Some of Hood's wo:-ks include The Ethnomusicologist (1971, 1982), Music in Indonesia (1972), The Nuclear Theme as a Determinant of Patet in Javanese Music (1954), and the film Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana ( 1964). He is currently Senior Distinguished Professor at West Virginia University and Professor Emeritus in the Ethnomusicology Department at UCLA.

Implosion is based upon the compositional principles of the Balinese gamlelan, and is scored for two xylophones, marimba, and vibraphone. Clark Winslow Ross has been one of Canada's more active composers since joining Memorial's music faculty in the fall of 1992, with numerous commissions and performances of his works throughout Canada, in England, and the United States. His compositions have had frequent radio broadcasts, and he has been awarded many grants by the Canada Council, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Newfoundland Arts Council, the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (NSO), and other organizations. Artists and groups performing his music have included the Atlantic Arts Trio, the Atlantic String Quartet, Bill Brennan, Duo Concertante, Continuum, Mark Fewer, Rivka Golani, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Bev Johnston, the Nashua Chamber Orchestra (USA), the NSO, Barbara Pritchard, Symphony Nova Scotia, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded Memorial University's President's Award for Outstanding Research in 1999, the first composer to receive that honour. Other prizes have included Young Composer's Awards for different works in national competitions by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra in 1993, and a Newfoundland Arts and Letters Award (2002). Ross holds B.A. (humanities), M.Mus., and Mus.Doc. (composition) degrees from the , where his principal composition teacher was John Beckwith. He previously studied for eight years at the Royal Conservatory of Music, including composition lessons for five years with .

Saturday Night in Olde St. John)s was commisioned with the generous assistance of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 24, 1952 Ney Rosauro studied Composition and Conducting at the Universidade de Brasilia, received his Master Degree in Percussion at the Hochschule fuur Musik Wuurzburg in Germany, and his Doctorate at the University of Miami, USA. As soloist and pedagogue, Rosauro has taught several courses and performed solo concerts in more than 25 different countries. Rosauro's five CDs have received acclaim from international critics and his compositions have been recorded by over 30 international artists and . Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble is the composer's own arrangement of his Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra. It was premiered in 1989 by the composer and the Percussion Ensemble of Meistersinger-Konservatorium Nuurnberg, directed by Hermann Schwander.

Alexander Lepak has written numerous works and method books for percussion, and has recently retired after playing percussion and timpani with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra for the past 56 years. Born in Hartford, he developed an early interest in the drums and began playing the timpani at the age of 15. Following a tour of duty in World War II and living in New York, Lepak returned to Hartford and taught percussion at the Hartt School of Music and began playing with the HSO under its first director. While teaching at Hartt, he wrote percussion instruction books that are still widely used. In 1979, Lepak went on sabbatical from the HSO and Hartt and went to Hollywood where he played music for films including "The Jerk", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and for the TV mini-series "Shogun." He also played percussion for Frank Sinatra's 1979 "Trilogy" album and taught percussion with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. In 1997, Alexander Lepak was elected to the International Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame. Quintet was written in 1973, and is scored for and four percussionists. The work requires a variety of bass drums, tom toms, snare drums, gongs, cymbals, xylophone, bells, marimba - and even a timpani cadenza. 5/ 4 Joe is an original jazz composition, and is dedicated to a famous drummer and Lepak student, Joe Porcaro.

George Hamilton Green was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1893, and was a piano prodigy at the age of four. By the age of eleven he was already being hailed as the world's greatest xylophonist. He has recorded hundreds of records and composed dozens of ragtime xylophone solos, as well as a xylophone instructional book that is still widely used today. Charleston Capers was originally written in 1926, and arranged for marimba accompaniment by Bob Becker in 1978.