IPFW Super-Sizes Music by Steve Penhollow a Concert Like This Is a Lot of Work for the Auer Performance Hall and Rhinehart Re- People Involved, Tescarollo Says
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MARCH 19-25, 2015 ---------Feature • Monster Piano Concert & Guitar Ensemble Festival ------- IPFW Super-Sizes Music By Steve Penhollow A concert like this is a lot of work for the Auer Performance Hall and Rhinehart Re- people involved, Tescarollo says. cital Hall, there will be guitar master classes When you hear about a monster event, There are logistical issues that just don’t at Sweetwater Sound all day on March 28. UPCOMING EVENTS you think about a guy screaming on the radio come up during most university music con- The difference between classical guitar about trucks crushing cars atop mud. certs or during the preparations for such con- playing and rock guitar playing are signifi- You don’t think about something hosted certs. cant, she says. by the IPFW music department. “Especially because everyone has their In a rock band, one guitarist plays lead But on March 20, IPFW will present a own schedules,” he says. “Orchestras have and another rhythm. concert that – despite being free of trucks, rehearsing schedules,” Tescarollo says, In classical playing, “each guitar has a crushed cars and mud – is, nevertheless, a “but in a piano orchestra, so to speak, every voice of it’s own,” Lydy says. “Each player monster. It’s called 50 Hands Monster Piano Concert Left: Pianists Vicky Carwein and Hamilton and it’s happening at Tescarollo; right; Canadian Guitar Quartet Auer Performance Hall. March 19 | 8p.m. It’s one of two mon- ster-sized events the uni- versity will be present- GORDON LI G HTFOOT ing in the coming weeks, 50 Years on the the other being the 23rd Carefree Highway Tour Mid-America Guitar En- semble Festival The 50 Hands Mon- March 25 | 7:30p.m. ster Piano Concert hap- pens March 20, and the GUYS & DO ll S 23rd Mid-America Gui- Broadway at the Embassy tar Ensemble Festival happens March 27-29. Hamilton Tesca- rollo, assistant professor and director of keyboard studies for the music department at IPFW, 50 HANDS MONSTER says the idea of doing a is a little bit more bal- monster piano concert PIANO CONCERT anced.” came about when mu- 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20 Lydy says that everyone sic department faculty Auer Performance Hall seems to love some form of members were looking Rhinehart Music Center, IPFW guitar music and that love March 26 | 7:30p.m. for ways to commemo- is an excellent “gateway” rate IPFW’s 50th anni- MID-AMERICA GUITAR to classical guitar. versary. “The guitar’s popular- AL TON BROWN The monster piano ENSEMBLE FESTIVAL ity makes [classical] more Edible Inevitable Tour concept isn’t exactly new. member Friday-Sunday, March 27-29 approachable,” she says. Monster piano concerts were presented has his or Rhinehart Music Center, IPFW Unlike some guitar mu- March 29 | 3p.m. as early as the 19th century, Tescarollo says. her own sic, Lydy says, classical Then, as now, a monster piano concert sched- 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne guitar wasn’t meant to melt was usually put on for commemorative or ule.” Tix.: $4-$15 thru box office, into or meld with the back- AL EX A NDER A ND THE fundraising purposes. One ground. So what exactly is a monster piano con- thing 260-481-6555 “It’s more intellectual,” ERRI bl E ORRI bl E cert? about a she says. “It’s more for the T , H , It’s multiple pianists playing multiple monster show that should ease the mind of mind.” pianos at the time. anyone who has a slight or acute classical Lydy points out that even the most com- NO GOOD , It’s also multiple pianists, as many as music phobia: it’s all in fun. mitted lover of American popular music three, playing the same piano at the same “Well, I think it really comes down to probably doesn’t listen to anything com- VERY BA D DA Y time. the party of it and the entertainment of it,” posed more than a hundred years ago. Live Stage Show There will be a gradual and dramatic es- he says. It’s more like 50 years for most people, calation of this concept through the course A week after that monstrous ivory tick- she says. Jersey Boys .....................April 14-19 of the IPFW show until eight pianos and 28 ling is perpetrated, the Mid-America Guitar Classical guitar repertoire, on the other Wild Kratts Live ....................April 23 pianists will occupy the stage simultaneous- Ensemble Festival will return to IPFW. hand, goes back centuries. ly. For 23 years, the festival has been tour- And it comes from all over the world, In the Mood ..........................April 24 Thirty-one pianists in all – alumni, cur- ing Midwestern universities, showcasing the not just Spain, as some people might as- Jim & Jill Kelly .................April 27-28 rent faculty and students – will participate in guitar talents of students and faculties. sume, Lydy says. John Mellencamp .................. June 6 the concert, Tescarollo says. It last visited IPFW in 2007, says Laura The festival will assume monstrous pro- Buddy Nolan Tribute ...........June 14 That’s 62 hands, technically, but let’s Lydy, director of guitar and guitar studies at portions during the closing concert on March not get mired in details. IPFW. 29. Many of the players have never per- This year 19 schools will be represented One-hundred and forty five guitarists 125 W. Jefferson Blvd. formed in a monster concert before, he says, and 145 guitarists have registered to play. will simultaneously perform a composi- Fort Wayne, Indiana and it’s a good bet that many people in the The ensembles that are scheduled to per- tion written for the festival by Patrick Roux audience will have spent much of their lives form will have as few as two and as many as called “Thunders and Strums.” ticketmaster.com failing to realize that such a thing was even 20 players, Lydy says. “That is going to rock,” Lydy says. possible. 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JEFREY CRANE PHOTOGRAPHY inside the issue • features FLIX ................................................15 Cinderella MONSTER PIANO CONCERT/ SCREEN TIME ...............................15 GUITAR ENSEMBLE FESTIVAL. ..............2 Cinderella Wins Prince, Box Office IPFW Super-Sizes Music ON BOOKS .....................................16 GUYS AND DOLLS ..........................................4 The Magician’s Lie A Boat-Rockin’ Musical CURTAIN CALL ............................... 17 DON QUIXOTE .................................................5 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike The Men Take Center Stage DIRECTOR’S NOTES ...................... 17FWBallet-Whatzup4.5x5.125-DonQ.indd 1 2/26/15 5:30 PM PLAXTON & THE VOID ...................................6 33 Variations A Band on the Verge FARE WARNING ............................ 19 Loverboy Kicking Off TRF Concerts • columns & reviews • calendars SPINS ...............................................7 The Neal Morse Band, A Place to Bury Strangers LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ...................8 BACKTRACKS ..................................7 MUSIC/ON THE ROAD ...................12 Faith No More, Angel Dust (1992) ROAD TRIPZ ..................................13 OUT & ABOUT ...................................8 AIRING THIS WEEKEND • MARCH 22 Are You Ready for Some Baseball? 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