Chapman University Chapman University Digital Commons Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format) Music Performances 5-2-2007 Chapman Percussion Ensemble Chapman Percussion Ensemble Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/music_programs Recommended Citation Chapman Percussion Ensemble, "Chapman Percussion Ensemble" (2007). Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format). Paper 462. http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/music_programs/462 This Ensemble Performance is brought to you for free and open access by the Music Performances at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format) by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC PRESENTS ... THE CHAPMAN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE NICK TERRY, DIRECTOR & T.J. TROY, PERCUSSION \ MAY 2, 2007 SALMON RECITAL HALL PROGRAM TRIO FOR PERCUSSION WARREN BENSON ZEICHNUNG FRITZ HAUSER MARUBATOO JOHN WYRE -INTERMISSION - GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY T.J. TROY T.J. TROY- BASS BARS MINUANO PAT METHANY CHAPMAN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE DOUG BARTOLME CASEY GREGG Scan KAWAI CELESTE MARKEY COLLIN MARTIN KAT OLMOS ANTHONY VAUGHAN ZANDER VESSELS PROGRAM NOTES, BY NICK TERRY BORN IN 1924, WARREN BENSON WAS A PROFESSIONAL PERCUSSIONIST IN THE DETROIT SYMPHONY BEFORE DEDICATING HIMSELF ENTIRELY TO COMPOSITION. AT ITHACA COLLEGE, BENSON TAUGHT PERCUSSION AND COMPOSITION FOR FOURTEEN YEARS, BEFORE MOVING TO THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, WHERE HE WAS AWARDED THE TITLE OF PROFESSOR EMERITUS IN 1994. HIS TRIO FOR PERCUSSION (1957) IS SCORED FOR BASS DRUM, SMALL GONG, THREE TOM TOMS, WOODBLOCK, TRIANGLE, AND CYMBAL, AND FOR 50 YEARS HAS REMAINED ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR COMPOSITIONS IN THE REPERTOIRE.