A beautiful violin solo transcribed for solo marimba! My farewell of sorts to my undergrad.
Hymns Renewed bridges the ancient and the modern, blending some of the earliest known Greek melodies with contemporary extended techniques for flute, cello, and tam-tam. The piece draws from Petros Tabouris' reconstructions of the Hymn to the Muse and Hymn to Calliope and Apollo, borrowing these melodies and placing them in a new context.
Composed by Omar Thomas Recorded at a dress rehearsal, March 2025
Tambourine: Skyler Hedblom
Piece: Stubernic
Composer: Mark Ford
Performers: Sarah Beacock, Jeffery Lund (solo), Skyler Hedblom
Performance: University of Puget Sound, Schneebeck Concert Hall, 1/31/2025 — Jacobsen Concert Series, "Inspiration"
Program Notes:
Stubernic (pronounced "Stew-bur-nick") is a unique, challenging marimba trio for one 4 1/3-octave marimba shared by three performers. Dedicated to Stefan and Mary K. Stuber--and their music studies in Nicaragua--the title suddenly makes sense: "Stuber-Nic" (leave it to Ford to personalize a composition to this degree). This single-movement, three-part work should be memorized. Player 2, situated in the center of the instrument, has the most difficult part, in that the four-mallet middle section is a rhapsodic, guitar-like cadenza. Players 1 and 3 (tacet for most of the middle section) are positioned on either end of the marimba's range and provide clever accompaniment to Player 2. At one point, Players 1 and 3 must develop an ostinato on the frame and resonators of the marimba. The composition's first section sounds minimalistic and modal, and there is evidence of Ford's musical humor in that the performers rotate up the marimba_in the fashion of a Central American marimba family playing musical chairs--before returning to their original register. The final section is truly an ensemble tour-de-force in that the parts are virtually all doubled in octaves at the end. There is also evidence of a set of variations on the modal melodic material presented in the first section. Players 1 and 3 utilize two-mallet technique throughout this ten-minute work. Stubernic is a spectacular ensemble for three mature keyboard percussion performers."
- Jim Lambert Percussive Notes, December 1995
Composed fall 2024 Premiered and performed here 9/27/2024 at the University of Puget Sound School of Music's Collage Concert, Schneebeck Concert Hall
Alex Westervelt - Innato
Skyler Hedblom - Djembe
Drum cam from the University of Puget Sound Opera Theatre’s 2023 production of “Scenes from the Opera House to the Cabaret.”
Song: “A New World”
Composer: Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Dawn Padula