{"id":38241,"date":"2010-11-22T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=38241"},"modified":"2016-02-01T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:45:41","slug":"student-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/11\/22\/student-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Student musical achievement showcased during December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/web_gamelan0487.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/web_gamelan0487-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Gina Fatone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the semester draws to a close, Bates concerts in early December spotlight student achievement across a diverse array of musical styles. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The College Choir, directed by John Corrie, performs at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 3 and 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>The Steel Pan Orchestra takes the Olin stage at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Maine jazz pianist Tom Snow, the Bates College Jazz Band swings the Olin auditorium at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the college&#8217;s Gamelan Orchestra, directed by Assistant Professor of Music Gina Fatone, presents a program including an excerpt from Lou Harrison&#8217;s Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese Gamelan at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9. This concert will be held in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free to all concerts, but due to limited seating, tickets are required for the choir and jazz band performances. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu.<\/p>\n<p>For the choir&#8217;s winter concert, the ensemble will perform a selection of opera choruses ranging from familiar to little-known masterpieces.\u00a0 In addition to leading the choir, teaching voice and serving as the chapel organist at Bates, Corrie is artistic director for the Maine Music Society, a local orchestral and choral organization.<\/p>\n<p>Erica Butler directs the Steel Pan Orchestra, which performs music of the West Indies on authentic instruments.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/01\/web_091208_jazz_band_8878.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/01\/web_091208_jazz_band_8878-400x265.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Thomas Snow, director, conducts an Olin Arts Center Concert Hall rehearsal of the Bates Jazz Band in preparation for their Dec. 9 concert in the FIreplace Lounge of the New Commons building. \n\nThe Bates Jazz Band is a full big band of skilled\n  and talented Bates students. We perform at \n  least one concert per semester and play works\n  from a large and varied repertoire; our past\n  concerts have featured pieces by artists such as\n  Stevie Wonder, Michael Brecker, Steely Dan\n  and The Count Basie Orchestra. The band is a\n  wonderful opportunity to play in a large group\n  setting and also provides the opportunity to\n  improvise\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The jazz band performs bossa nova, funk and classic swing. The upcoming program includes tunes by Tower of Power, Pat Metheny, Billy Strayhorn and Count Basie.<\/p>\n<p>The final concert showcases the gamelan, a traditional Indonesian percussion ensemble that also often includes vocals, flutes and stringed instruments. Bates has two sets of gamelan instruments, a large Central Javanese gamelan and a smaller Sundanese set, and both will be featured.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Harrison excerpt, the program includes a composition in Balinese style arranged by top Balinese contemporary composer I Dewa Ketut Alit, who has been in residence this fall, and two West Javanese songs sung by guest vocalist Jennifer Woodruff, visiting assistant professor in the music department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the semester draws to a close, Bates concerts in early December spotlight student achievement across a diverse array of musical styles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133],"tags":[1315,3738,4628,6135],"class_list":["post-38241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","tag-bates-college-choir","tag-gamelan","tag-jazz-band","tag-music-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87314,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241\/revisions\/87314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}