MUSIC

Round Top Festival Institute presents the Round Top Percussion Festival: Percussion Galore!, Saturday, April 21.

Percussion Galore! features three fabulous and entertaining concerts designed by Thomas Burritt, Head of the Percussion Department at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin.

Percussion Galore! Concert Schedule:

1:30 pm
“The Great Virtuosity”
Tony Edwards: Timpani
Elliot Carter: Canaries, Improvisation, Perpetual Motion

Matt Teodori: Vibraphone
Philippe Boivin: Domino V

Doug Perkins: Multiple Percussion

Todd Meehan: Multiple Percussion
Michio Kitazume Side by Side

Thomas Burritt: Marimba
John Serry: Rhapsody for Marimba

4:00 pm
“The Great Melange”
Thomas Burritt: Marimba Collage Set

Intermission

The University of Texas Percussion Group:

Michael Dougherty: “Lex” with Ertan Torgul
Eric Ewazen: Percussion Symphony Mov’t II
Steve Reich: Mallet Quartet
Rolf Wallin: Stonewave

7:30 pm
“The Great Masterworks”

John Cage: “Amores” – line upon line and James Dick piano
Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas
Edgard Varese: Ionization:

Intermission

Iannis Xenakis: Pleiades