Historical May 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
A unique program containing a premiere composition performance is planned by the Saint Louis Conservatory Percussion Ensemble for its spring concert Sunday night, May 4, at CASA/The Saint Louis Conservatory and Schools for the Arts, 560 Trinity at Delmar, University City, at 7:30 p.m.
Under the direction of Richard Holmes and John Kasica, members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Conservatory faculty, the group will perform three percussion works — Bazelon’s Concerto for Percussion. Cirone’s Percussion Symphony No. 1, and Pentagons for Five Percussionists— and an adaptation, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings on ten marimbas.
The premiere is “North Sea Music” by Randy Orsak, a “total environment” creation that uses the concepts of architecture and choreography to bring together random variables in music, movement and visual effect.
Moving and exchanging places, 17 musicians perform on a wide variety of different kinds of orchestral and percussion instruments.
The score itself is a visual part of the work, hanging in large charts for use by musicians and as signposts for the audience.
The unusual performance, the last Conservatory free concert of the current season, will be held in the CASA Main Auditorium.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1980.
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