Where can one hear both marimba music from Mexico and a medley of cop and detective television themes from the 1970s and ’80s?
Pellissippi State Community College’s Fall Instrumental College today (10/28) will include these and much, much more from the college’s brass, guitar and percussion ensembles and the studio orchestra.
The free concert, part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, will be held at 7 p.m. in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the college’s Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.
The evening’s diversity will include:
- The brass ensemble, directed by Tom Lundberg, playing selections from ballet to opera by Italian Giovanni Gabrieli, French composer Leo Delibes, American composer Collier Jones and Spaniard Manuel Penella;
- The guitar ensemble, directed by Chad Volkers, performing a series of character pieces telling a story using musical imagery, taking the audience from a tumultuous boat ride and the sounds of the earth to a circus and finding a mouse in the house;
- The percussion ensemble, directed by Paul Hayes, exploring the unique and eccentric, including marimba music from Mexico, a flamenco-inspired mallet duet and a trio using some of the more neglected instruments in the percussion family; and
- The studio orchestra, directed by David Slack, playing a medley of cop and detective television themes composed by Mike Post, Jack Elliot, Allyn Ferguson, John Parker and Henry Mancini.
The Arts at Pellissippi State is an annual arts series that includes music and theatre performances and fine arts exhibits. Info: www.pstcc.edu/arts or 865-694-6400.
To request accommodations for a disability at this event or any campus event, call 865-539-7401 or email accommodations@pstcc.edu.
Lesli Bales-Sherrod does marketing and writing for Pellissippi State Community College.