SPRING 2012 - Saddleback College
SPRING 2012 - Saddleback College
SPRING 2012 - Saddleback College
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JAZZ LAB ENSEMBLE IN CONCERT<br />
FEATURING THE MUSIC OF<br />
JOHN COLTRANE<br />
Monday, April 30 at 7 pm<br />
McKinney Theatre<br />
$10 general; $7 students/seniors<br />
Join the Jazz Lab Ensemble as it investigates the<br />
spiritually-motivated music of John Coltrane. In<br />
the mid-1960s, ’Trane’s influence on the direction<br />
of jazz was profound, and this concert will feature<br />
selected movements from his epic suite, “A Love<br />
Supreme.”<br />
SADDLEBACK BIG BAND<br />
FEATURING JAZZ COMPOSITION<br />
CLASS COMPOSITIONS!<br />
Wednesday, May 2 at 7 pm<br />
McKinney Theatre<br />
$10 general; $7 students/seniors<br />
Come witness our Jazz Composition students’<br />
creations. Our students have worked hard all<br />
semester to bring these works to fruition, and<br />
the Big Band rises to the challenge to bring their<br />
cauldron of creativity to the table.<br />
CONCERT HOUR<br />
SADDLEBACK MUSIC STUDENTS<br />
IN RECITAL<br />
Thursday, May 3 at Noon<br />
McKinney Theatre<br />
FREE Admission<br />
Our talented voice, instrumental, piano and jazz<br />
students perform in recital. Come and show your<br />
support for these aspiring musicians!<br />
DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS<br />
AN EVENING OF IONESCO PLAYS<br />
Friday May 4 & Saturday May 5 at 8 pm<br />
Studio Theatre<br />
$5 general<br />
Two avant-garde one-act plays will be performed<br />
by <strong>Saddleback</strong> students. Experience the crazy life<br />
of characters in The Bald Soprano as they speak<br />
gibberish and barely seem to communicate.<br />
Eugene Ionesco was a Romanian and French<br />
playwright and dramatist and one of the foremost<br />
playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.<br />
GUITAR STORIES<br />
Sunday, May 6 at 7:30 pm<br />
McKinney Theatre<br />
$20 general; $15 students/seniors<br />
Capricho!<br />
Francisco Goya’s images, Los Caprichos, are<br />
a dark journey through the mindscape of the<br />
artist. Set to music by Castelnuovo-Tedesco,<br />
Capricho! combines live music with digital<br />
projections. Canadian Guitarist Alexander<br />
Dunn performs selections from Tedesco’s<br />
Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195, with short films<br />
based on Goya by Canadian artist Daniel<br />
Laskarin.<br />
Music of Two Worlds<br />
Using a large canvas storybook, dramatic<br />
lighting, ambient props, and colorful narration,<br />
guitarist and faculty member Randy Pile<br />
focuses on the music of Spain’s most famous<br />
composer of the 20th century, Joaquín<br />
Rodrigo, and the father of Brazil’s national<br />
music, Heitor Villa-Lobos.<br />
JAZZ COMBO CONCERT<br />
Monday, May 7 at 7 pm<br />
McKinney Theatre<br />
$10 general; $7 students/seniors<br />
<strong>Saddleback</strong> <strong>College</strong> jazz combos play great<br />
standards and original works. This culminating,<br />
cacophonous, creative concert features our everpopular<br />
Jazz Trivia questions and a chance to win<br />
exciting jazz-related gifts!<br />
WIND ENSEMBLE<br />
Tuesday, May 8 at 8 pm<br />
McKinney Theatre<br />
$10 general; $7 students/seniors<br />
Conducted by John Hannon, the <strong>Saddleback</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> Wind Ensemble and Brass Choir close<br />
the spring season with selections both new and<br />
well-known.<br />
Top to Bottom:<br />
Guitarist and faculty<br />
member Randy Pile<br />
in Guitar Stories,<br />
Jazz drum student,<br />
caricature of Ionesco,<br />
jazz guitar student, the<br />
Big Band conducted<br />
by Joey Sellers.<br />
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