Crumb Kaleidoscope Rescheduled Date

Kent State University New Music Program 

presents

The
Montage Guest Artist Series

CRUMB KALEIDOSCOPE

MUSIC BY

Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin,
George Crumb, Herman Hupfield, Wang Luobin, James Wilding, and Others

Kathryn Thomas Umble, flute

Caroline Oltmanns, piano

James Wilding, piano

Bryan Teeters, percussion

Cameron Weichman, percussion

RESCHEDULED DATE

Sunday February 9, 2014, 8:00 P.M.

Carl F. W. Ludwig Recital Hall, Kent
State University

Admission Free

The next
concert in the Montage Guest Artist Series, presented by Kent State University New Music, will be Crumb Kaleidoscope. 
This unique and fascinating concert will consist of a montage of many
different types of music unified by works written by the Pulitzer Prize winning American composer George Crumb.  Guest
performers will be flutist Kathryn Thomas Umble, pianists Caroline Oltmanns and
James Wilding, and percussionists Bryan Teeters and Cameron Weichman.  The concert will be held at 8:00 P.M. on Sunday,
February 9 in the Carl F. W. Ludwig Recital Hall on the Kent State University
campus.  Admission to all concerts in the
Montage Guest Artist Series is free.

Three
motives, one concert.  Imagine a piano
duo playing the music of George Crumb, becoming fascinated by his melodies, and
hearing in them melodies by other composers and other musical cultures.  They play these other melodies too, a flute
hints plaintively at the connections, and the whole is accompanied gently by
percussion.  We’ve extracted three

motives from Crumbs creations, and used them to build an entire concert

program, using pieces that on the one hand are connected together, on the other
hand could barely be more contrasting. 
The spectrum ranges from the Baroque chorale to the music of Casablanca,
from Crumb’s ethereal sounds to traditional Chinese music.   And the instrumentation suggests an
unconventional multidimensionality: besides the piano are timpani, bells,

Chinese gongs, a thunder sheet, a gramophone, and much more.  Incredible what one can make from three
motives...