Concert: Contemporary Music Ensemble

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Timothy Weiss leads the Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) in Warner Concert Hall. CME features Oberlin Conservatory student musicians playing new pieces by a wide range of 20th- and 21st-century composers. Professor of Flute Alexa Still, Associate Professor of Bassoon Drew Pattison ’10, and Associate Professor of Percussion Ross Karre ’05 with his group the Oberlin Percussion Group are featured in this concert. This concert contains works by composer-in-residence Augusta Read Thomas.     

Program:

George Crumb An Idyll of the Misbegotten

   Alexa Still, flute

   Oberlin Percussion Group

Augusta Read Thomas Bassoon Concertino

   Drew Pattison ’10, bassoon

David Clay Mettens stain, bloom, moon, rain (2020)

Augusta Read Thomas Abracadabra (Suncatchers) (2024)

View the September 20, 2024 program

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