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Eric Derr Recital

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 8:00 pm

Conrad Prebys Music Center Theatre

Free


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Percussionist Eric Derr's program includes Great Hymn of Thanksgiving by UCSD alum composer Rick Burkhardt (Derr is joined by percussionists Jon Hepfer and Dustin Donahue) and Make 'em go AH! by QQ.  Burkhardt's Great Hymn of Thanksgiving (2003) takes place at a dinner table, where the sounds of conversation have been replaced by fragments of news reports from Iraq, scraps from the Army prayer manual, invented Arab folk tales, and a recurring State of Emergency pointing everywhere and leading nowhere. The sounds of the table itself struggle to bring this “conversation” into a confrontation with material reality. The piece is a trio between the functions of music, noise, and semantic meaning, wherein each function can mingle with the others, lose itself in reveries (under fields of motive force that assert themselves with varying degrees of insistence), or, when necessary, take a solo.

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