ROOTS AND RHIZOMES:
Seventy-Five Years of Percussion Music

February 21-24, 2007

Presented by the Music Department, University of California, San Diego

Daily Schedule

Note: All concerts are in Warren Studio A unless indicated otherwise. Click here for more on Purchasing Tickets.

Wednesday, February 21

8pm Evening Concert: red fish blue fish with Vanessa Tomlinson
  Works by Erik Griswold, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Georges Aperghis, and Julio Estrada. Tickets: $8 General / $6 Students / UCSD Students free with ID.

Thursday, February 22

11am Taikoproject School Presentation
  Mandeville Auditorium
12:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm Kick-off performance*: Matt Jenkins plays Thomas Meadowcroft
  *Kick-off performances will consist of the performance of a single piece to initiate the day's panel discussion
2-4pm Panel I - Roots and Rhizomes
  A moderated group discussion of the traditions of contemporary percussion repertoire and how divergent views meld (or fail to meld) to form the current practice.
6-9pm Robert Esler "Sustained Metal"
  Performed sound installation in Warren Studio A
8pm Evening Concert: Taikoproject
  Presented by Artpwr! in Mandeville Auditorium. Tickets: $34 and $30 General / $24 and $20 Students / $17 and $15 UCSD Students with ID.

Friday, February 23

10am Kick-off: Special Guest John Bergamo - Gustavo Aguilar plays Bergamo's "Tulumbaz"
10:30am-12:30pm A Conversation with Julio Estrada and Christopher Shultis
  Performance of Estrada’s “Memorias” for percussion with live processing by Gustavo Aguilar and Phil Curtis
12:30-2pm Lunch Break
2-4pm Panel II - We Are Family: the Meaning of Community among Contemporary Percussionists
5-6pm Mini-concert: Allen Otte plays Herbert Brun's "Touch and Go"
8pm Evening Concert: Fritz Hauser "Trommel mit Mann"
  Tickets: $8 General / $6 Students / UCSD Students free with ID

Saturday, February 24

10am Kick-off: Aiyun Huang plays Sean Griffin's "Tension Study II: Eagle Claw Wu Tsiao Chen Wins" (2007)
10:30am-12:30pm Paper Session
12:30-2pm Lunch Break
2-4pm Panel III An Imagined Future: Where Will We Be in 75 Years? How Do We Get There?
5-6pm Bernhard Wulff in Conversation
8pm Evening Concert: Percussion Group Cincinnati
  Tickets: $8 General / $6 Students / UCSD Students free with ID
post-concert Catered Reception

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