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Dikeou Collection
Friday, November 20 at 6:30pm - Playground Ensemble Concert Ce...
Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Cente...
Tuesday, October 20 at 7:30pm - The Playground Ensemble at Obj...
Object and Thought
Friday, September 18 at 7:00pm
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All-new compositions by Tyler Gilmore
Location:Dazzle Jazz Club
Time:6:00PM Sunday, December 27th
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It doesn’t matter how old you are, how long you’ve been playing, what instrument you play, or even if you can read music. Rock, jazz, classical, folk, bluegrass, electronic- all genre’s are welcome. Professional, amateur, beginner. It doesn’t matter. We want you there!!
Show up at 6:30 with your instrument and learn the... Soundpainting language. Participate as a player or composer/ conductor.
At 7:30 we will “paint” a number of pieces with new conductor/ composers and instrumentation for each work. All participants are free to play, conduct or watch. This evening is about creativity and community. Come be a part!!
Time:6:30PM Friday, November 20th
Location:Dikeou Collection
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PLAYGROUND ENSEMBLE ASKS THE QUESTION "WHERE DO MUSIC AND NOISE MEET?"
When: Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 7:30pm
Where: Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
2344 E. Iliff Ave, Denver CO (303) 871-6412
Tickets: $18 adults, $16 seniors, and free for students from any school and DU/ID
Web: www.playg...roundensemble.org
What is music? When is sound just noise? The attempts of 20th-century composers to grapple with these questions generated some of the most important musical innovations of the era. In this concert, the Playground presents music that redefines these terms and examines the boundaries between them.
The performance will include:
Profilo Sintetico-Musicale di Marinetti (1924) by Silvio Mix
Suite for Percussion (1942) by Lou Harrison
4'33" (1952) by John Cage
Sound Patterns (1961) by Pauline Oliveros
O'Hara Songs (1962) by Morton Feldman
Clapping Music (1972) by Steve Reich
Dots, Lines, Zigzags (1976) by Sofia Gubaidulina
The Dead Man (1990) by John Zorn
selections from Tabula Rasa (1993) by Einsturzende Neubauten
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In exploring the themes of love and death, nostalgia and timelessness, George Crumb creates a powerful and nuanced sound world. His use of extended techniques and graphic notation and his emphasis on tone quality rather than melody brand him an avant garde composer, but his poignant and evocative, sometimes theatrica...l gestures are firmly grounded in Romanticism. His music has an immediate, almost visceral appeal.
Crumb was born in West Virginia in 1929. He studied composition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, and the University of Michigan, finishing his studies in 1959. After graduating, he began teaching at the University of Colorado, and over the next several years, his unique style emerged.
This performance will feature a broad sampling of his compositional output, including Five Pieces for Piano (1962), Eleven Echoes of Autumn (1966), and Easter Dawning (1991).
A special point of interest, tonight's program will open with the carillon piece Easter Dawning, performed on the beautiful Carl M.. Williams carillon on the University of Denver campus. This performance will be digitally streamed and projected into the Hamilton Recital Hall. This will be the first of what we hope will be many multi-media and web based Playground events.
About the performers:
The Playground Ensemble, Artists-in-Residence at DU’s Lamont School of Music, is a force for new music in the Rocky Mountain region. While maintaining a unique annual concert season featuring such composers as Arvo Part, Samuel Barber, and George Crumb, the Playground actively supports and cultivates Colorado's thriving composition community.
In addition, the ensemble strives to reach out to new audiences with inventive programming and a free concert series. The ensemble is also active educationally, providing master-classes and concerts in various public and private institutions. The Playground's goal is to provide stimulating performances, expand common perceptions of both contemporary music and the chamber ensemble, and nurture a community around this music that we love.
Tickets: $18 adults, $16 seniors, and free for students from any school and DU/ID
Web: www.playgroundensemble.org
Time:7:30PM Tuesday, October 20th
Location:Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts 2344 E. Iliff Ave, Denver CO (303) 871-6412
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PLAYGROUND ENSEMBLE TO KICK OFF 2009-2010 CONCERT SEASON WITH SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT OBJECT AND THOUGHT GALLERY
When: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7pm
Where: 1430 Delgany St Unit C (across the street and back from the Museum of Contemporary Art)
Denver, CO, 80202
Object and Thought Phone: 303-539-9303
Tickets: Suggested ...donation
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The Playground Ensemble is excited to begin their 2009/2010 concert season with a special performance at the new location of Object and Thought Gallery. Their previous season broke precedent for the award winning ensemble in terms attendance, support, and musical success. Information on the upcoming season is available at www.playgroundensemble.org
The performance will feature, in addition to the Playground Ensemble, innovative singer-songwriter Roger Green, and unique ensemble itchy-O.
About the performers:
The Playground Ensemble, Artists-in-Residence at DU’s Lamont School of Music, is a force for new music in the Rocky Mountain region. While maintaining a unique annual concert season featuring such composers as Arvo Part, Samuel Barber, and George Crumb, the Playground actively supports and cultivates Colorado's thriving composition community.
In addition, the ensemble strives to reach out to new audiences with inventive programming and a free concert series. The ensemble is also active educationally, providing master-classes and concerts in various public and private institutions. The Playground's goal is to provide stimulating performances, expand common perceptions of both contemporary music and the chamber ensemble, and nurture a community around this music that we love.
Born and raised in Denver, Roger Green started playing in bands as a teenager with Patrick Park and Sera Cahoone. He then joined the Czars for a few albums. In 2006 Roger was contracted to write a composition for 25 typists and 5 musicians presented a the Belmar Laboratory of Art and Ideas in Lakewood Colorado. He also appears on the Blossom half of Ron Miles' Stone/Blossom album which was released by Sterling Circle Records in November 2006. In November of 2004 Roger resigned from the Czars in order to work on his own music. For six years, the Czars were his main project. He was fortunate enough to work with Simon Raymonde and Giles Hall in the studio on The Ugly People vs. The Beautiful People (Bella Union / Manifesto 2001). During his tenure with the band they also recorded Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" for a tribute called Sing a Song for You (Manifesto 2000), soundtrack music for the film "I'd Rather Be...Gone"(2000), X Would Rather Listen to Y EP (2002), and Goodbye (2004). Roger has opened for / played with Sixteen Horsepower, Woven Hand, Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, David Gray, Low, The Flaming Lips, Elf Power, Imperial Teen, Ron Miles, Violet Indiana, Hem, Devics, Joe Sampson, Porlolo, Patrick Park, Heirloom, Scout Niblet, Red Cloud, Cowhause / Janet Feder, Momen Terra, and probably a lot more. Other releases include: The Way Things Go (2003): What Would This Be For? - Porlolo / Roger Green Split(2004): Roger Green S/T (2005): Blossom (2006); Clear Running Water (2007); The Glenn Taylor Orchestra (2008).
itchy-O is Scott Banning (film/video, samples, drums/percussion, keyboards, and thunder-tube), Kirsten Vermulen (accordion), Conrad Kehn (vocals, vinyl) Nick Lloyd (guitar and banjolyn), Scott Waknin (bass), and Bill Englebach (drums).
Itchy-O began as a solo project in 2003 when the relocated experimental percussionist/filmmaker Scott Banning, (Super Collider, Alphajerk, San Francisco Taiko Dojo, Valley Fever, Extra Action Marching Band, and close associate of Crash Worship), emerged in Denver. Since then this project has crawled it’s way from it’s first primordial dark drone album Pulmonic to the recent bright and dynamic collective efforts of Phagocytosis. Conrad Kehn, (vocalist, improvisationalist, composer from Skull Flux and Kallisti now a professor of music at DU), joined in 2005 along with guitarist Nick Lloyd a student of flamenco guru Rene Heredia and in 2006. The film Whirl was made in 2007 and Kirsten Vermulen got on board with her accordion. Itchy-O began playing live scores to Scott Banning’s experimental films and Bill Englebach and Scott Waknin joined in late 2008.
with Roger Green and itchy-O
Time:7:00PM Friday, September 18th
Location:Object and Thought
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Congratulation's to all who participated in this year's CoCoCo held April 25th at the King Center on the Auraria campus. The concert and pre-concert lecture were fabulous events and we look forward to next year.
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