Spring Break
Premiere Performance showcases 'today's performers'
Ahmet Aksoy
Issue date: 3/26/09 Section: Features
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The range of music moved from short piano pieces to electronic media pieces.
Brian Bonsteel, senior music major, composed a piece reminiscent of 1940s jazz with a Nintendo-music touch.
"My overall thoughts about it were overwhelmingly positive," said Bonsteel. "The piece was very effective because my performers really got into character."
Overall, the performance was a huge success and the students that partook in it got a lot out of it, according to those who participated in the event.
Lemuel Stanley, a second-year graduate student, who wrote a piece for the performance, enjoyed the final product.
"I was very pleased with the performance," said Stanley. "I felt that the audience responded very well and took a little something away with each piece, which in the end is my goal for any work."
The goal of Premiere Performance was to expose people to the music that is being written by today's composers.
This performance captured that and much more.
"The fact that such a good mix of musical genres was accomplished through the presentation of the works of only four composers makes the accomplishment all the more exciting," Stanley said.
Ed Jacobs, an ECU music composition professor, arranged the performance.
"I put together and organized these events," said Jacobs. "I then let students know if they would like to partake in it."
Three performances, one in the fall and two in the spring, are organized for the school year and music composition students have to partake in at least one of them.
"A vital part for composers is hearing what they write," Jacobs said. "These performances are used for my students to get feedback on their pieces."
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