Bryce Campbell, percussion - Senior Recital

FSU’s Department of Music Presents Jazz Combo in ConcertFrostburg State University’s Department of Music presents the FSU Jazz Combo, directed by Tom Harrison, in concert on Tuesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; click the red 'Join Stream' button on this page to join the live performance.In addition to Harrison on bass, performers will include Gabe Hicks on alto sax, Vincent Hangarter on tenor sax, Sam White on trumpet and piano, Doug Holtz on trombone, vocalist Cat Owens on piano, Matt Alexander on bass, and Daniel Hicks on drums.The repertoire of the Jazz Combo focuses on jazz standards which includes some vocal as well as instrumental selections with Cat Owens singing three of the selections in the concert: “500 Miles High”, “At Last”, and “It Could Happen to You.”“500 Miles High” appeared on the album Light as a Feather recorded in 1972 by Chick Corea, and "Return to Forever" was written by pianist Corea and lyricist Neville Potter.The tune “At Last”, composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, was performed by the Glen Miller Orchestra and later made popular in the 1960 version recorded by rhythm and blues singer Etta James.“It Could Happen to You”, written by Jimmy Van Husen and Johnny Burke, was first heard in the film And the Angels Sing in 1944 and has become a classic jazz standard. The Jazz Combo will perform this and the Dexter Gordon favorite “Fried Bananas” as a medley with both tunes sharing the same chord progression, thus making Dexter’s tune a contrafact.“Gazelle”, written and recorded by saxophonist Joe Henderson on his 1971 album In Pursuit of Blackness, features a rhythmically deceptive pattern which has the listener guessing the meter.One of jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine’s most popular albums is Sugar, recorded in 1970. The title song could be considered soul-jazz and may have reached a wider audience than his straight-ahead jazz albums.Pianist Horace Silver composed and recorded the swing tune “Strollin’” for his album Horace-Scope in 1960.A second Chick Corea selection, “Sea Journey”, will be performed as an instrumental and is stylistically like a Bossa Nova, but with Corea’s Spanish flavor. It was first released on a 1973 album of bassist Stanley Clarke and appeared on an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton as well.“Someday My Prince Will Come” was first heard when Snow White sang it to the seven dwarfs as a bedtime story in the 1937 animated film. Composed by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, the song became a jazz classic recorded by Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, and many more jazz greats. In 1978 guitarist Jim Hall wrote a contrafact called “Waltz New” over the same chord changes and the Combo will perform both melodies together.The modern jazz standard “Solar” is credited to Miles Davis and the first two measures are engraved on his tombstone. The song may have originally been from the pen of Chuck Wayne, although Davis changed a few things and had it copyrighted in his name in 1963 after having already recorded it on his 1954 album Miles Davis Quintet. Pianist Bill Evans’ version from the album Sunday at the Village Vanguard may be the best-known version of the song.With the 1959 release of the album Kind of Blue, Davis pioneered the modal jazz movement abandoning the complexities of the bebop style giving the performers more freedom to create melodic ideas over basic chord progressions. “Freddie Freeloader” is a blues from that album which is known possibly as the most definitive jazz album ever recorded.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.Situated in the mountains of Allegany County, Frostburg State University is one of the 12 institutions of the University System of Maryland. FSU is a comprehensive, residential regional university and serves as an educational and cultural center for Western Maryland. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu or facebook.com/frostburgstateuniversity. Follow FSU on X @frostburgstate.FSU is committed to making all its programs, services and activities accessible to persons with disabilities. To request accommodations through the ADA Compliance Office, call 301-687-3035 or use a Voice Relay Operator at 1-800-735-2258.

Frostburg State University’s Department of Music presents "May the Fourth Be With You", a concert by the FSU Wind Ensemble, conducted by Peter B. Lewis, on Sunday, May 4, at 3:00 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. Admission is $10 for adults; $5 for seniors, military, and FSU faculty and staff; and free for students and children. Advance tickets can be purchased online at tickets.frostburg.edu or at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). They will also be available at the door the evening of the performance. This event will not be livestreamed.The concert will feature music from soundtracks for the epic, blockbuster movies "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith", "Indiana Jones", "Star Trek", and (maybe not epic, but a great animated movie) "How to Train Your Dragon". The program also includes Gandalf and Journey in the Dark from "The Lord of the Rings Symphonic Suite" by Johann de Meij, and will feature a new composition, "Hierophant", by FSU music major, Patrick Godfrey.The FSU Wind Ensemble is the premiere wind concert organization on campus, consisting of a select group of players in a smaller, generally one-on-a-part setting, that presents two concerts a semester. This popular group performs a variety of exciting, diverse, and challenging music from the Renaissance to the present, with most selections coming from the symphonic band and chamber wind repertoire.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.Situated in the mountains of Allegany County, Frostburg State University is one of the 12 institutions of the University System of Maryland. FSU is a comprehensive, residential regional university and serves as an educational and cultural center for Western Maryland. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu or facebook.com/frostburgstateuniversity. Follow FSU on X @frostburgstate.

FSU Department of Music Presents Student Composers in “New Music From the Mountains III”FSU Department of Music presents "New Music From the Mountains III”, a recital of new music by FSU student composers, on Monday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; click the red “Join Stream” button on this page to view the live performance.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.

CARL ORFF'S MASTERWORK "CARMINA BURANA" TO BE PRESENTED AT FSUOn the weekend of May 9–11, the Frostburg State University Department of Music, in conjunction with B’er Chayim Congregation in Cumberland, the FSU Departments of Visual Arts and Theatre and Dance, as well as the Butterfly Ridge Elementary School Chorus, the Allegany County Public Schools, FSU faculty and alumni, and professional musicians from around the country, will present Carl Orff’s masterwork, "Carmina Burana", his evocative—and almost primal—setting of secular medieval poetry from the region now called Germany.Performed “in the round,” in the Cordts PE Center gymnasium, audience members and performers will be intermixed around an arena for dancing, featuring original choreography by Jamie McGreevy. Original artwork, contextual to the work, its composer, and its larger societal and cultural impact, by FSU students and faculty, will be projected on screens surrounding the venue throughout the performance.Funded by a substantial grant from the Frostburg State University Foundation and contributions from many generous donors, the performances are presented free-of-charge and are open to the general public.Please join us: Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.; or Sunday, May 11, 3:00 p.m. Tickets are required, though FREE, due to space constraints, and may be acquired in advance either online at tickets.frostburg.edu or in-person at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 301-687-3137. (This event will not be livestreamed.)

CARL ORFF'S MASTERWORK "CARMINA BURANA" TO BE PRESENTED AT FSUOn the weekend of May 9–11, the Frostburg State University Department of Music, in conjunction with B’er Chayim Congregation in Cumberland, the FSU Departments of Visual Arts and Theatre and Dance, as well as the Butterfly Ridge Elementary School Chorus, the Allegany County Public Schools, FSU faculty and alumni, and professional musicians from around the country, will present Carl Orff’s masterwork, "Carmina Burana", his evocative—and almost primal—setting of secular medieval poetry from the region now called Germany.Performed “in the round,” in the Cordts PE Center gymnasium, audience members and performers will be intermixed around an arena for dancing, featuring original choreography by Jamie McGreevy. Original artwork, contextual to the work, its composer, and its larger societal and cultural impact, by FSU students and faculty, will be projected on screens surrounding the venue throughout the performance.Funded by a substantial grant from the Frostburg State University Foundation and contributions from many generous donors, the performances are presented free-of-charge and are open to the general public.Please join us: Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.; or Sunday, May 11, 3:00 p.m. Tickets are required, though FREE, due to space constraints, and may be acquired in advance either online at tickets.frostburg.edu or in-person at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 301-687-3137. (This event will not be livestreamed.)

CARL ORFF'S MASTERWORK "CARMINA BURANA" TO BE PRESENTED AT FSUOn the weekend of May 9–11, the Frostburg State University Department of Music, in conjunction with B’er Chayim Congregation in Cumberland, the FSU Departments of Visual Arts and Theatre and Dance, as well as the Butterfly Ridge Elementary School Chorus, the Allegany County Public Schools, FSU faculty and alumni, and professional musicians from around the country, will present Carl Orff’s masterwork, "Carmina Burana", his evocative—and almost primal—setting of secular medieval poetry from the region now called Germany.Performed “in the round,” in the Cordts PE Center gymnasium, audience members and performers will be intermixed around an arena for dancing, featuring original choreography by Jamie McGreevy. Original artwork, contextual to the work, its composer, and its larger societal and cultural impact, by FSU students and faculty, will be projected on screens surrounding the venue throughout the performance.Funded by a substantial grant from the Frostburg State University Foundation and contributions from many generous donors, the performances are presented free-of-charge and are open to the general public.Please join us: Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.; or Sunday, May 11, 3:00 p.m. Tickets are required, though FREE, due to space constraints, and may be acquired in advance either online at tickets.frostburg.edu or in-person at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 301-687-3137. (This event will not be livestreamed.)