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DCC Music School Faculty Concert Features New Sound: Blue Grass
Release Date March 27, 2007
The Dutchess Community College Music School’s next Group Faculty Concert will feature the new sound of the Bluegrass ensemble No Brakes, as well as a mix of classical, jazz, folk, pop, and American musical theater music, on Saturday, April 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ritz Lounge, Dutchess Hall, at the main campus in Poughkeepsie. The DCC Music School concert series supports the school’s MusicLink Scholarship Fund, which provides free lessons for economically disadvantaged children. Tickets are $10, $5 for children, seniors, faculty, and staff of DCC. For more information about the concert or the DCC Music School, phone Julie Wegener, Music School Director, at (845) 431-8916.
No Brakes features Frank Kara on mandolin, Gary DiGiovani on banjo, Rusty Boris on bass, and Eric Spaulding on guitar. Spaulding, the band’s regular guitarist, is a guest performer for the faculty concert. Other members of No Brakes are all on the DCC Music School faculty where they teach private lessons. In addition, Boris will teach the DCC Music School’s new bluegrass ensemble class this summer. That four-session class will help students learn to play better rhythm and improvise better solos. Boris is a versatile musical performer, arranger, and composer best recognized for his signature bass solos in a variety of musical styles. For the concert on April 14, he will also join a musical trio featuring harmonica player David Laks and percussionist Melissa Lovaglio. That ensemble will be playing jazz and blues.
Soloists for the DCC Music School Group Faculty Concert include Elisabeth Romano, bassoon, playing Brazilian Choros (literally “cries”) for solo bassoon by Francisco Mignone; Ariana Barkeshli, piano, playing “A Night in a Persian Garden” by Behzad Ranjbaran; Laura Doe, voice and guitar, performing music by Joni Mitchell as well as songs from the musical theater tradition; and David Laks performing solo harmonica.
Pianist Kumiko Imamura continues the DCC Music School’s tradition of performing one well-known student piece – this time “Fur Elise” by Beethoven – as well as “L’isle joyeuse” by Debussy.
The DCC Music School is a noncredit program of the Dutchess Community College Office of Community Services which provides individual and group lessons on a variety of instruments and voice, special children’s programs such as Kindermusik and Suzuki, group classes in a variety of music subjects and styles, and the summer programs including the Piano Institute and the Performing Arts Institute. For more information about the DCC Music School, phone Julie Wegener, Music School Director, at (845) 431-8916.
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