An Evelyn Glennie Birthday Celebration
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
If you are a fan of Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie (and who isn’t?), join our celebration of her 1965 birthday. A Bach Two-Part Invention starts us off.
Banjo player Bela Fleck joins Evelyn Glennie, who plays marimba in this version of Bach’s A-Minor Invention, BWV 784. More percussion will pop up later. Meanwhile, we hear from that incorrigible humorist Franz Joseph Haydn, as Gerard Schwarz conducts the Scottish Chamber Symphony in Symphony No. 21, where the third-movement Minuet can’t stay serious as long as those pesky triplets keep bopping up. Slice a piece of cake for Gerard, too, who is 58 today!
But we promised more percussion from Glennie. Okay. We hear her own composition, “A Little Prayer,” and Paul Smadbeck’s “Rhythm Song,” for both of which she again plays marimba. David Horn’s “Reaching Out” features Evelyn as a strictly one-person rhythm section, employing a variety of those toys only percussionists get to play with.
Too cool!
Banjo player Bela Fleck joins Evelyn Glennie, who plays marimba in this version of Bach’s A-Minor Invention, BWV 784. More percussion will pop up later. Meanwhile, we hear from that incorrigible humorist Franz Joseph Haydn, as Gerard Schwarz conducts the Scottish Chamber Symphony in Symphony No. 21, where the third-movement Minuet can’t stay serious as long as those pesky triplets keep bopping up. Slice a piece of cake for Gerard, too, who is 58 today!
But we promised more percussion from Glennie. Okay. We hear her own composition, “A Little Prayer,” and Paul Smadbeck’s “Rhythm Song,” for both of which she again plays marimba. David Horn’s “Reaching Out” features Evelyn as a strictly one-person rhythm section, employing a variety of those toys only percussionists get to play with.
Too cool!
