The audience at the Totally TCP Concert will hear music like it's never been played before - literally. That's because the concert, part of the federally funded "Composers for Kids" program and The Commission Project, features the original compositions of five area composers who have been working with music students at five local schools. In addition, students all composed a "pentatonic scale" of music that was woven into one of their composer's pieces. The "Pentatonic Composite" will have its world premiere at the concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 8, at Spencerport High School, 2707 Spencerport Road. The concert is free and open to the public. Over the course of the year, Neeck visited Spencerport's Cosgrove Middle School and worked with music students of Dr. Marcia Bornhurst Parkes. The program is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and other national and local organizations. "This project really encompasses all that we try to do with our music students -- they learn how music is composed, they get to be creative and apply classroom lessons to their own compositions, they learn to work on a team-based project and they get to perform with other musicians in front of a live audience," said Parkes. Other schools performing at the concert and their composers: Webster Thomas High School, working with Composer Kevin Nitsch; Greece Arcadia Middle School, Howard Rowe; Rochester School of the Arts, Paul Smoker; and Abelard Reynolds School #42, Tim Sullivan. The concert also features the Bob Sneider/Paul Hofmann Duo, which also will perform original work, and the Eastman School of Music Jazz Guitar Quartet. For information on the concert, call 349-5104. |
