{"id":4177,"date":"2013-02-12T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2013-02-12T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:00:49","slug":"nmc-concert-band-presents-portraits-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"NMC concert band presents Portraits, March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>Portraits<\/em>, a rich and colorful mixture of painting, poetry, music, and literature will unfold in Milliken Auditorium on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College on March 1 at 8:00 p.m.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Vincent Van Gogh&#8217;s paintings, <em>The Potato Eaters,\u00a0La Bercueuse, The Zuave,<\/em> and <em>Self Portrait of the Artist<\/em> were the inspiration for a\u00a0dramatic work composed by Aldo Rafael Forte in 1996 for the Heritage Air Force Band of America. The work is entitled <em>Portraits<\/em>.\u00a0The four paintings will be projected during the NMC Concert Band&#8217;s performance of the suite.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A virtual tour of the great French museum, the Louvre, will be accompanied by a descriptive piece by Norman Dello Joio entitled, &#8220;Scenes from the Louvre.&#8221; Originally the Dello Joio piece was the sound track for a 1950&#8217;s prize winning television special. It depicts several characteristic galleries as experienced by the viewer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dylan Thomas&#8217; well known poem, &#8220;Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night&#8221; inspired composer Elliot Del Borgo to compose a musical companion piece bearing the same title. It\u00a0reflects the struggles, doubts, and eventually the peace experienced by the subject in the poem.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Elegy for A Young American&#8221; was composed by Ronald Lo Presti shortly after the death of President John F. Kennedy. Following the traditional three part poetic form of the elegy. It guides the listener through a lament for the departed,\u00a0praise and adoration for the idealized life and deeds, and\u00a0consolation and solace. Texts from John Kennedy&#8217;s speeches and writtne work will accmpany the presentation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An architectural drawing by Viktor Hartmann provided\u00a0Modest Mussorgsky a somewhat tangible musical model for &#8220;The Great Gate of Kiev,&#8221; the finale of the NMC concert. Mussorgsky&#8217;s larger work, from which the &#8220;Great Gate&#8221;\u00a0is taken, was later orchestrated by Maurice Ravel and given its American debut by the Boston Symphony in 1919. \u00a0\u00a0It is the Ravel version which has made the piece a classic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mr. David Parrish, well known musician and Humanities Teacher in the Traverse City Area Public Schools, will assist\u00a0the NMC Concert Band in this multi media presentation.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Parrish&#8217;s\u00a0multi media presentations at NMC&#8217;s Life Academy programs\u00a0are very popular.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Tickets are available at (231) 995-1553\u00a0or at the door.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>$10.00 adults, $5.00 seniors and children, NMC students free with ID<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NMC Concert band presents Portraits, a rich and colorful mixture of painting, poetry, music, and literature will at Milliken Auditorium on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College on March 1 at 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,5],"tags":[550,1288],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intercom","category-student-news","tag-nmc-concert-band","tag-portraits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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