DiBartolo, Anthony M.

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Ithaca CollegeDigital Commons @ ICAll Concert & Recital Programs Concert & Recital Programs3-6-2010Graduate Recital: Anthony M. DiBartolo,percussionAnthony M. DiBartoloFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programsPart of the Music CommonsThis Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted forinclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC.Recommended CitationDiBartolo, Anthony M., "Graduate Recital: Anthony M. DiBartolo, percussion" (2010). All Concert & Recital Programs. 4049.https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/4049GRADUATE RECITAL Anthony M. Di Bartolo, percussion Hockett Family Recital Hall Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:00 p.m. PROGRAM The Anvil Chorus (1991) Scirocco (2001) Prim (1984) Etude 12 (1976) Rimbasly (1992) t David Lar'r (b. 1957) Michael Burritt (b. 1962) Askell Masson (b. 1953)) Gordon St01f (b. 1952) Daniel McCarthy (b. 1955) Graduate Recital presented in partial fulfillment for the degree Master of Music in Percussion Performance. Anthony Di Bartolo is from the studio of Gordon Stout. Photographic, video, and sound recording and/ or transmitting devices are not permitted in the Whalen Center concert halls. Please turn off all cell phone ringtones. Program Note The Anvil Chorus When percussionist Steve Schick asked me to. write him a solo ~··"piece I wanted to do something that showed percussion's ~. ;connection to real life activities. I didn't want to work with the pretty instruments, like vibraphone or chimes, that were invented so that percussionists could play politely with other musicians. I wanted to write a piece that reminded the listener of the glorious history of percussion - that since the beginning of time people have always banged on things as a result of their professions. Then I remembered that I had once read a book on the history of blacksmithing, and I had become particularly interested in how medieval blacksmiths used song to help them in their work. Although small jobs could be accomplished by individual smiths, larger jobs created an interesting problem - how could several smiths hammer on a single piece of metal without getting in each other's way? Smiths solved this problem by singing songs together which would control the beat patterns of the hammers. There was a different song for each number of participating blacksmiths -obviously, a song that allowed for three hammer strokes would be confusing and even dangerous if used to coordinate four smiths. My solo percussion piece The Anvil Chorus also uses a "melody" to control various beat patterns. The "melody" is played on resonant junk metals of the percussionist's choosing, and, by adding certain rules, it triggers an odd accompaniment of non-resonant junk metals, played both by hand and by foot. -David Lang 

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Graduate Recital: Anthony M. DiBartolo, percussion

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