Kevin
Rabold
Senior
Percussion Recital
This
senior recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the B.M. in Music
Performance
Bliss
Hall 2326
Saturday,
March 27, 2010
3:00
p.m.
Program:
Merlin (1985) Andrew
Thomas (b.1939)
Based off of the poem Merlin by Edwin Arlington Robinson, which tells a story of the
destruction of King Arthur’s court.
The first movement represents a scene where Sir Gawain is nearing
Camelot and searching for it on the horizon with a sense of impending doom. The music is representative of this
with sustained chords and a slow melody.
The second movement deals with the breaking up of man’s ideas of order
as time goes by, with the piece being chaotic in nature.
Verfolgen (2010) Kevin
Rabold (b.1988)
The German word for chase or pursue. I started out writing the piece with
only the idea of passages of fast singles in mind, but added to this idea as
time went on. It was only later
thinking about how the piece sounded as a whole that it reminded me of a chase
in some way, hence the title.
Captain Marvel (1972) Chick
Corea (b.1941)
Performed and recorded by the group Return to
Forever, Captain Marvel appears on the album entitled Light as a Feather. Light as a Feather is the group’s first
album and fuses elements of Latin and jazz music. The group includes Chick Corea, Joe Farrell, Stanley Clarke,
Airto Moreira, and Flora Purim.
Nathan
Douds, piano
Nadine
Enberg, bass
Joe
Scheller, sax
Bob
Young, percussion
Tinplay (2004) Per
Andreasson
Tinplay is Per Andreasson’s first work for
percussion. The title can be taken
literally as the players are required to play on an assortment of tin cans and
metal objects. This piece appears
on the album ‘Slagverk’ from Naxos.
Dustin
May
Matt
Hayes
Bob
Young
Stubernic (1995) Mark
Ford (b.1958)
A marimba trio written for a Musser 4 1/3-octave
marimba that is shared by all three players. It is dedicated to Stefan and Mary K. Stuber and their
musical studies in Nicaragua. This
piece is made up of three sections with the middle section consisting of a
cadenza featuring the center performer.
Bob
Young
Tetsuya
Takeno
Hymn for an Angelic Child (1997) Gus
Burghdorf (b.1973)
A chorale piece dedicated to Gus Burghdorf’s
daughter Amy.
For
my Grandfather:
Raymond
R. Beatty
August
2nd, 1928 – February 24th, 2010
Biography:
Kevin is a senior percussion performance major
at Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music. Born and raised in Franklin Park, PA
Kevin has studied piano since age five and percussion since age nine. He is a 2006 honors graduate of North
Allegheny High School where he performed in the wind, jazz, and percussion
ensembles and was section leader in the Tiger Marching Band. During his sophomore year he served as
principal percussionist for North Allegheny’s production of Titanic, which won the 2005 Gene Kelly
Award for best all-student orchestra.
He was twice selected as a PMEA all state musician and as a MENC all
eastern musician. He has also
performed with the River City Youth Brass Band. Upon graduating from North Allegheny, Kevin was presented
with a Pennsylvania State Senate Meritorious Citation for his musical
accomplishments. Kevin now serves
as head percussion instructor of the North Allegheny Tiger Marching Band.
At Dana, Kevin performs as section leader in the
Symphonic Wind Ensemble, is a member of the percussion ensemble, and also
performs with a jazz combo. In the
past he has performed with the brass ensemble, jazz combos along with jazz
ensembles I, II, and III, the Dana Symphony Orchestra, and YSU Marching
Pride. He also serves as president
of the Youngstown Percussion Collective.
Independent of the university Kevin was a member of Matrix Indoor
Percussion during the 2007 season.
Kevin has received the John Phillip Sousa Award
and the Frank Farina Fine Arts, Blackwood Theater Organ Society, Tuesday
Musical Club, Pittsburgh Piano Teacher’s Association, and the Dana School of
Music scholarships.
Kevin wishes to thank his many teachers past and
present for sharing their knowledge and talents:
Barbara Kelly, P.J. Gatch, Paul Evans, Todd Stefan, Stephen Baldanzi, Roger Humphries, Glenn Schaft, Nathan Douds, Stephen Gage, and Rob Ferguson. He also thanks his family and friends for their love and support.