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Still spaces for credit! TTU Celtic Ensemble & Elegant Savages Orchestra

Join our Jolly Pirate Crew! TTU Celtic Ensemble & Elegant Savages Orchestra

 

The TTU Celtic Ensemble is recruiting for Fall-Spring 2016-17!

 

MUEN 3110 (16167)/5110 (21252)

 

Seeking singers, players, and dancers; open to participants from across the TTU campus

 

The TTU Celtic Ensemble (http://ttucelticensemble.comhttp://youtube.com/ttucelticensemble; Facebook:http://tinyurl.com/2ft5myw) is a medium ensemble of singers, players, and dancers dedicated to exploring the dance music & song of the Seven Celtic Nations (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, Galicia, and the Isle of Man) and related traditions. All band, orchestra, and folk instruments and voice-types welcome. Many opportunities for soloes, chamber pieces, and orchestral tuttis.

 

The Celtic Ensemble concertizes, tours, and participates in collaborative events throughout the academic year (concerts, dances, theatrical shows, film scores, etc). Members are encouraged to explore both primary and secondary skills (other instruments, song, dance, etc) and some traditional instruments are available for loan and learning. The CE also works closely with other Vernacular Music Center Ensembles, with the TTU Irish Set-Dancers and Caprock Morris student organizations, and other performance and arts organizations throughout the region.

 

Director: Dr Christopher J Smith (http://tinyurl.com/389zgkx)


Playlist of repertoire for the Fall 2016 semester: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw6Auy2SqK8Iw1X7SB0CLg-J-ucuAkOf_

 

Rehearsals: at TTU School of Music; Sundays 5-7pm (tutti) & Thursdays 7:30-9pm (reserved as sectional rehearsal time)

 

Annual CE retreat: Sunday August 23 2015

 

Performances 2016-17 (including but not limited to):


· July 29-31 Balfolk 2016 music & dance weekend: see https://www.facebook.com/events/1566338400363137/

· October 2 Fall concert

· October 14 Nosferatu at the Museum at TTU

· October 20-23 Nosferatu tour, New Mexico

· December 10 Celtic Christmas XVI

· February 26 Winter concert

· April 23 Spring concert



Also see “The Elegant Savages Orchestra” http://elegantsavagesorchestra.com;

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Elegant-Savages-Orchestra/359738340792720)


The Elegant Savages Orchestra: Symphonic folk from a lost world

 

The ESO is a unique ensemble of winds, strings, and rhythm instruments, voices, and dancers, providing classical and sight-reading musicians the opportunity to explore various traditional and vernacular music “by ear” genres in a chamber orchestral format: strings (violin, viola, ‘cello, double bass), winds, and percussion. Section leaders are recruited from the TTU Celtic Ensemble and Baltic Ensemble, but participation is open to musicians from across the TTU campus. Repertoire is drawn from Celtic, English, Appalachian, Balkan, Caribbean, and Scandinavian music & dance traditions, and the Orchestra collaborates extensively with composers, songwriters, choreographers, and virtuoso soloists to create unique symphonic realizations of their creative visions.

 

Galleries at

 

http://galleries.tifholmes.com/TTUVernacularMusicCenter/2015-Caprock-Celtic-Christmas

http://galleries.tifholmes.com/TTUVernacularMusicCenter/A-Celtic-Chamber-Orchestra

http://galleries.tifholmes.com/TTUVernacularMusicCenter/Echoes-of-Bassanda/

 

recent concert video (PBS television special): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIe7EoKi8M

 

Facebook “Event” at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1524496817856326/

 

Past programs have included: “A Celtic Chamber Orchestra” (symphonic folk), “Echoes of Bassanda” (alternate history steampunk music), “Dancing Aloud” (collaboration with TTU Theatre & Dance), Nosferatu (original full-length orchestra score for the 1922 horror classic), “Into the West” (Irish-language songs and tunes), “A Celtic Chamber Orchestra” (symphonic folk), “An Irish country Christmas” (seasonal), "The Borders Imagined" ("big ballads" of England and Scotland), "Across the Western Sea" (Anglo-Appalachian transports), "Atlantic Celts" (music of Galicia), "Dancing at the Turning of the Year" (pan-Celtic dances), "Across the Western Marches" (music of Wales & Cornwall), "Fest Noz" (music of Brittany), "Crooked Tunes" (Irish/Balkan exchanges), "Pirates, Freebooters, and Jolly Jack Tars" (the Celts at sea), and more.

 

Admission by interview/audition.

 

Contact Dr Smith (christopher.smith@ttu.edu) for more information.

 

 

 

 

Posted:
8/29/2016

Originator:
CHRISTOPHER J Smith

Email:
christopher.smith@ttu.edu

Department:
School of Music

Event Information
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Event Date: 8/29/2016

Location:
School of Music, Texas Tech University


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