THE CREATURES IN ROOM 642 INREACH CONCERT
The Creatures in Room 642 by Frank Proto was the featured work for Seeing With Your Ears, the theme of Thursday’s JUMP! Inreach concert. Students from St. Stephens Middle School, Roberts Elementary School, and Sheltering Arms seniors heard a wide variety of musical styles, and learned how musicians create different characters and moods in music.
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Student performers Zebediah Upton (trumpet), Peter Seymour (bass) and Brian Vogel (percussion) started the program with improvisations of several musical styles: classical, jazz, Latin and country music.
The Creatures in Room 642 featured these same musicians as they used different kinds of music to tell a story about a room at school. It began with the chaotic sounds of a classroom out of control. Each subsequent movement of the piece was a musical portrait of various character types and creatures that students might encounter in their everyday lives at school: the picture of beautiful, but sad Lindsay was painted by soulful, classical singing of the trumpet, the non-human nocturnal creatures in the room came alive with the percussive sounds of the guiro, and cool-man Carlo was depicted by a jazzy movement.
Student presenter Abigail Jones and the performers showed how musicians create a variety of sounds on their instruments. The concert finished with an up-tempo jazz improvisation featuring composer Frank Proto and Shepherd School trumpet professor Marie Speziale. |
