Music for Miles Returns at Waterloo Arts

Music for Miles Returns at Waterloo Arts

Percussion Ensemble Creates a Joyful Noise. Bring the Kids.

Some M4M followers will remember a performance by Duo Anime, the percussion duo that made music with everything from drums to clapping hands. The group has expanded into four as the Cleveland Percussion Project, with Andrew Pongracz, Bruce Golden, Dylan Moffitt and Luke Rinderknecht, and it plans a lively concert for M4M’s Fall opener on Sunday September 13 at 4 pm.

It also plans a generous intermission to allow for a kid-friendly musical activity designed by Soo Ji Lee, the Korean pianist and student who is working with Waterloo Arts as an intern. And there will be cupcakes. (For grownups, the adjoining Callaloo Café will be happy to provide glasses of wine and other refreshments; indeed, you might stay after the concert for some Caribbean food.)

Instruments will include marimbas, a xylophone, vibraphone and glockenspiel, plus snare drums, bass drums and some “unique instruments” still to be revealed. The playlist will be at least as interesting as the instruments:

"Four Horsemen" Rudimental Quartet by Mitch Markovitch (snare drums, tenor drum, bass drum)

"Old Times" Percussion Quartet by Gennady Butov (vibes, xylo, marimba, bells, assorted small instruments)

"Living Room Music" by John Cage ("found" percussion and speech quartet)

"Percussion Music" by Michael Colgrass (temple blocks, tom toms)

"Xylophonia" by Joe Green (xylophone, marimbas, drum set)

"Apple Blossom" by Peter Garland (marimbas)

"Children's Songs Set 1" by Chick Corea (marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel)

Various transcriptions of Renaissance, baroque, classical, and romantic melodies for mallet quartet.

Like all M4M concerts, this one will be performed at the Waterloo Arts building, 15605 Waterloo Road (corner of E156); will be free and informal; and will be accompanied by a show in the gallery, “Bottled Water,” an experimental installation that “helps to describe the human struggle to control and submit to nature.” The installation will begin during the September 4 Walk All Over Waterloo; during the October 3 WAOW, the finished space will be revealed. And you’ll never look at your bottle of water in quite the same way again.

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL

Black Squirrel Wind Quartet Sunday October 11

The M4M season continues on Sunday October 11, with the Black Squirrel Wind Quintet from KentState; the university's School of Music sidewalks have for decades hosted the famous black squirrels, and the school is so proud of that distinction that its Wind Faculty took the name for their new ensemble. The Black Squirrel Winds Quintet is made up of members of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music: Danna Sundet (oboe), Kent Larmee (horn), Diane McCloskey Fiocca (flute), along with avid soloist Amitai Vardi (clarinet) and Akron Symphony member Mark DeMio (bassoon). (Black squirrels are melanistic versions of the species Sciurus carolinensis – the eastern gray squirrel - which may or may not be relevant.)

November 8 Kent Brass Quintet

The Kent Brass Quintet is a faculty ensemble-in-residence in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at KentState. The KBQ plays both original music and transcriptions from a wide variety of styles and periods ranging from the Renaissance to jazz and new compositions. In addition to concerts and recitals, the quintet enjoys giving performance/clinics for high school music programs throughout the region. Kent Larmee, horn; David Mitchell, trombone; Michael Chunn, trumpet; Kenneth Heinlein, tuba; John Brndiar, trumpet.

M4M concerts are presented with the support of Local 4 Music Fund, the Music Performance Trust Fund, the Arts Collinwood Friends’ Committee, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and Ohio Arts Council.

Waterloo Arts is at 15605 Waterloo Road, corner of E156. waterlooarts.org; 216-696-9500.