The Smithsonian has an exhibit opening down in Perry this weekend, and there is a lot of music associated with the exhibit. The exhibit celebrates roots music in Georgia.
September 8th @ 4pm–5pm PAC New Harmonies Exhibit officially opens to the public from 4–5pm.
Here is the website if you need more information.
www.perryga.com. There is a downloadable PDF with all the details about the exhibit AND a listing of all the concerts.
The concerts below would count for the class. NOTE THAT SEVERAL CHARGE ADMISSION - and that these are hardly the only possibilities!
Some info from the site - the capitalization errors come from the copy/paste process, but I don't want to take the hour to fix them all!:
September 8tH • 6pm • perry HigH Auditorium
1307 NortH AveNue • perry
Grammy nominated artist, Robert McDuffie, performs Vivaldi’s Four
Seasons with the McDuffie Center String Ensemble. Tickets for sale:
$10 advance / $15 at the door. Tickets sold at Welcome Center and
Perry Area Historical Museum.
Robert McDuffie was born in Macon, Georgia into a very musically
gifted family; his mother Susan
and younger sister Margerie are
pianists while Robert became a
violinist. He went to New York to
attend the Julliard School. Robert
McDuffie has since become an
internationally, renowned violin-
ist, playing as a soloist in major
orchestras around the world. He
was also nominated for a Grammy
in 1990 for his performance of
concertos by Leonard Bernstein
and William Schumann.
McDuffie
founded the Rome Chamber
Festival in 2003, an idea he had
created the year before while on
sabbatical in Rome. “Its identity
adheres to a true international
ideal by inviting musicians from all over the world.” The festival is a
five-day musical event held in June that presents five different concert
programs of both classical and contemporary pieces to sold-out audiences.
In 2004, McDuffie began serving as the head of the Robert McDuffie
Center for Strings at Mercer University and as a Distinguished University Professor of Music. The Center gives students conservatory-quality
music training and opportunities to perform in festivals like the Rome
Chamber Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. Enrollment is limited
to 26 students: twelve violinists, six violists, six cellists, and two double
bassists.
In December of 2009, McDuffie performed the World Premiere
of Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 2, “The American Four Seasons”
in Toronto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the direction of
Peter Oundjian. The work had been composed for McDuffie and featured
several solos for violin.
September 11tH • 12NooN
Gene Salyer will perform on the saxophone, flute, and clarinet Gene Sayler of Perry is a professional musician who plays flute, clarinet, alto and tenor saxophone. He has been a member of several different Air Force bands since his enlistment. He was accepted into the Air Force Academy band and performed with them for fourteen years. During thattime he was made woodwind supervisor of the Symphonic band, lead alto saxophone of the Falconnaires Dance Orchestra, and leader of the “Moods in Blue” show band. He has played with various famous singers like Bob Hope, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Rosemary Clooney.
September 22Nd • 2-4pm
Joey Stuckey Jazz Trio performs
Senate Records recording artist, Joey Stuckey, performs with his Jazz Trio a variety of standards, along with selections from his new CD “Mixture.”
I'm the keyboardist for the Joey Stuckey Band.
Mixture is the album that Joey and I
co-wrote/co-engineered/co-produced/co-probably several other things!
October 1st • 8pm - 10pm
Georgia Big Band will perform Dixieland music from 8 – 8:45pm
and Big Band music from 9 – 10pm
The Georgia Big Band came together in 1988 out of the Dublin Jazz Band. The band brings together professional musicians from all over Middle Georgia who want to preserve the big band tradition. Made up of seventeen instrumentalists and a vocalist, the band has many different musical backgrounds from band directors to former military
October 14tH • 3pm
FirSt metHodiSt cHurcH oF WArNer robiNS
205 NortH dAviS drive
Performance by Otis Murphy, a world-class saxophonist, Yamaha
Performing Artist, and Indiana University Professor. Admission $10.
