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Berklee Performance Center Concerts
November 1- Fall Together - The Jazz Composition Dept. and a faculty Jazz
Orchestra will perform Ken Pullig’'s extended composition “Politickle Your Fancy”,
a 30-minute musical satire based on the presidential campaign and November
election. Additionally, there will be performances of pieces by Greg Hopkins, Ted
Pease, Bob Pilkington, Marc Rossi, Bruce Thomas, and Phil Wilson. The en-
semble is a jazz orchestra made up of Berklee faculty, many of them in feature
roles. Other featured guests include vocalist Bob Thompson and indo-azz
saxophonist Phil Scarff.
November 2- Panicamilincina/.WAV-Guitar, bass drums trio under the direction
of Francesco Guaina plays jazz originals influenced by Italian, Middle East, and
European Folk Music and interpreted with dynamic interply among trio members.
Then percussionist/composer Vessela Stoyanova presents the .WAV ensemble-
two Bulgarians, a Macedonian, two Greeds, a Swiss and three Americans mixing
surf rock and eastern flavors in a style that attempts to fuse eastern and western
musics.
November 8 - Live from CWP, it’'s Wednesday Night!
The Contemporary Writing and Production Department faculty showcase their
compositions and arrangements in their annual concert. Featuring a veritable
potpourri of musical styles ranging from jazz and fusion to calypso and rhumba-
guaguanco, performers will include Berklee College alumni and Boston Pops
vocalist, Robin McElhatten, as well as many of Berklee’s renowned faculty. CWP
Department Chair Jay Kennedy directs.
November 9 - Mirando al Sur/The Return of Zorro
Faculty vocalist-composer Mili Bermejo and double bassist Dan Greenspan
present their sextet in performance as part of Latin Culture Week activities.
Featured in this project is Bermejois fellow countryman Claudio Ragazzi, of film
scoring renown whose haunting compositions and fiery guitar-playing define the
musical geography and catalyze the group’s performances. The sextet is com-
pleted by pianist Tim Ray, accordionist Evan Harlan and drummer Steve Langone.
Repertoire includes zambas, chacareras and tangos: traditional as well as those
by a generation of contemporary Argentinean writers, and features original
compositions by Ragazzi with lyrics by Bermejo.
Then faculty vibraphonist Victor Mendoza leads his Latin Jazz Sextet performing
original music from his latest CD Black Bean Blues. This group includes faculty
members saxophonist Jim Odgren, bassist Fernando Huergo, Egui Castrillo,
percussion as well as Alon Yavanai, piano, and Steve Langone, drums.
Berklee
COLLEGE OF MUSIC
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215-3693
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November 1- Fall Together - The Jazz Composition Dept. and a faculty Jazz
Orchestra will perform Ken Pullig’'s extended composition “Politickle Your Fancy”,
a 30-minute musical satire based on the presidential campaign and November
election. Additionally, there will be performances of pieces by Greg Hopkins, Ted
Pease, Bob Pilkington, Marc Rossi, Bruce Thomas, and Phil Wilson. The en-
semble is a jazz orchestra made up of Berklee faculty, many of them in feature
roles. Other featured guests include vocalist Bob Thompson and indo-azz
saxophonist Phil Scarff.
November 2- Panicamilincina/.WAV-Guitar, bass drums trio under the direction
of Francesco Guaina plays jazz originals influenced by Italian, Middle East, and
European Folk Music and interpreted with dynamic interply among trio members.
Then percussionist/composer Vessela Stoyanova presents the .WAV ensemble-
two Bulgarians, a Macedonian, two Greeds, a Swiss and three Americans mixing
surf rock and eastern flavors in a style that attempts to fuse eastern and western
musics.
November 8 - Live from CWP, it’'s Wednesday Night!
The Contemporary Writing and Production Department faculty showcase their
compositions and arrangements in their annual concert. Featuring a veritable
potpourri of musical styles ranging from jazz and fusion to calypso and rhumba-
guaguanco, performers will include Berklee College alumni and Boston Pops
vocalist, Robin McElhatten, as well as many of Berklee’s renowned faculty. CWP
Department Chair Jay Kennedy directs.
November 9 - Mirando al Sur/The Return of Zorro
Faculty vocalist-composer Mili Bermejo and double bassist Dan Greenspan
present their sextet in performance as part of Latin Culture Week activities.
Featured in this project is Bermejois fellow countryman Claudio Ragazzi, of film
scoring renown whose haunting compositions and fiery guitar-playing define the
musical geography and catalyze the group’s performances. The sextet is com-
pleted by pianist Tim Ray, accordionist Evan Harlan and drummer Steve Langone.
Repertoire includes zambas, chacareras and tangos: traditional as well as those
by a generation of contemporary Argentinean writers, and features original
compositions by Ragazzi with lyrics by Bermejo.
Then faculty vibraphonist Victor Mendoza leads his Latin Jazz Sextet performing
original music from his latest CD Black Bean Blues. This group includes faculty
members saxophonist Jim Odgren, bassist Fernando Huergo, Egui Castrillo,
percussion as well as Alon Yavanai, piano, and Steve Langone, drums.
Berklee
COLLEGE OF MUSIC
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215-3693
o
