Musicraft
with Francesca Swann
Sunday February 12, 2012
The Scruncheons Percussion Ensemble "Breaking New Ground"
From toys behaving badly after dark in Istvan Marta's "Doll's House Story" to the soothing pattering of raindrops in Alice Gomez "Rainbows," Memorial University's Scruncheons Percussion Ensemble, directed by Rob Power, explores a world of exotic sound in their concert Breaking New Ground. Highlights include world premieres of works by members of their own ensemble: Katie Lawlor's "Ditty for Five" and Andrew Rideout's "Bigfoot."
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Sunday February 5, 2012
Around the Bay at Trails, Tales and Tunes
Jonny Harris is your on-stage host at Trails, Tales and Tunes for "Around the Bay" - homegrown songs that wax lyrical about life in rural Newfoundland. Scott Blanchard and Peter Jacobs headline the show with sidemen Tony Delaney and Bernie Blanchard
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Sunday January 29, 2012
MUN School of Music Amateur Chamber Music Competition (Part 2)
Musicraft concludes its coverage of Memorial University's first Amateur Cham
ber Music Competition. This week a guitar quartet (Elliot Butt, Marijn Companjen, Steve Hoskins and Andrew Noseworthy) and a piano trio (Carole Bestvater, Rachel Gauntlett and Haeyoung Yoon) perform at the DF Cook Hall in the School of Music.
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Sunday January 22, 2012
MUN School of Music Amateur Chamber Music Competition (Part 1)
Memorial University's School of Music launched a new competition for Amateur Chamber Music Ensembles this year. Over the next two Sundays we'll hear the four groups that made it into the finals. This week the Paddywagon Trombone Quartet (Aaron Good, Aiden Hartery, Stephen Ivany and Jonathan Williams) and a piano quartet (Dominic Greene, Alex Cho, Ben Alstad and Lindsey Wareham).
