WindSync: Bagatelles
Thursday, March 10, 2022 7:30pm
Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH)
Matchbox 4
Bagatelle: a short, unpretentious piece of instrumental music
Houston’s wind quintet brings their 2021-2022 touring program home in this concert featuring some of the most dramatic and whimsical masterworks in the wind quintet genre. The six bagatelles by Gyorgy Ligeti combine dark humor with touching folk melodies and avant-garde sounds. Samuel Barber's Summer Music is described by its composer as "evocative of summer -- summer meaning languid, not killing mosquitoes”. Full of leisurely melodies and playful rhythmic motifs, Summer Music was written to fully utilize the varied tone and technical abilities of the players and instruments of the New York Wind Quintet, whom Barber composed it for in 1956.
The concert will also highlight WindSync's own arranging talents and commissioning activities through a performance of Mason Bynes' Two Stepping (2021), and a selection of evocative works from the 18th century by French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau arranged specifically for WindSync by bassoonist Kara LaMoure. Two pieces originally for harpsichord and a third from his opera Les Boréades make up Pastoral Suite: Le Rappel des oiseaux, Musette en rondeau, Contredanse très vive.
Tickets are $25 General Admission and $10 Students.
Masks are required inside the theater.
Houston’s wind quintet brings their 2021-2022 touring program home in this concert featuring some of the most dramatic and whimsical masterworks in the wind quintet genre. The six bagatelles by Gyorgy Ligeti combine dark humor with touching folk melodies and avant-garde sounds. Samuel Barber's Summer Music is described by its composer as "evocative of summer -- summer meaning languid, not killing mosquitoes”. Full of leisurely melodies and playful rhythmic motifs, Summer Music was written to fully utilize the varied tone and technical abilities of the players and instruments of the New York Wind Quintet, whom Barber composed it for in 1956.
The concert will also highlight WindSync's own arranging talents and commissioning activities through a performance of Mason Bynes' Two Stepping (2021), and a selection of evocative works from the 18th century by French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau arranged specifically for WindSync by bassoonist Kara LaMoure. Two pieces originally for harpsichord and a third from his opera Les Boréades make up Pastoral Suite: Le Rappel des oiseaux, Musette en rondeau, Contredanse très vive.
Tickets are $25 General Admission and $10 Students.
Masks are required inside the theater.
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ABOUT THE COMPOSER:
Mason Bynes is a composer, vocalist and multimedia artist from Sugar Land, TX. In a post - modern tradition, she pulls from various stylistic sources, blurring the line between traditionalism and modernism. Her goal in creating music and art is to bridge the gap between genre and performance setting and venue, synthesizing genre, sound aesthetics and visual curations to bring listeners, and ultimately people, together. She received her Master of Music in Composition from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and she also holds a Bachelor of Music in composition from the University of North Texas.
During her undergraduate studies, Mason has collaborated in projects for commercial music, concert music and media. As a film composer, her success includes being selected for the 2020 Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase for Priyanka Shah’s film, “Cross Roads”. Mason has also written for a cappella pop vocal group, the UNT Green Tones, who performed her music in competition for the International Championship of Collegiate A Capella.
Mason’s curiosity fuels her pursuit of collaboration in a myriad of artistic mediums, including film, spoken word, music for acoustic performance and even the culinary arts. Her passion for bringing listeners together has sparked a variety of commissions with various ensembles and composer led initiatives, including: The Westerlies & Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT), The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Ex-Aequo, Bass Players for Black Composers, and Lumedia Musicworks. Recently, Mason’s music has been featured with the North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC), the International Society of Bassists, Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, BBC Radio 3, IDAGIO Live, and Green Leaf Music Podcast. She has also appeared in different interviews with CBS, NBC -DFW and Fox 4News. Additionally, Mason was honored to have been the University of North Texas College of Music's 2021 Commencement Speaker.
In addition to serving on the film/tv composition team at Raging Cloud Studios, Mason also works as a Career Services Advisor at the Berklee Career Center. In this role, she enjoys serving her musical community by educating Berklee's undergraduate, graduate and online students from Berklee and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, on trends and issues in their chosen fields of study, providing knowledge that can help them achieve a competitive edge, and connect them to alumni and employers for information, mentorship, jobs and internships.
This project is supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and Houston Arts Alliance.