Baylor Percussion Group in Concert

Due to the current pandemic situation, the Baylor Percussion Group’s first concert of 2021 will be presented without an in-person audience. However, viewers at home can enjoy the performance by going to the School of Music website for a streaming opportunity.
This concert will be streamed to the public on Thursday, March 11, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Directors of the eight-member Baylor Percussion Group are Todd Meehan, Associate Professor of Percussion, and Chris Sies, Adjunct Lecturer of Percussion.
Opening their program will be the Toccata for Percussion Instruments by Mexican composer Carlos Chávez. This three-movement piece is scored for six musicians, who play a wide variety of percussion instruments. Chávez wrote his Toccata in 1942, but it was not performed in public until six years after that. Now it is included among the composer’s most popular works.
Next, the Baylor Percussion Group will play two of the six percussion duos from Rrrrrrr, a work from 1982 by German-Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel. The movements to be heard on the Baylor concert are “Rigaudon” (a lively French social dance from the seventeenth century) and “Rutscher” (an early German folk dance, similar to a gallop).
The program will conclude with Refrakt for marimba quartet by American composer and percussionist Andrea Venet, who serves as Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of North Florida.
This concert by the Baylor Percussion Group was pre-recorded in Jones Concert Hall. To join the virtual audience, simply visit the School of Music website by clicking here.