News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 4/11/03   Click on image for publication quality photo PERCUSSION “BASH” – Southeastern Louisiana University students who are studying percussion under music instructor Terrance Mahady will present an end-of-the-semester concert at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, at the Music Recital Hall. The performers include, from left, Stephen Hux, Harahan; Andrew Robin, Madisonville; Kevin Estoque, New Orleans; Becky Daigrepont, Metairie; and Ian Perkins, Zachary. PERCUSSION STUDENTS PRESENT “BASHING, CRASHING” CONCERT APRIL 16       HAMMOND -- Students studying percussion at Southeastern Louisiana University will present a “bashing, crashing” concert on April 16, said percussion instructor Terrance Mahady.       Mahady said the concert’s popularity has outgrown the Music Building Annex band room where his students have traditionally been staging their end-of-the-semester program. It will be presented instead at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall in the Ralph R. Pottle Music Building.        “From the opening fanfare to the ending number, there will be plenty of bashing and crashing, but it won’t be just boom and bang,” said Mahady. He said the program will include a variety of themes from New Age to Frank Zappa to Metallica.       The New Age style will be illustrated in solo performances featuring the marimba by Stephen Hux of Harahan and Andrew Robin of Madisonville, and piano-accompanied xylophone solos by Robin and Ian Perkins of Zachary. In the ragtime piece, “Nola,” Hux will play the xylophone accompanied by a trio of marimbas.       An arrangement by Chris Cucullu of Hammond of “One” will fast forward the audience to the rock drumming of Metallica. “It’s a double bass drum workout,” Mahady said. “Chris has been playing drums since age five, but these are his first formal drum lessons.”       Angie native Rachel Pittman will perform a timpani and snare drum duet with Ritesh Durgapersad of Gonzales. Graduate student Kevin Estoque of New Orleans will perform the first movement from Werner Thasichen’s “Concerto for Timpani.”       Frank Zappa’s “The Black Page” is the concert finale. Mahady said he based his arrangement of the piece on a recording of seven live performances by Zappa’s bands. “The title,” he said, “is a description of a musician’s fear of a page of music so full of notes that it appears black.”       The work begins with the original drum set solo played by Estoque. In a second version,  the melody is performed on bells, xylophone, vibraphone and marimbas and with Rebecca Daigrepont of Metairie on electric bass.        Mahady said graduate assistant pianist Hristo Birbochukov of Haskovo, Bulgaria,  percussionists Thomas Miller and Scott White, and technical director Steve Foster will assist with the concert. For additional information, contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184. Return to News Releases