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: 11/25/02   SOUTHEASTERN STUDENTS PLAN PERCUSSION CONCERT       HAMMOND -- Drums, marimbas, vibraphone, kettle drum set, snare drum and tom-toms will all be featured in the Percussion Class Concert to be held in the Southeastern Louisiana University Pottle Music Building band room on Tuesday, December 3.        The 7:30 p.m. concert is free and will include solos and duets in a variety of styles performed by Southeastern percussion students, said percussion instructor Terrance Mahady.       “The highlight of the concert,” Mahady said, “is a rousing vibraphone and marimba duet” by graduate student Kevin Estoque of New Orleans and Dale Rhodes of Slidell.        “They did a bang-up duet performance of Brahm’s ‘Hungarian Dance No. 5' at last year’s concert,” Mahady said. This year the pair will team up for “Carousel,” which he said features “fast and furious running passages and mellow improvised solos.”        The concert will begin with Angie native Rachel Pittman’s performance of a movement from William Kraft’s “French Suite” for multiple tom-toms. The marimba, which Mahady described as “a large and more mellow relative of the xylophone,” will be played with four mallets by Rhodes, Ian Perkins of Zachary, and Andrew Robin of Mandeville. Estoque will use the two mallet marimba technique in his performance of the first movement from the “Creston Marimba Concertino.”       The concert will also include solos by Robin on a traditional marching snare drum, and Perkins, who will perform a sonatina for timpani. Estoque will play a four timpani piece “composed of rhythmic patters which evolve through a technique called ‘metric modulation,’” Mahady said.        Marc Marullo of Mandeville will perform his own composition, “Starr Time.” “This is an improvised solo for drum set based on Beatle Ringo Starr’s only recorded drum solo,” Mahady said.       For additional information about the concert or Southeastern’s percussion program, contact Mahady at 985-549-2184. Return to News Releases