Ithaca College: Percussion Ensemble

This evening’s concert features a collection of smaller percussion ensemble works, ranging from duos to quartets. Percussion music is often associated with a playfulness, and that is very present throughout these pieces, as the performers bubble water through tubes, bump into each other while playing, and play a wide variety of “non-musical” instruments, including bottles, pots, bowls, pipes and slats of wood. Though the element of play presides,...