By Stephanie Viloria
Staff Writer
CSUB held a Faculty Concert titled “Inspiration to Realization” at the Dore Theater on Friday, Sept. 26 at 7:30-9pm. The concert welcomed students as well as outside guests for live musical performances performed by the school’s very own music department faculty members. The concert consisted of 10 compositions, 8 of which were played live.
Soo-Yeon Park Chang was responsible for the organization of the event. Jim Scully and Doug Davis composed the performed pieces. Two special compositions were played over the speakers to demonstrate how similar Scully and Davis’ special electronic compositions were despite the different methods used to create them. The tone of the pieces varied from playful to ominous as the concert progressed.
The faculty members involved included Audrey Boyle on the flute, Kristi Van Kopp on the clarinet, Ron Christian on the trombone, Louis Wildman on the marimba, Vicki Wikoff as soprano, Robert Provencio as tenor, Julia Lawson Haney on the violin, Alex M. Wilson Jr. on the cello, James Dethlefson on the double bass, Soo-Yeon Park Chang on the piano, and Paulette Shires as a guest artist on the viola.
Mike Kwon, President of Associated Student, Inc., was one of the many guests that attended the event. “It was interesting to see how talented our faculty is,” said the 23 year-old senior philosophy major. “It’s important to come out to support the faculty. Since they support us I think students should be supporting them.”
Another guest by the name of Alana Lim, 19, a sophomore business major enjoyed the event as well. As a piano player herself, she especially appreciated the event. “I saw the flyers around school and I couldn’t help but go,” Lim said. “My favorite piece was “Bouncing About”. It was very fun, just as the title says.”
The composition piece ‘Bouncing About’, performed by faculty members Chang and Haney, was one of the beautiful performances that the audience really appreciated.
As the first concert for the 2014-2015 academic year it provided great entertainment for those who performed as well as spectated. The program pamphlet that was provided at the event included not only the names of the compositions but also mini biographies of the performers. It also provided some inspiration and background that were behind the compositions.
Following the performance, Scully and Davis welcomed Chang to the stage to collect a bouquet of flowers as a gift of gratitude for making the whole event possible. As summed up by Dr. Chang in the program’s pamphlet, said that she hoped that the audience would enjoy a musical journey “going from the composer’s inspiration realized in his composition, to the performer’s inspired realization of the music, and to hopefully [be] inspired by the realization of the composer’s inspiration to the listener.”
