Jonathan Tirado, a talented percussionist, and arranger from the San Antonio Marching Percussion Ensemble and a professor at the University of Texas are presenting the saturated and vivid musical performance. The performance includes compositions of famous composers and percussionists all over the world. The oriental motifs of Keiko Abe, Toru Takemitsu, and Michio Kitazume are performed together with Someone to Watch Over Me by American composers Ira and George Gershwin, Pezo Da Concerto by Serbian author Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, and Kembang Suling by New Zeland composer Gareth Farr.
The program is presented on the vast range of musical instruments the compositions were performed initially. They are marimba, vibraphone, multiple percussion, and snare. Takemitsu’s Rain Tree is accompanied by Gabe Cardona, Marimba, and Jared Paul, Marimba. Farr’s Kembang Suling is accompanied by Molly Baskin, flute.
The magical rhythms of past and present enchant and lead to the marvelous world of music, invoking the imagination, raising tempos in the listener’s soul. Brilliant compositions thoughtfully chosen and artistically performed by Tirado, raise deep feelings and emotions, summoning something profound that unites with nature’s keynotes. The music leads the listener through the time and space to other places, vividly depicting moods, making you feel and see something across the world.
See the beauty and power of nature and human feelings; see the thin matters hidden behind it. The mystic sounds of marimba bring up the association to celestial spheres and cosmic notes that penetrate everything in the world, reminding that the natural magnificence that surrounds us is a part and a reflection of space. Listening to percussion itself brings up the ancient memories of a shamanic nature about the dangerous but exciting world where humanity was looking for its particular place.