Jca Orchestra at Cambridge YMCA Family Theater

CA ORCHESTRA in concert, Friday, June 20, 8PM at Cambridge YMCA Theater, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. The Jazz Composers Alliance will present music by resident composers Mina Cho, David Harris, Darrell Katz, Bill Lowe, Warren Senders and Norm Zocher Tickets are $14, and $10 for seniors and students. A concert of new music for jazz orchestra. Composition, will include director Darrell Katz’s Rats Live On No Evil Star, a concerto (if you will) for marimba, violin and jazz orchestra. LEG (Latest Ethiopian Groove) by and featuring conduction by David Harris, Basant ki Mehfil, by Warren Senders, in which he places himself in an Indian village, Faith On The Earth by Mina Cho, and a new composition by trombonist Bill Lowe. The JCA continues to explore a wide range of compositional, orchestrational, and improvisational techniques. “… the JCAO seamlessly moved from composition to improvisation, chordal improvisation to free extemporization,wide-open structure to well-ordered chaos. The music was daring but incredibly disciplined. Even in their wildest abandon, every musician demonstrated self control in the service of expression and musical goals larger than themselves.” Aesthetic, Not Anesthetic Perfesser M. Figg...

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CA ORCHESTRA in concert, Friday, June 20, 8PM at Cambridge YMCA Theater, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. The Jazz Composers Alliance will present music by resident composers Mina Cho, David Harris, Darrell Katz, Bill Lowe, Warren Senders and Norm Zocher Tickets are $14, and $10 for seniors and students. A concert of new music for jazz orchestra. Composition, will include director Darrell Katz’s Rats Live On No Evil Star, a concerto (if you will) for marimba, violin and jazz orchestra. LEG (Latest Ethiopian Groove) by and featuring conduction by David Harris, Basant ki Mehfil, by Warren Senders, in which he places himself in an Indian village, Faith On The Earth by Mina Cho, and a new composition by trombonist Bill Lowe. The JCA continues to explore a wide range of compositional, orchestrational, and improvisational techniques. “… the JCAO seamlessly moved from composition to improvisation, chordal improvisation to free extemporization,wide-open structure to well-ordered chaos. The music was daring but incredibly disciplined. Even in their wildest abandon, every musician demonstrated self control in the service of expression and musical goals larger than themselves.” Aesthetic, Not Anesthetic Perfesser M. Figg

rumpets-Gary Bohan, Forbes Graham, Mike Peipman; French Horn-Dirk Hillyer
Trombones-David Harris, Bob Pilkington, Bill Lowe
Winds - Philippe Cretin, Arthur Falluca, Hiro Honshuku, Rick Stone, Melanie Howell-Brooks
Rhythm-Bruno Raberg, Mina Cho, Mike Conners, Ryan Edwards, Vessela Stoyanova, Norm Zocher
Violin-Helen Sherrah Davies; Voice-Warren Senders, Rebecca Shrimpton

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