Inaugural Season 1995-'96

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Concert 1 - November 9, 1995. Hulsey Recital Hall.

On Entering a New Soundscape Michael Angell
Slow Train to New Orleans Ryan Law/arr. by David Schuessler
Ode to Darth Vader Matthew Smith
go your Own way Lindsay Buckingham/arr. by Valerie Waters
 Kinetoxic-Bimodal Rick Nance
Variations on a Theme by Paganini Ensemble (Angell, Schuessler, Waters, Smith, Nance)

Check out this snazzy photo of the first MIDI Ensemble.

 

Concert 2 - March 7, 1996. Hulsey Recital Hall.

 Milky Way Overlay

  1. Plutonian Cyberboogie
  2. Saturn's Wave
  3. Greetings from Mars
  4. Mercury's Dancing Corpse
Ensemble (Larry Owen, Matt Smith, Michael Angell, Rick Nance)
Metaphor as Mistake Rick Nance
Ever Matt Smith

Vignettes*

  1. Untitled
  2. Scenes in a Bar
  3. Pud
Rick Nance/Eleanor Allen, Michael Angell/John Trobaugh, Larry Owen/Carson Lamm.
 Seven Days Larry Owen
Intervals of Invention Michael Angell

* This work was a collaboration between the MIDI Ensemble and UAB Art Department Students. Special thanks for Dr. Marie Weaver for her assistance in coordinating this effort.

Concert 3 - May 22, 1996. Hulsey Recital Hall.

O How I Love Jesus Harold Wesley
Keith Torques Kelly; Kelly Spins Out Rick Nance
Gotta Blame Something* David Schuessler
Blue Ripples Larry Owen
Audio Agro Darci Alexander
Come in for a Landing **
Carnie on the Prowl
The Dinner Party
Valerie Waters
 Four Ways to Seven Ensemble (Schuessler, Owen, Alexander, Wesley)

* Special thanks to guest poet, Bo Butler; and to guest narrator, Jason C. Kennah.

**This work is a collaboration with UAB student artist, Donna Swearingen. Thanks, also, to guest guitarist, John English.

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