{"id":7838,"date":"2016-10-12T14:52:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2016-10-12T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:52:35","slug":"percussion-power-kopanya-launch-new-lunchtime-concert-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2016\/10\/12\/percussion-power-kopanya-launch-new-lunchtime-concert-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Percussion Power: Kopanya launch new Lunchtime Concert series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to percussion ensemble Kopanya, who delivered a mesmerising, hypnotic and in places downright exuberantly\u00a0dynamic concert to open our new Lunchtime Concert series.<\/p>\n

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Kopanya ensemble in John Cage’s ‘Quartet for Percussion’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Woolrich’s\u00a0Mustering Drum<\/em> provided an energetic opener to a concert showcasing the diversity of music for percussion, including John Cage’s\u00a0Quartet for Percussion<\/em> from 1935, with instrumentation sensitively organised by the ensemble to yield an hypnotic second movement laden with gongs. The group showed how a marimba could be turned into a shimmering curtain of sound in Peter Garland’s\u00a0Apple Blossom<\/em>, which saw all four members grouped around the instrument, and the concert concluded in epic fashion with traditional drumming from Senegal.<\/p>\n

\"img_0758\"A dramatic way to launch our new series: our thanks to Kopanya! Next up is the Kentish Piano Trio in music by Beethoven and Suk on Wednesday 9 November<\/strong> – more details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sponsors of the Lunchtime Concert series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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