Kyle Kindred: Press

"In Store" was really a huge music project performed that night. All kinds of sounds could be heard amid the performance, such as the tick-tock sound of pocket watches, wrist watches, alarm clocks and even the siren of an ambulance. Saville chose it because it was composed by Kansas native Kyle Kindred and would be the first time that the piece was performed in Kansas. They invited Kindred to the concert, so the audience had the opportunity to hear how the composer came up with this song.

I’ve mentioned much excellent and memorable music, but the real peaches of the week were the concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings. The former featured largely performers from the Atlanta-based new music group Bent Frequency. The works included Tsontakis’ Seven Knickknacks for Violin and Viola, Kyle Kindred’s piano trio Inundación, and Carl Schimmel’s rite.apotheosis, all of which brought together concerns for color, rhythmic energy, and motion.

The concerts Thursday afternoon and evening featured more excellent performances by SHSU's wind players. Their student quartet, the Raven Brass, submitted a very professional rendition of Martin Blessinger's Fanfare for Brass Quintet on the afternoon concert. This program also featured faculty clarinetist Patricia Card playing David Dzubay's virtuosic Solus II, which was based on material from the composer's first clarinet concerto. That evening the SHSU Wind Ensemble impressed with the level of their playing, stretching their wings on David Dzubay's Fanfares on Re for Ray and Myaku, as well as Kyle Kindred's In Store. These works all showed off the band's capabilities and made for a terrific program.