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woRLd MusiC PeRCussion enseMBLe
Hafiz shabazz director

THE SOUNDS OF BRAZIL:
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
david newsam guitar
fred Haas piano & saxophone
tim gilmore drums
Luã Yvys Kirk Mattar vocals & guitar
Michael zsoldos saxophone & flute
Ron smith saxophone

This performance is made possible in part by the William D. 1905 and Besse M. Blatner Fund No. 1,
the Bruce Webb Eaken 1926 Memorial Fund and the Hopkins Center Performance Fund No. 2.

wednesday, november 16, 2011 | 7 pm
Spaulding Auditorium | Dartmouth College
program
The program order will be announced from the stage.

Pagode Percussion samba

Forro Brazil Hermeto Pascoal

O morro Nao Tem Vez

Diabinho Jacob de Bandolim

Brigas Nunca Mais Antonio Carlos Jobim

Favela Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frevo Egberto Gismonti

Berimbau Baden Powell

Labareda Vinicius de Moraes

Canto de Ossahna Baden Powell

Lapinha Virginia Rodrigues

Um A zero Pixinuinha & Benedito Lacerda

program notes
the sounds of Brazil rhythms and beats of Africa were integrated with
To mention Brazil is to recall images of Rio’s European classical and popular music to create a
carnival with its long parades, floats, elaborate sound and dance tradition that is uniquely
costumes, and samba percussion ensembles. In Brazilian. This musical integration has given the
our performance this evening we have combined world a rich cultural mosaic fabric of song, dance
European and African influences creating a and music.
traditional and contemporary sound of Brazil.
This evening you will have an opportunity to
During the African and Portuguese slave trade, experience instrumental music, song and dance.
Africans brought music from Angola and the The content of our program presents four classic
ports of East Africa to Latin America. Today Brazil genres of Brazilian music: samba, bossa nova,
is recognized as having the largest African forro and frevo.
population of any country outside of Africa. The
about the artists
david newsam guitar is a graduate of Berklee Bertoncini, John Proulx and many others. Jazz
College of Music in Boston where he studied with guitarist Pat Metheny calls Fred Haas “a totally
Jim Kelly, Larry Baione and William Leavitt. David world-class saxophone player.” Trumpeter Clark
recently completed his studies in the Modern Terry, said, “You won‘t find a more capable jazz
American Music program at Longy School of player and teacher than Fred Haas, and that‘s a
Music where he studied with Thom Noren and fact!” A Dartmouth graduate (‘73), Fred teaches
Charlie Banacos. He currently works as an saxophone, jazz piano, jazz improvisation, jazz
assistant professor in the guitar department at history, and music theory at Dartmouth College.
Berklee where he has taught since 1989. He is He also mentors jazz combos as part of the
also employed as a senior lecturer in music at Performance Lab program in the Music
Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he Department. He is the founder of the Interplay
teaches guitar and jazz improvisation. David Jazz Workshop, an intensive holistic workshop in
created the jazz guitar program at the University jazz that integrates yoga, meditation and tai chi
of New Hampshire where he teaches, directs with the study of improvised music. Interplay is
the UNH Jazz Guitar Ensemble and coaches open to vocalists and instrumentalists of all ages
jazz ensembles. He is a former faculty member and levels of experience and is now in it’s 16th
of the National Guitar Summer Workshop. David year. Fred has recorded many CDs, including
performs solo and group engagements several for his own JazzToons label. He is also an
throughout New England. He has performed in active performer and composer, traveling
concerts and clinics with many noted musicians, internationally to play and teach with a variety of
among them guitarists Jim Hall, Bucky Pizzarelli jazz groups. And finally, jazz piano legend Oscar
and Howard Alden, pianists Dave McKenna and Peterson said, “Fred, for whom I have the great
James Williams, drummers Ed Shaugnessy, Louis love as a friend and great respect as a player.”
Bellson, Bob Moses and Alan Dawson, and jazz
legends Clark Terry, Phil Wilson, Joe Williams tim gilmore drums is adjunct instructor at
and Milt Jackson. He has extensive theater Plymouth State University for percussion. A
experience including performances with Jack member of Brownstone Recording Artists, the
Jones, Mitzi Gaynor, Dianne Carroll, The Harry Skoler Jazz Quartet and CCMS Musicians of
Fifth Dimension, The Shirrelles, and Carol Wall Street, Mr. Gilmore has performed with the
Channing. Recent concert appearances include Cape Ann Symphony, Symphony by the Sea, the
performances at Berklee College of Music, Paul Madore Chorale and Boston Percussion
Longy School of Music, Dartmouth and St. Ensemble. He has also performed with Lester
Anselm Colleges, The House of Blues and the Bowie, Marion McPartland, Fred Hersch, Tower
Boston Hatch Shell. David is the author of the of Power, Tiger Okoshi and Warren Vache. He
book, Making Money Teaching Music, published received his Bachelor of Science degree, magna
by Writer’s Digest Books and has produced the cum laude in elementary/music education from
instructional DVD Accelerate Your Classical Salem State College and pursued further study in
Guitar Playing, for Rittor Music in Japan. composition and jazz performance at Berklee
College of Music.
fred Haas saxophone and piano has performed
with the likes of Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Pat Luã Yvys Kirk Mattar vocals and guitar is a
Metheny, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson, Joe Morello, brazilian producer, arranger and singer/
Don Cherry, Karrin Allyson, Matt Wilson, Gene songwriter raised in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Being
about the artists continued
the son of two acclaimed brazilian artists, music Link TV. Michael’s passion for teaching led him
was always part of his life. Lua plays electric/ back to Vermont. He is currently on the teaching
acoustic guitar, piano and sings. He has faculties of the University of Vermont, Interplay
performed with many artists in Brazil. He is Jazz Camp, and Festival Internazionale Del
currently majoring in Contemporary Writing & Sassofono, in Faenza, Italy. He has conducted the
Production at the Berklee College of Music in District Jazz Bands in Vermont districts IV, V, and
Boston, MA. VI, and has been a repeat clinician for the
Vermont and Maine Music Educators
Michael zsoldos saxophone and flute was Associations.
introduced to music through his father’s vast
record collection, which included the music of Ron smith saxophone has performed with
Charlie Parker, Felix Mendelssohn, Billie Holiday, notable legends over the life of his musical
the Beatles and Glenn Miller. Michael attended career: Dizzy Gillespie, Nate Adderly, Ray Brown,
the Eastman School of Music where he studied Miles Davis, Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, BB
classical and jazz saxophone with Ramon Ricker. King and Al Steward. Ron has performed with
He later studied with Andrew Speight and Hafiz Shabazz and the World Music Percussion
Branford Marsalis at Michigan State University Ensemble over the past 14 years.
and has a master’s degree in music theory. In
2010, Michael released his debut CD Off the Cuff Hafiz shabazz director, master drummer and
with drummer Matt Wilson, bassist Martin Wind, director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble,
and pianist Miro Sprague. Off the Cuff has been is an ethnomusicologist, percussionist,
playing on radio stations throughout the US performer, and lecturer. He teaches courses on
and Canada to great reviews and was on the improvisation and non-Western music. He has
nominating ballot in four categories for the 2011 studied at the University of Ghana and the
Grammys. Michael can also be heard with jazz Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He has studied
vocalist Samirah Evans and her Handsome Devils. in Cuba with master drummers and folklorists
The band recorded a live CD, Hot Club, at the and has performed with Max Roach, Lionel
Vermont Jazz Center that was released in January Hampton, Julius Hemphill and Alhaji Bia Konte,
2011. Since 2004, Michael has been a performer Master Cora and Griot of Gambia, West Africa.
and instrumental arranger for the Dartmouth Professor Shabazz toured for many years
College Gospel Choir and Dartmouth Idol, with Wind and Thunder, a group devoted to
featuring Walt Cunningham. Michael’s playing improvisational jazz and non-Western music. He
and arranging can be heard on Cunningham’s has toured France, the Caribbean, and
2010 album When All God’s Children. In 2008, extensively throughout Canada and the United
they performed before capacity crowds at the States. He has taught at the University of
Chicago House of Blues and Jazz at Lincoln California at Berkeley, Duke University and
Center. In January 2009, the choir shared the lectured in over 500 schools and universities. He
stage with Bebe Winans, Carole King, and is an initiated member of the Ancestral Shrine of
Yolanda Adams at President Barack Obama’s the Ashanti Nation in Ghana, West Africa, has
Inauguration festivities. In his work as composer, authored articles for the Black Music Research
Michael’s original score is featured in the award- Journal, and was a consultant with John Chernoff
winning documentary Birdsong and Coffee: A in the writing of African Rhythms and African
Wake Up Call, which has aired both on PBS and Sensibilities.
WorLd music percussion ensembLe
Hafiz Shabazz director

David Newsam guitar
Fred Haas piano and saxophone
Ronald Smith saxophone

Tim Gilmore drums
Luã Yvys Kirk Mattar vocals and guitar
Michael Zsoldos saxophone and flute

Christina Chen percussion and piano
Si Jie Loo percussion and vocals
Justice Amoh percussion
Doris Pu marimba and percussion
Zackary Wood percussion
Zeviel Kane percussion
Ying Qi Wong percussion
Yi Yang percussion
Long Sha percussion

Dancers:
Marian Gutierrez ‘13
Danielle Coleman ‘12
Andrenne Coleman ‘13
Angilique Coleman ‘13
Cassidy Griffin ‘12
Ana Sofia de Brito ‘12
Jessica Reyes ‘12
woRLd MusiC PeRCussion
enseMBLe
Hafiz sHaBazz director
Sat | FeB 18 | 8 pM | SpaulDing auDitOriuM
This concert combines Asian and American music while
highlighting talented graduating seniors Si Jie Loo and
Christina Chen who have contributed much to the ensemble
during their Dartmouth years—and have inspired others with
their interests in both Eastern and Western music.

deC 15 & 16
7 PM
deC 17
tHe CHRistMas ReVeLs
2 & 7 PM an eLizaBetHan CeLeBRation of tHe winteR soLstiCe
The Revels North chorus celebrates the season with English period songs, carols and
deC 18 dances from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
1 & 5 PM
sPauLding

HeRMeto PasCoaL
tHu Since bursting onto the international scene on Miles Davis’ album Live-Evil, Hermeto
aPR 5 Pascoal has “inspired the jazz world for more than 40 years, and continues to do so” (The
7 PM Times, UK). Known in Brazil as o Bruxo (The Sorcerer), he and his tireless sextet of multi-
sPauLding instrumentalists conjure music ranging from folkloric to futuristic playing on a battery of
instruments both standard and whimsical (hub caps, teapots, bowls of rocks).

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