A MARIMBA CHRISTMAS

Sunday November 22, 2009
4:00 pm

Beckwith Recital Hall is located in the Cultural Arts building on Randall Drive, UNCW campus.

Free

Parking is free and convenient.

For more information, call the Department of Music at 910/962-3415.

A percussion concert of holiday music, performed on marimbas and other keyboard percussion instruments by John Rack, UNCW students, and members of the local percussion community.



PROGRAM TO BE SELECTED FROM THE FOLLOWING

9 Christmas Carols for Mallet Ensemble

Christmas Songs for Mallet Quartet

March of the Toys

I Saw Three Ships

Carol of the Bells

Two Christmas Lullabies

Renaissance Carols: A Seasonal Medley

Coventry Carol

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JOHN RACK is Professor of Percussion, Music Education, World Music and Dance, and Coordinator of Music Education

As a percussionist, John Rack's performing experience ranges from playing with the UNCW Faculty Brass Quintet and Early Music Consort, to being soloist with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and the UNCW Wind Symphony. He has performed with a diversity of artists including Johnny Mathis, Tim McGraw, the McLain Family Band (bluegrass), and Mac Frampton and the Hollywood Hills Orchestra. He has served as timpanist and/or percussionist with orchestras throughout the Northeast and South, including the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, Oleander Chamber Orchestra, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Austin Symphony (TX), Altoona and Nittany Valley Symphonies (PA), Norwalk, New Britain and Waterbury Symphonies and New Haven Ensemble for New Music (CT), Long Bay Symphony (SC), Princeton Pro Musica, Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and South Jersey Symphony (NJ).

His percussion training includes a master's degree in performance, studying with Fred Hinger, former timpanist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera. Rack teaches percussion lessons, percussion methods class, percussion pedagogy, and directs the percussion ensemble, which includes at times a Central American marimba ensemble and Ghanaian drumming group.

His articles have been published in the Music Educators Journal, North Carolina Music Educator, The Instrumentalist, Jazz Player, and Percussive Notes. His music is published by Colla Voce Music. Formerly Rack was percussion instructor at Penn State University and Susquehanna University, and instrumental music teacher at Eastern Regional High School in New Jersey. He taught and performed as a percussionist for eight summers at the New England Music Camp.