Family Performance with String Quartet ETHEL 3/9

ETHEL’s Cultural Journey

ETHEL presents program of contemporary compositions that have been influenced by popular or folk traditions from around the world. Composers include Marcello Zarvos (Brazil), Hollis Taylor (USA/Eastern Europe), Timo Alakotila (Finland), John King (Mississippi Delta/USA), Carlo Mombelli (South Africa), Rodney Yazzie (Navajo Nation) and ETHEL members. Students will hear aspects of blues, rock, and pop, as well as folk traditions from all around the world. Students will learn how composers throughout history have integrated aspects of folk and popular music, and how this process of stylistic integration continues in today’s concert music.