The Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensembles, directed by Terry Longshore, will present “Revolution” featuring some of the earliest music for concert percussion ensemble. John Cage famously said, “Percussion Music is Revolution,” and this concert will feature some of the most ground-breaking works of the first dozen years. The first concert in our 2019-20 season, it will be bookended in the spring with “Evolution,” featuring recently composed music, including the winning piece from the inaugural 2019-20 SOU/Left Edge Percussion Percussion Composition Competition.

Repertoire to be featured will include:

• Amadeo Roldán – Ritmicas 5 & 6 (1930)

• Edgard Varèse – Ionisation (1929-31)

• William Russell – Three Dance Movements (1933)

• Henry Cowell – Ostinato Pianissimo (1934)

• Johanna Magdalena Beyer – Percussion, Opus 14 (1939)

• Lou Harrison – Canticle No. 3 (1940)

• John Cage – Third Construction (1941)

• Alan Hovanhess – October Mountain (1942)