Local composer Clyde Tipton's work will be featured in an upcoming concert at Olney Friends School.
Local composer Clyde Tipton featured in third summer recital at Olney Friends School
Two years ago at this time, Barnesville composer Clyde Tipton was teaching music at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. The family relocated to Ohio in part so their son Bryan could attend Olney Friends School. This summer, Clyde is teaching musical composition and improvisation at Friends Music Camp on the Olney campus.
Tipton is one of several visiting musicians performing in a recital by Friends Music Camp staff on Wednesday, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Collection Room of the Main Building on the Olney Friends School campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
Tipton, on piano, and Philip Tietze, on viola, will perform a piece Tipton wrote over the last two weeks entitled "A Walk around the Lake."
The piece is a reflection on Tipton's many meditative walks around the lake at Barnesville Memorial Park. "I usually go by myself, and I think my own thoughts," he says.
Of the composition, Tipton says, "It's a piece about outer nature and inner nature at the same time. I will use not just the 'outside' but also the inside of the piano - not just the keyboard. I will also strum the strings like a harp, pluck them, scrape them, and use drum mallets to pound them."
Additional concert selections will include:
A Mozart clarinet trio, performed by Francis Yun on piano, Martha Hyde on clarinet, Philip Tietze, viola
Schubert Quintet in C, Movements III and IV, performed by Henrik Karapetyan, violin, Maria Bessmeltseva, violin, Philip Tietze, viola, Lisa Liske-Doorandish, cello and Miriam Liske-Doorandish, cello
Selections from Fünf Rückert Liedr, Minnita Daniel-Cox, soprano, and Nicholas Hutchinson, piano
In the Garden of Allah by Don Henley, performed by three Friends Music Camp students and many staff members
Across the Great Divide by Kate Wolfe, performed by Carolyn Stanley, banjo and vocals, and Sharon Stacy Blackwell, guitar and vocals
The fourth and final concert in the series will be Tuesday, August 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Collection Room of the Main Building at Olney Friends School.
The work of violist Philip Tietze will be featured at the final concert. Tietze is professor of viola at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and former faculty member at West Virginia University. He has performed as a member of many leading professional ensembles, including the Denver Symphony, the American Sinfonietta, the Grand Teton festival orchestra and has also served as principal violist of the Wichita and Colorado Springs Symphonies. He will perform his original composition, "Shoah, Lamentation for Solo Viola."
Additional selections for the final concert will include the following:
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano Mov. II by Poulenc, performed by Adam McCord, soprano saxophone, Jacob Somerson, bassoon, Nicholas Hutchinson, piano
Scaramouche - Braziliera by Milhaud, performed by Adam McCord, alto saxophone and Nicholas Hutchinson, piano
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Mov. III by Poulenc, performed by Pam Wilkinson, clarinet and Nicholas Hutchinson, piano
Friends Music Camp brings 80 students ages 10-18 from around the country each summer to the Olney Friends School campus for a month-long immersion program in music education and performance.
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