What: Sheridan College Bass Day

When: Sat 09/17/22

Where: Sheridan College, 1 Whitney Way, Sheridan, WY.

Streaming?: Yes! Zoom ID is posted below.

How: Register for FREE TICKETS HERE!

Guest Clinician: Orin O'Brien, former member of the NY Philharmonic and co-chair of the Julliard Double Bass Department.

Schedule (Tentative):

• 10:00 am - 10:45 am Welcome and Bass Concert I (Recital Hall)

  • Zoom ID: https://nwccd.zoom.us/j/91811579069

  • Dr. Mark Elliot Bergman with Loretta Tonak, piano

  • Concert Program Slides

    • Valse Miniature (Serge Koussevitzky)

    • Le Gai Cascaseur (Pierre Max Dubois)

    • Suite for Unaccompanied Double Bass (John Leach)

      • andante

      • allegro

      • larghetto

      • recitative and march

    • Elegy (Giovanni Bottesini)

    • Concerto for Double Bass; I. Allegro Moderato (J.B. Vanhal)

    • Five Eldritch Horrors (Mark Elliot Bergman)

      • Tentacles

      • Nameless and Faceless

      • The Antediluvian

      • Beast from the Stygian Depths

      • The Whispering Miasma

    • Odd Man Out (Vernon Elliot)

• 11:00 - 12:30 pm WY All-State Rep and All-Northwest Rep masterclass with Mark Elliot Bergman and Ryan Walker (Instrumental Rehearsal Room)

  • Suggested Fingerings for Excerpts

  • Zoom ID: https://nwccd.zoom.us/j/98352113710

• 12:30 - 2:00 NO HOST LUNCH (nearby restaurants include Qdoba, Jimmy Johns, Sapporo, and Taco Johns. Cartwells lunch is also available on campus in the TRCC building on campus)

• 2:00 - 3:00 Read bass chamber music (Room: Instrumental Rehearsal Room)

• 330 - 4:00 Concert II (Recital Hall)

  • Zoom ID: https://nwccd.zoom.us/j/96792018486

  • Concert Slides

  • Dale Bohren (Dragonetti Waltzes)

  • Ryan Walker (Dittersdorf Double Bass Concerto, movement II) with Loretta Tonak, piano

  • Rod Jost (Amazing Grace)

  • Other performers TBA

• 4:30 - 6:00 Masterclass with Orin O'Brien (Recital Hall)

  • Zoom ID: https://nwccd.zoom.us/j/95902799408

  • Masterclass Slides

  • Charles Laxague (Petite Suite m. 1 and 3 by Frederick Boaden) w/ Loretta Tonak, piano

  • Nathan Shaw (Capuzzi Double Bass Concerto; movement 1)

  • Dale Bohren (Otello [see p.4] excerpt)

  • Caitlin Webber (Bourees 1 and 2 from Bach's cello suite no. 3)