Staff report
Students from David Morgan’s Composition Studio will have their work performed in an online concert debuting Saturday as a Dana@McDonough recital.
The composition program at the Dana School of Music focuses on exploration of the creative process and the nature and meaning of music. Composition majors acquire a breadth of knowledge and a solid technique in the service of finding a personal path available for the composer of today, including composing and arranging for instrumental ensembles of various sizes, creating electronic music and song writing.
Eight composition students will have their original music performed by other musicians or will perform their own compositions.
Dana School of Music students and faculty traditionally do 120 concerts each school year.
Some of those shows still happened in 2020-21, but the students mostly played in empty performance spaces and the listeners enjoyed them through a computer screen or a cellphone.
But students will get a few opportunities to play for people, and the community will get a chance to enjoy some free live music as Youngstown State University’s music school plans three outdoor concerts on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and a YSU Wind Ensemble performance is in the works for May 1.
Dana Director Randall Goldberg called it vital for music students to gain concert experience.
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