Join us in Burke Hall of Dinosaurs to hear mesmerizing melodic percussion works composed and performed on marimba and vibraphone by graduate students from the Yale School of Music! This short program will be performed twice, at 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm.
Ouroboros
The symbol of Ouroboros: a serpent eating its own tail. It has its roots in ancient mythology and has been seen throughout the arts for centuries. The Ouroboros is symbolic of cyclic events, typically pertaining to life, death, and even rebirth. Composed by Kyle Rappe and performed by Kyle Rappe and Judy Hu, Ouroboros was the 1st prize winner of the 2024 Universal Marimba Composition Competition.
furrows into ploughshares
The title is a nod to the famous Isaiah 2:4 passage. The live performer – Matt Boyle – and the technologically facilitated duplicate “magic vibraphones” are participants in a ritual of slow state transformation. Composed by Ben Rieke, the piece rhymes with itself perpetually.