Global Musics Ensembles I

PROGRAM

Brazilian Music Ensemble

Aquarela do Brasil (1939)

Ary Barroso

Alexander La, piano

Dança dos Negros (1924)

Fructuoso Vianna

Emmanuel Wong, piano

Amor Até o Fim (1966)

Gilberto Gil

Else Langhans, voice; Graham Coster, drums; Pablo Marin-Marquesz, pandeiro; Kieran Menard, bass; Joseph Morgenstern, piano; Fred Barros, guitar

It Should (2025)

Phil Jimenez

Phil Jimenez, piano; Kieran Menard, bass; Graham Coster, drums; Fred Barros, guitar; Logan Lee, baritone saxophone

Misturada (1967)

Airto/Geraldo Vandre

Raul Rincon-Benson, alto saxophone; Graham Coster, drums; Kieran Menard, bass; Joseph Morgenstern, piano; Fred Barros, guitar

Escorregando (1923)

Ernesto Nazareth

Julian Merendino, piano

Pelo Telefone (1916)

Donga/Mauro de Almeida

 Evelyn Tao, piano

Brejeiro (1893)

Ernesto Nazareth

Oscar Hodgson, piano

Lucidez (1991)

Jorge Aragão/Cleber Agusto

Sami Anguaya, voice; Emmanuel Wong, clarinet; Raul Rincon-Benson, Daniel Kim, Logan Lee, saxophone;  Enoch Lodu, Tamsin Spiller, Andrew Mendis, trumpets;  Phil Jimenez, piano; Fred Barros, guitar; Kieran Menard, bass; Graham Coster, Else Langhans, Joseph Morgenstern, Alexander La, Claire Xiao,  Evelyn Tao, Julian Merendino, Oscar Hodgson, percussion

Sete Poderes (2023)

Alan Hetherington

Logan Lee, trumpet; Joseph Morgenstern, piano; Emmanuel Wong, Pablo Marin-Marquesz, Raul Rincon-Benson, Daniel Kim, Enoch Lodu, Tamsin Spiller, Andrew Mendis, Phil Jimenez, Kieran Menard, Graham Coster, Else Langhans, Joseph Morgenstern, Alexander La, Claire Xiao, Evelyn Tao, Julian Merendino, Oscar Hodgson, percussion

University of Toronto Steel Pan Ensemble

Tempted to Touch

Rupee

Arr. Joe Cullen

Jump in the Line

Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts)

Arr.  J. Duerden

I Gotta Feeling

 Black-Eyed Peas

Arr. Joe Cullen

Conscious Chutney

Ras Shorty I

Arr. Liam Teague

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Wallis Willis

Arr. Joe Cullen

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

W.A. Mozart

Arr. Martin Neuland

Pan in “A” Minor

Lord Kitchener

 Arr. P. McNeilly, transcribed. J. Cullen

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO STEEL PAN ENSEMBLE

Director: Joe Cullen

Ana Castro Barrios
Ruixuan (Rachel) Chen
Muriel Falkenstein
Julia Fowell
Ben Glauser
Paige Kaps
Danial Sheibani
Phoebe Lin
Joshua Manrique
Luca McCauley
Angela Ng
Alyssa Rosolowski (band manager)
Katie Wang
Fiona Xiao
Joanna Xiong

Special Guest: Yadava Mahadeo, percussion & drum set               
Course TA: Julia Monaco

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PROGRAM NOTES

Tempted to Touch

Tempted to Touch was a 2002 hit for Barbadian soca musician Rupee. It achieved number 1 on the US Dance Singles chart and is a good example of a slow soca with a reggaeton beat for steel pan. 

Jump in the Line

Jump in the Line is a Trinidad classic, also known as “Shake Senora”. This song came first in the 1946 Trinidad Carnival Road March, only a few years after the steel pan had been invented. It has been recorded by many artists, including Harry Belafonte, and has been used in the films “Beetlejuice” and “Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning.” It is often played with increasing tempo changes from slow to fast for dancing. 

I Gotta Feeling
This song was hugely successful for the Black-Eyed Peas in 2009, occupying the number one spot on the Billboard charts for 14 weeks and being the longest-running number one single that year.  In March 2011, it became the first song in digital music history to sell over 7 million digital copies in the United States. The original percussive keyboard part of the song translates well to the steel pans. 

Conscious Chutney

This piece is a favourite of the UofT Steel band. It was loaned to the UofT Steel Band and to the West Humber CI Steel Band by Liam Teague of Northern Illinois University. It is a good example of popular “chutney” music which is popular in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica and other Caribbean countries. Listen for Indian music motifs, and soca and calypso beats mixed together. Soloists today are: Joshua Manrique (double soprano pan), Danial Sheibani (soprano pan) and director Joe Cullen (drum set). 

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is a very popular gospel song, sung by Joan Baez at Woodstock, and covered by such diverse artists as Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, and Beyonce. This version is based on Eric Clapton’s reggae version that he recorded in Jamaica with members of Bob Marley’s band.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

This classic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one his most recognized compositions, the title meaning “a little night music”. It was completed in 1787 but not published until 1827. This arrangement was done by Martin Neuland, a steel band teacher with the TDSB. This will show you the versatility of the steel pan in classical music. 

Pan in “A” Minor                                     

Pan in A Minor is one of the “classics” of steel pan, performed by steel bands from Trinidad to Switzerland and everywhere in between. Lord Kitchener won the Trinidad road march competition ten times between 1965 and 1976, more times than any other calypsonian. Tonight’s arrangement was done by “PanMan Pat” McNeilly, the first steel pan teacher for Etobicoke schools. Listen for the chromatic runs and exciting rhythmic variations, a requisite in Trinidad Panorama arrangements.