Roads for Solo Guitar by Jensen L. Thomassie
Performed by Daniel Sarkela
Roads is a stand alone movement piece for solo guitar based on the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. The piece is centered on the pathways we decide to take in life and the ones we chose not to follow.
“The Road Not Taken”
By Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Jensen L. Thomassie (b. 2001) is a percussionist, composer, and arranger currently based in Greenville, South Carolina. He is an active writer and arranger in the marching arts for drumline and marching band as well as an active educator with a private percussion lesson studio. His original pieces have been performed for such ensembles as brass quintet, solo guitar, wind ensemble, and solo voice and string quartet.
Thomassie is currently an undergraduate student at Furman University pursuing a Bachelor of Music in music composition and percussion performance. He has studied percussion under Omar Carmenates and Justin Watt and composition under Mark Kilstofte and Peter B. Kay. He is a member of the Furman University Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and the Paladin Regiment Marching Band, where he serves as Battery Section Leader. He also currently serves as the co-director of the annual Composing for Percussion Seminar.
As a performer, Thomassie has played under Ret. Col. John R. Bourgeois, David Holsinger, Sue Samuels, Serena Weren, Jay Bocook, and Steven D. Davis. He has performed at the Percussive Arts Society National Convention with the Furman University Percussion Ensemble premiering the piece Avian Telemetry by Matthew Burtner. He is currently a part of the Furman Percussion Quartet premiering John Psathas’s Koolish Zein - for solo percussion, percussion quartet, and digital audio as part of a multi-university commission.
Thomassie is also an active member of the pageantry arts, working with Fat City Drum Corps, the New Orleans Saints Drumline, for 3 years, where he was a music writer and arranger as well as a performer on the tenorline. Thomassie was also a member of the Louisiana Stars Drum and Bugle Corps tenorline in 2020.
Equipment:
2 AKG C414's
Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 3rd Gen
Shot on an Iphone XR and Ipad Air
Edited in Reaper and Shotcut
Purchase link: www.jensenltho...
Негізгі бет Roads for Solo Guitar by Jensen L. Thomassie
Пікірлер: 1