Sandbox Percussion, Steven Schick, and local community percussionists
Presented as part of La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival and in partnership with UC San Diego Professor Steven Schick and Red Fish Blue Fish, Sandbox Percussion will perform the West Coast premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo’s THE JUMP UP!, a site-specific piece directed by Mark DeChiazza, shaped to accommodate the specific topography and features of its location.
THE JUMP UP! is a celebration of the joy of communal music making, composed by Douglas J. Cuomo (Doubt, Arjuna’s Dilemma) for Sandbox Percussion and volunteer percussionists from the local community. This free outdoor performance will have the musicians roaming through the Epstein Family Amphitheater, with the audience encouraged to freely move about the players, each listener navigating their own interaction with the music.
Says Cuomo, “Making music together, and particularly drumming, creates such deep and powerful connections for everyone involved. The whole point of this piece is to have as many people as possible experience that connection, by bringing together Sandbox, the volunteer players, and the audience, so that some joyful magic can happen.”
If you are 12 years or older and have some percussion experience, you are invited to join the ensemble. More information can be found HERE.
About the artists:
Described as “exhilarating” by the New York Times, the GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion champions living composers through its unwavering dedication to contemporary chamber music. Composer Douglas J. Cuomo has composed for the concert, operatic and theatrical stage, a well as for television and film, including the themes for Sex and The City (HBO); NOW with Bill Moyers and Wide Angle (PBS); music for Homicide: Life On The Street (NBC).
Confirmed Community Musicians from:
red fish blue fish
One fish two fish
San Diego Youth Symphony
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