Contributing Editor

Abundant applause went out after “Duos and Trios,” the final performance of the school year for the Faculty Concert Series. The School of Performing Arts presented its final Tech faculty and guest performance at 7:30 p.m. last Thursday in the Visual Arts Center’s main gallery. “The performances overall were fantastic,” Tracy Reeves, a sophomore music major, said. “The pieces were almost flawless.” The evening started out with “Arpeggione,” played by the first duo of Lawrence Gibbs on the clarinet and Alan Goldspiel on the guitar. “It was amazing because of everyone’s great talent,” Kayla Lemoine, a senior biomedical engineering major, said. “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5” also featured Gibbs, also an associate professor of music, and Goldspiel, also an associate professor of music. At the end of the second number the musicians left with a bow and were replaced by the next duo, Gary Westbrook playing the marimba and vibraphone, and Randall Sorensen on the trumpet. “We all enjoy having these faculty concerts,” Sorensen, an assistant professor of music, said. “By playing, we hope to set an example for our students.” This duo performed “Infinity’ by Daniel McCarthy. The piece had Westbrook, also an assistant professor of music, moving quickly with four mallets in hand during each movement. The last of the three movements of “Infinity,” entitled “Good Harbor,” started out with a loud bang and ended with the same intensity and precise timing. Sorensen was part of the next duo as well. This time he performed with Joe L. Alexander, playing the tuba to the piece “Silhouettes.” The vibratos and variations of the tuba and trumpet ended with more bows and many claps of the audience. The applause continued for the next set of musicians, the trio. The trio consisted of Sue Holder, a professor of music, on the piano, Ann Sorensen, a local violinist, playing the violin and Karl Puljak, an assistant professor of architecture, playing the cello. “The [trio] was magnificent,” Reeves said. “You can tell the cellist is a master of his instrument, playing it as if it were a part of him. “The violinist was exquisite,” Reeves continued. “Her fingers danced along her instrument as easy as breath. “And you can tell Dr. Holder hasn’t slacked any over the years because she does such a wonderful job,” he said.