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Eleanor Wong \u201912 plays harp for the group “Ensemble Kalamazoo.” Photo by Aaron Geller \u201908<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A group known as “Ensemble Kalamazoo” recently proved that music can be equal parts silence and sound. The group performed a collection of atonal pieces during a late June concert. Its harpist is Kalamazoo College alumna Eleanor Wong \u201912<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Eleanor came to the harp by way of her reluctance for the piano. An early hint: during childhood piano lessons she much preferred to strum the strings inside the instrument rather than finger the keys outside. Not a problem when a musical tradition is as strong as it is in the Wong family. Eleanor\u2019s uncle, Bradley Wong, who attended the June concert, was recently named Western Michigan University\u2019s director of music.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The concert\u2019s compositions sounded like a musical equivalent of the post-war art movement of abstract expressionism. Peter Ablinger\u2019s <\/span>Weiss\/Weisslich<\/em> 3\u201d (White\/Off-White), for example, sounded like a blank white canvas painted white and splashed with a few drops of various colors that seldom coincided.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was difficult to play at first,\u201d said Eleanor. And she remarked on the long rehearsal sessions the unorthodox song structures required, \u201cBut the emphasis on texture rather than traditional melody and harmony trains your ear in a new way,\u201d she added.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The unorthodox selections featured some fascinating instruments–such as WMU graduate Zachary Boyt\u2019s comb-and-Macbook combination (part of fellow WMU graduate Valeria Jonard\u2019s composition The Broken Harp<\/em>) that produced a sound that seemed to blend a wind chime and a leaky faucet. The composition\u2019s simplicity and complexity turned on the Boyt\u2019s strumming of the comb, which was amplified by the computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Watching the performance refueled my own artistic opinions,\u201d said Adam Schumaker<\/strong>, an instructor of musical composition at Kalamazoo College.\u00a0 He stressed the importance of experiencing live performances. “Even though I approach music differently, avant-garde performances reinforce what I want to do with music.”<\/p>\n

If he, or anyone else, wishes to enjoy Eleanor\u2019s work with “Ensemble Kalamazoo,” then he will have to attend the group\u2019s summer concerts. Eleanor is off to the University of Oregon in August to study arts administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group known as “Ensemble Kalamazoo” recently proved that music can be equal parts silence and sound. The group performed a collection of atonal pieces during a late June concert. Its harpist is Kalamazoo College alumna Eleanor Wong \u201912. Eleanor came to the harp by way of her reluctance for the piano. An early hint: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":4592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[31,42,61],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-arts","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"\r\nEnsemble Kalamazoo Includes K Harpist - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A group known as "Ensemble Kalamazoo" recently proved that music can be equal parts silence and sound. 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The group performed a collection of atonal pieces during a late June concert. Its harpist is Kalamazoo College alumna <strong>Eleanor Wong \u201912<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">Eleanor came to the harp by way of her reluctance for the piano. An early hint: during childhood piano lessons she much preferred to strum the strings inside the instrument rather than finger the keys outside. Not a problem when a musical tradition is as strong as it is in the Wong family. Eleanor\u2019s uncle, Bradley Wong, who attended the June concert, was recently named Western Michigan University\u2019s director of music.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">The concert\u2019s compositions sounded like a musical equivalent of the post-war art movement of abstract expressionism. Peter Ablinger\u2019s <\/span><em>Weiss\/Weisslich<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"> 3\u201d (White\/Off-White), for example, sounded like a blank white canvas painted white and splashed with a few drops of various colors that seldom coincided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">“It was difficult to play at first,\u201d said Eleanor. And she remarked on the long rehearsal sessions the unorthodox song structures required, \u201cBut the emphasis on texture rather than traditional melody and harmony trains your ear in a new way,\u201d she added.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">The unorthodox selections featured some fascinating instruments–such as WMU graduate Zachary Boyt\u2019s comb-and-Macbook combination (part of fellow WMU graduate Valeria Jonard\u2019s composition <em>The Broken Harp<\/em>) that produced a sound that seemed to blend a wind chime and a leaky faucet. The composition\u2019s simplicity and complexity turned on the Boyt\u2019s strumming of the comb, which was amplified by the computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>“Watching the performance refueled my own artistic opinions,\u201d said <strong>Adam Schumaker<\/strong>, an instructor of musical composition at Kalamazoo College.\u00a0 He stressed the importance of experiencing live performances. “Even though I approach music differently, avant-garde performances reinforce what I want to do with music.”<\/p>\n<p>If he, or anyone else, wishes to enjoy Eleanor\u2019s work with “Ensemble Kalamazoo,” then he will have to attend the group\u2019s summer concerts. Eleanor is off to the University of Oregon in August to study arts administration.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9447,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/9447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}