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Music :: Misc
CHICKADEES IN THE CONCERT HALL
7:00 PM
United Way Conference Room at the Gateway Community Center
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CHICKADEES IN THE CONCERT HALL

Musician and composer, Dr. Craig Thomas Naylor, will present "Chickadees in the Concert Hall" at the March 9 meeting of Flathead Audubon. The program is about two musical works Naylor composed that are based on the vocalizations of chickadees. The works are called "Chickadee Symphony" and "Chickadee Frenzy."

Audubon meets at 7 p.m. in the United Way Conference Room at the Gateway Community Center on US Highway 2 West in Kalispell. The Conference Room is accessed from the parking lot on the west side of the Center.

Ten years ago, while living in Virginia and teaching at a university, Naylor was listening to the vocalizations of Black-capped and other Chickadees. He decided to incorporate these vocalizations into a work for symphonic wind ensemble. He embarked upon a study of Chickadee vocalizations and consulted with researchers around the country. With the assistance of one early pioneer in the field of digital transcription and analyses of bird vocalization, he learned to understand what Chickadees are saying. This enabled him to write the work called "Chickadee Symphony" where each of the movements and the quality of the music is true to the behavior context of the vocalizations used.

Naylor's presentation will include some of the research he conducted to write the symphony, some excerpts from the music, and then the symphony itself.

In Naylor's second composition, he put three chickadee vocalizations into a computer, broke them into pieces, manipulated the digital files to make different sounds, created an "orchestra" of chickadee-based sounds, and then wrote an electronic piece for these sounds called "Chickadee Frenzy".

Naylor and his wife Candi now live in a house they built in Kalispell on land that has been in her family for four generations. Naylor teaches band and choir at Trinity Lutheran School, is choir director at Northridge Lutheran Church and also teaches at Flathead Valley Community College.
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Age Group: All Ages
Venue: United Way Conference Room at the Gateway Community Center
Address: US Highway 2 West Kailspell, MT 59901
Phone: N/A

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