Guitars of Western: Friday, May 16 @ 7:30pm (PAC Concert Hall)

[elischillehudson]

Dear All, 

I’m writing to make you aware of our upcoming 2025 Guitars of Western concert—THIS Friday, May 16 at 7:30pm in the concert hall of the WWU Performing Arts Center! Admission is free. 

The students of the WWU Guitar Area are set to present a fantastic program of solo works spanning three centuries, especially highlighting gems of the guitar’s rich history in the Americas. 

Continuing that theme (and a guitar area tradition), the second half of Friday’s program premieres this year’s crop of brand new arrangements for our Guitar Ensemble. The students and I have all contributed an arrangement to make up a Ragtime Suite—our group’s take on the solo piano works of the great American composer Scott Joplin. The result is a unique, extremely fun (and quite challenging!) recasting of this music in the colors of mandolin, steel-string, electric, bass, and classical guitars. It’s also a time capsule of this present moment in the WWU guitar studio, and a testament to the students’ imagination, hard work, and commitment to bringing each other’s ideas to life. 

The full program is attached.

We hope you can join us!

Best wishes,

Eli Schille-Hudson

[Mark-Hilliard Wilson]

This looks fantastic Eli! I love what you are doing up there! I’d like to make this but will down here till 6 teaching 

Have a great time 

Mark 

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[Tim Surratt]

Excellent - I have not seen anything from CFPA, whose emails I get - will they advertise the program?

Tim

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[Todd Z]

Thank you I am hoping to attend

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[Jacob Seyer]

Looks like a great program Eli, we have family in town and may not be able to make it, but i'll keep it on my calendar! 

Thanks very much, 

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[Todd Z]

My son and I both enjoyed last night's program very much. Thank you Eli and thanks to all the performers.

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[Eli Schille-Hudson]

Many thanks for the kind words and well-wishes, all! Much appreciated 😊

Cheers!

Eli

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[David Feingold]

I’d add to that that it’s always a joy to experience the innovation in presentation that you and your students bring to these concerts Eli. 

Congratulations to all of the soloists opening the first half of the show. What a wonderful performing experience that the students as performers can and will build on! 

Organizing the second half of the show on arrangements from everyone on stage, and centered around a theme, allowed us to be a part of the process, as the arrangements are realized in this diverse  ensemble setting. I look forward to next year’s concert!

David

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