The Northeastern State University Music Depatment held its annual Halloween recital on Oct. 30 in the Center for Performing Arts at its Tahlequah campus.
On piano, Farron Mayfield opened up with performing “The Force Theme” and “The Imperial March” from Star Warsuna was on before performing music by Franz Liszt.
Then, there was “Moonlight Village” with four performers on saxophones performing. Izzy Vreeland was on soprano sax, Evan Erwin was on alto sax, Logan Henson was on tenor sax, and Miguel Luna was on baritone sax.
Five performers (Emily Buford, Rayna Padilla, Skylar Henson, Hannah Neugin and Catalina Ortega) on flute performed the theme from The Addams Family, “Baby Elephant Walk” by Henry Mancini, “The Funeral March of a Marionette” by Charles Gounod, and the them from The Muppet Show.
Alison Moore performed “The Wizard and I” from Wicked while Mayfield performing on the piano. The piece is by Stephen Schwartz. Justin Kroll also performed “Die Erlkonig” by Franz Schubert as Mayfield performed on piano. And the recital was jazzed up before intermission with Jordan VanHemert, on saxophone, Moriah Nicholson, on piano, Ethan Doty, on Bass, and Zack Hance, on drums, performing a nice Trick or Treat tune.
Trumpeteers Alex Brotherton and Tyson Byrd perfromed music by Hans Ganch and Mayfield ended the night with Danny Elfman’s music from Beetlejuice and the Tales from the Crypt TV. show. He also performed “This is Halloween” from Nightmare Before Christmas, another Elfman piece, as students and faculty sung. They also sun “Double Trouble,” a John Williams piece from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Mayfield also performed “One Winged Angel” by Nobuo Uematsu and excerpts of “Danse Macabre” by Camille Saint-Saens.
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