The Brigham Young University School of Music welcomes you to this event. We are grateful for your attendance and support. So everyone can enjoy this performance, we ask for your attention to several issues:
• Please take a moment to turn off your cellular phone, pager, or any audio alerts. Since tonight’s concert is being recorded, we ask you to be as quiet as possible during the performance.
• Please notice the organization of the program so that your applause will be offered at appropriate intervals. Entire works or groupings of pieces will usually be performed without interruption.
• If you must leave during the performance, please wait for applause to do so.
• Please help us maintain a more formal atmosphere appropriate in performances sponsored by the School of Music. Shouting to performers, whistling, or talking during the performance is inappropriate here.
• Thank you for not bringing babies or children too young to enjoy this concert.
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BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
Clay Battles
Percussion in Recital
Student of Matt Coleman with Ella Packard, percussion
Raiden Sasaki, percussion
Trevor Kroff, percussion
Connor Chase, marimba
Curtis Schnitzer, marimba
Sam Foster, marimba
Sean Caviness, marimba
Required for the Bachelor of Music Degree with an Emphasis in Education
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS School of Music presents 11:30 a.m.
8 November 2025
Recital Hall Music Building
Asventuras
PROGRAM
Alexej Gerassimez b. 1987
Clay Battles, snare drum
Triplets
Clay Battles, xylophone
Connor Chase, marimba
Curtis Schnitzer, marimba
Sam Foster, marimba
Sean Caviness, marimba
Timpani Excerpt Medley
Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, GMW 47
George Hamilton Green 1893–1970
arr. Bob Becker
Variations on Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
1898–1937
Ira Gershwin
1896–1983
arr. Eric Sammut
Clay Battles, marimba
Perspective
Jlin
Derivative b. 1987
arr. Robert Dillon and Third Coast Percussion
Clay Battles, percussion
Ella Packard, percussion
Raiden Sasaki, percussion
Trevor Kroff, percussion
Gustav Mahler
Allegro ordinario 1860–1911
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, op. 36 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Allegro con anima 1840–1893
Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, Frank Martin percussion, and string orchestra 1890–1974
Allegro vivace
Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Clay Battles, timpani
Trio Per Uno
Samuel Barber 1910–1981
Over the Rainbow, from The Wizard of Oz
Harold Arlen
1905–1986
Yip Harburg
1896–1981
arr. Max Seide Leth
Clay Battles, vibraphone
Crossed Wires
Nebojša Jovan Živković
1st Movement b. 1962
Clay Battles, percussion
Ella Packard, percussion
Trevor Kroff, percussion
Ivan Trevino
Karma Loop b. 1983
Clay Battles, percussion and live looping
