Tehachapi News

Classical and jazz guitar virtuoso Marc Irving Weber

By: Submitted by Anthony McDemas, Taste of Tehachapi

Start: Nov 21 2009 - 08:00
Time: 7:00pm
Price:
Contact: 822-2326
Location: Tehachapi, Ca, 93561

Dr. Weber has a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, a Master of Music from Yale School of Music, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has composed for orchestra, band, mixed ensembles, choirs, and a variety of solo instruments over the years.

His live music is influenced by everything from classical, jazz, folk, rock, and blues to music from the Near and Far East. In addition to his 'fixed' compositions he loves to improvise, and has found some unique solutions to the problem of performing alone. "I am trying to bring more and more counterpoint into my improvising - it is easy enough to write that sort of thing out, but more challenging to do ad lib."

Marc often employs open tunings, creating a fluid and dynamic bass drone underneath his solo lines. He also uses a digital delay system, creating canons (one line of music 'copying' another line) or setting up a call-and-response effect. "As a musician, I love bouncing ideas off of others and in a solo setting I can use some simple technology to transform aspects of myself into the 'other' - I send out a 'call' and then try to react to it; just the right amount of echo allows things to return a bit, and sometimes the effect can be pretty amazing."

Check out Marc’s You Tube video the website.

Don’t miss this free show at Mama HillyBean’s Organic Café on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. Mama HillyBean’s is located at 426 E. Tehachapi Blvd. For more information call 822-2326.

—Submitted by Anthony McDemas, Taste of Tehachapi