SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 ISSUE
Hayes School of Music This Week
The exotic sounds of the Steely Pan Steel Band will ring throughout Farthing Auditorium this Friday, September 25. The band’s concert is part of ASU’s Family Day Weekend. Other concerts include performances by ASU faculty and the Appalachian Philharmonia.
Unless otherwise indicated, concerts take place in the Broyhill Music Center on the ASU campus. For more information about any of these performances, call 828-262-3020.
James Allen Anderson is the director of Appalachian Philharmonia, performing this Thursday, September 24.
Appalachian Philharmonia Thursday
The Appalachian Philharmonia will perform works by Finzi and Shubert this Thursday, September 24, at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free.
Formerly known as the Appalachian Chamber Orchestra, the philharmonia is directed by James Allen Anderson, conductor.
The program is comprised of Gerald Finzi’s “Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31” featuring clarinetist Douglas Miller. Miller joined the Hayes School of Music faculty in 1980.
The clarinet was Finzi’s favorite instrument. Composed in 1949, his clarinet concerto was first performed at the Hereford Three Choirs Festival with Frederick Thurston as soloist.
The philharmonia also will perform Franz Schubert’s “Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485.” The composition was one of more than 175 works the composer penned at age 19.
The popular Steely Pan Steel Band will appear in concert at Farthing Auditorium this Friday, September 25, at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $7.
Steely Pan Steel Band Friday
The Steely Pan Steel Band performs this Friday, September 25, at 8:00 p.m. in Farthing Auditorium. General admission is $7. Proceeds will help offset the cost of the band’s study abroad trip to the southern Caribbean in March 2010.
The 20-member band is directed by Dr. Scott Meister, who arranges many of the band’s compositions.
The program features percussion major Diana Loomer playing “Flight of the Bumblebee” on xylophone and trumpeter James Stokes performing a Meister arrangement of “La Virgen de la Macarena.” Stokes is an associate professor of trumpet in the Hayes School of Music.
The band also will perform winning compositions from the annual Panorama Steel Band Competition in Trinidad and Meister’s arrangement of “Amazing Grace,” written for a fan who first saw the steel band on a UNC-TV holiday special filmed at ASU.
Members of the Kosmala family will present a violin recital this Sunday, September 27, at ASU. They are (from left) Konrad, Alina, Doria and Witold. Not pictured but also performing is 5-year-old Henryk. Photo submitted
Kosmala Family Recital Sunday
Witold Kosmala and his four children will present a family recital this Sunday, September 27, at 2:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Kosmala is a professor of mathematics at ASU. Joining the family are guitarist Douglas James and pianist Rodney Reynerson, both members of the Hayes School of Music.
The program includes Bach’s “Allegro,” Pachelbel’s “Canon,” John Williams’ “Theme from Schindler’s List,” Bill Monroe’s “Devil’s Dream,” Fritz Kreisler’s “Praeludiam and Allegro” and the allegro from Vivaldi’s “Concerto for Four Violins in b minor.”
Bassoonist and Hayes School of Music faculty member Jon Beebe performs a recital on Tuesday, September 29.
Bassoonist Jon Beebe September 29
Jon Beebe will present a bassoon recital Tuesday, September 29, at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free.
Pianist Christina Hayes, oboist Alicia Chapman and organist Joby Bell will accompany Beebe.
The musicians will perform Antonio Vivaldi’s “Concerto, F. VIII, No. 20,” Bill Douglas’s “Partita,” Scott R. Meister’s “Fantasmi” and Francis Poulenc’s “Trio.”
Beebe has been a member of the faculty in Appalachian’s Hayes School of Music since 1986. He is a frequent recitalist who often champions little known and new music, and has had nearly a dozen works composed for him, including “Fantasmi.”
A Peek Ahead
Faculty Recital Series To Benefit Hospitality House October 6
The Hayes School of Music at ASU highlights six music concerts each year performed by members of the school’s renowned and talented faculty as part of the Faculty Recital Series.
In the 2009-10 academic year, the Hayes School of Music will accept donations at each of the Faculty Recital Series concerts to benefit a local nonprofit organization.
The second recital in the series on Tuesday, October 6, will feature violinist Dr. Nancy Bargerstock and pianist Dr. Rodney Reynerson in a program including works by Brahms, Kreisler, Janacek and Terzakis. The concert starts at 8:00 p.m. at Rosen Concert Hall.
The nonprofit designated to receive the donations generated from this program is the Hospitality House. The Hospitality House is a private, nonprofit crisis intervention agency that assists adults and families in homeless situations in rebuilding their lives.
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