FEBRUARY 4, 2010 ISSUE
Hayes School of Music This Week
This week, School of Music faculty member Joby Bell performs on the organ, the Appalachian Philharmonia is live in concert at the Ashe Civic Center and at ASU, and music students present voice, violin and bassoon recitals.
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.
Joby Bell Organ Recital Thursday
Dr. Joby Bell will present an organ recital this Thursday, February 4, at 8:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free.
The program includes Bach’s “Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 550,” Georg Böhm’s “Partita on Freu’ dich sehr, O meine Seele,” Daniel E. Gawthrop’s “Three Floral Preludes,” César Franck’s “Prelude, Fugue and Variation” and Felix Mendelssohn’s “Sonata No. 1 in f minor, Op. 65, No. 1.”
Bell is a faculty member in the Hayes School of Music, where he teaches organ and sacred music studies. He is an award-winning organist and has performed with the American Guild of Organists and the Houston Masterworks Chorus and at the Victoria Bach Festival and Washington National Cathedral.
Bell earned a bachelor of music degree in organ and piano from ASU and master of music and doctor of musical arts degrees in organ from Rice University.
Student Voice Recital Friday
Junior music education major Leslie Wicker will perform a voice recital this Friday, February 5, at 6:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Appalachian Philharmonia: Saturday at Ashe Civic Center, Sunday at ASU
The Appalachian Philharmonia performs works by Prokofiev and Rimsky-Korsakov this Saturday, February 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ashe Civic Center in West Jefferson and this Sunday, February 7, at 2:00 p.m. at ASU’s Rosen Concert Hall.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for students for the Ashe Civic Center performance, and admission is free for the ASU performance.
Formerly known as the Appalachian Chamber Orchestra, the philharmonia is based in the Hayes School of Music and is directed by James Allen Anderson, conductor.
The program opens with Serge Prokofiev’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 in Db Major, Op. 10,” featuring pianist Rodney Reynerson.
Prokofiev composed his first piano concerto while a student at St. Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions were often considered rebellious as he shunned the more popular classical style of the modernism movement. Composed during 1911-12, he dedicated the composition for piano and orchestra to “the dreaded Tcherepnin,” who was Prokoviev’s conducting teacher.
The philharmonia also will perform Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade.” The work is based on the Arabian tale about a sultan who after being betrayed by his wife, vows to marry a woman each night and then kill her the following day. Scheherazade, who has just married the sultan, tells stories for 1,001 nights to delay her execution, and in the process, convinces the sultan of her trustworthiness.
Reynerson is a professor of piano at ASU, where he has taught since 1980, and is the coordinator of the keyboard area. He has performed hundreds of solo, chamber and concertos in the United States, including twice with the N.C. Symphony.
Anderson is in demand as a guest conductor and has served as music director of the Butte Symphony Association and director of orchestral activities at the University of Montana.
He competed in the first Vakhtang Jordania Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine, where he was a major prize winner. He serves on the board of directors of the Conductors Guild, holding the office of president elect.
Student Violin and Bassoon Recital February 10
Senior music therapy major Kristin Johnson and junior music education major Sarah Jett will present a violin and bassoon recital on Wednesday, February 10, at 6:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Admission is free.
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