The UTC Music Department will present a Faculty Chamber Recital, featuring Music Department faculty members. The concert will take place in the UTC Fine Arts Center, Roland Hayes Concert Hall, 752 Vine St., Chattanooga, on Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. It is presented free of charge and is open to the general public. Tonight’s program will feature several of the department members demonstrating their unique abilities in chamber music ensembles.
The public will be treated to a romance for flute, sax and piano, sonatas for horn and trumpet with piano, a set of French art songs accompanied by flute, cello, and piano, a brass ensemble piece written by one of the performers, and a sonata for two pianos with bass and percussion.
Among the highlights of the evening is Maurice Ravel’s Chansons madécases. Written in 1925, it is based on melodies from Madagascar. An extremely challenging piece, it is rarely performed. Ravel was known to have always been attracted to exotic texts, with this one being amongst his most adventurous.
Composed in 2007 for William Mann, Trifecta by Kenyon Wilson, UTC Tuba/Euphonium professor, is a lively trombone feature piece for brass quintet. Trifecta is written in a rondo form and intersperses sections of slow lyricism with capricious energetic sections.
Sonata for Two Pianists was born when the composer Claude Bolling met the pianist Emanuel Ax and wrote a sonata for him. Conceived as one continual work, as opposed to a many movement work, it incorporates elements of both the classical and jazz cultures. This unique juxtaposition has become increasingly popular in both worlds and Bolling’s innovative solution to crossover compositions provide some musical meetings, which did not exist in any repertoire.
For information regarding this or any other UTC Music Dept. performance, see the Music Department website at http://utc.edu/music, or call the music office at 423 425-4645.