The recital features many members of the Brevard College Music faculty and will bring a delightful selection of music to suit all tastes.

The performance is free and open to the public.

The program will open with Three Irish Folksong Settings, by John Corigliano, featuring David Gresham, tenor, and Rita Hayes, flute. Renowned for writing the score to the academy award winning film �The Red Violin,� Corigliano composed these folksong settings after first exploring the whimsical side of Irish music in his work with James Galway in �The Pied Piper Fantasy.� Says Corigliano regarding his experience: �That was a fairy-tale work, bubbling with the humorous, sometimes sardonic personality of Mr. Galway himself. Six years later, I tried to explore the more poetic side of Irish flute music in these settings of folk or folk-like text.� One of the most thrilling aspects of this work is that the voice and flute parts are often at odds with each other until the text demands that they come together again.

Fred Lemmons and Katherine Palmer appear next performing The �Premi�re Rhapsody�

for clarinet and piano, composed by Claude Debussy. Named in 1909 to the Board of Directors of the Paris Conservatoire, Debussy�s first duty was to supply two works for the next year�s clarinet examinations. He first performed the Rhapsody as part of the examinations on July 14, 1910. It wasn�t until 1911 that Debussy published his own orchestration of the accompaniment.

Following the �Premiere Rhapsody� Larry Black joins Katherine Palmer in �Legend,� a solo work for trumpet and piano, by Romanian composer George Enescu and premiered by Merri Franquin, professor of cornet at the Paris Conservatory. The work reflects the impressionistic style of Enescu�s teachers, Jules Massenet and Gabriel Faure and is an evolution of the trumpet from a more archaic to a fully chromatic and soloistic instrument.

Next, Kathryn Gresham and Janice Murray perform the lovely �Suleika Songs,� by Franz Schubert. These, like many of Schubert�s songs, are set to poems from Goethe - in this case, the poet�s �West-Ostlicher Divan.� These songs pay homage to the wind as a messenger and a harbinger, and are a symbol for Suleika�s far-away love.

The evening will also feature �Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most,� a jazz standard composed in 1955 by Frances Landesman and Thomas J Wolf Jr. and sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Barbara Streisand and many others. Professor Steve Wilson, who performed this arrangement at the International Trombone Festival, is the featured soloist and will be joined by guest trombonists James Sparrow, Andrew Shelton, David Stern and Joey Lee. Mark Britt conducts the group.

Rounding out the program are guitarist Lou Mowad, performing �Introduction and Variations on the Theme by Mozart,� by well-known guitar composer Fernando Sor; and Lemmons, Palmer and Laura Franklin performing Robert Glenn Palmer�s Night Sounds, for clarinet, marimba and piano.

For more information, please contact the Brevard College Division of Fine Arts at 828.884.8211.

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