There are those days when everything seems to be happening. This Sunday, October 21, appears to be one of those days for the UT School of Music. All of the events mentioned are free.
At 1:00 PM comes a faculty/guest artist recital featuring Katie Johnson-Webb, assistant professor of horn at UT, performing with pianist Kirstin Ihde, assistant professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Their program features works for horn and piano from contemporary Scandinavian composers: Øystein Baadsvik, Andrea Clearfield, Johan Kvandal, Trygve Madsen, and Wolfgang Plagge. The recital is in the Powell Recital Hall of the Haslam Music Center.
At 4:00 PM, the UT Symphony Orchestra takes over the Cox Auditorium for its October concert that celebrates the anniversaries of Rossini, Debussy, and Leonard Bernstein.
Of course, we’ve been hearing a lot about Bernstein’s 100th birth anniversary this year as music organizations all over the globe take advantage of the occasion to perform music they’d probably love to be performing all the time. Locally, the Knoxville Symphony and the Clarence Brown Theatre did a much heralded run of Bernstein’s operetta, Candide.
Bernstein will be celebrated on the concert with Three Dance Episodes from On the Town and Selections from West Side Story.
2018 represents the 100th and 150th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy and Giaocchino Rossini, respectively—admittedly a celebratory occasion only by the virtue of history. Opening the concert is inarguably one of the most exciting and memorable overtures ever written: Rossini’s Overture to William Tell. After the cloud of dust clears, the orchestra will perform Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Debussy. Natalie Gregg will be the flutist. Director of Orchestras James Fellenbaum conducts.
At 8:00 PM, UT faculty pianist Kevin Class offers a recital in the Powell Recital Hall:
Franz Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, D. 537
Robert Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
Franz Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage: Deuxième Année – Italie
