Tuesday Apr 22, 2014
RECITAL HALL - COULTER BUILDING
Saxophonist Ian Jeffress and pianist Lillian Pearson will present a recital at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30 pm. The recital kicks off a year of celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), the Belgian instrument maker and inventor of the saxophone. The program features a combination of new and historic works for saxophone, focusing on the instrument's chameleonic character. Jerome Savari's Fantasy on Themes from Freischutz borrows music from Carl Maria von Weber's groundbreaking Romantic opera in one of the earliest examples of solo music for the saxophone, while Stephen Lias's Five Characters from David Copperfield offers a modern, comical view of some of the most famous literary characters of the Victorian period. Other works featured on the program include Fernande Decruck's lush, impressionistic Sonata in C#, Giacinto Scelsi's Tre Pezzi, and Barry Cockcroft's Ku Ku. The concert begins at 7:30pm in the Recital Hall of the Coulter Building. For more information please call the School of Music at 227-7242. Admission is free.