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UNCG Music Faculty Present Works of the Russian Masters

GREENSBORO – The School of Music at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will present “From Russia with Love,” part of its popular Artist Faculty Chamber Series, Thursday, Oct. 30.

Pierpaolo Polzonetti, a new UNCG music history faculty member, will discuss the evening’s selections, which will include works by Sergey Prokofiev, Alexander Tcherepnin and Peter Tchaikovsky.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. Tickets are $8 adults, $5 seniors and students, and $3 UNCG students. For more information, call the box office at (336) 334-4849 between noon and 5 p.m. weekdays.

John Fadial (violin) and Andrew Harley (piano) will open the concert with Prokofiev’s “Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80.” The slow, hauntingly beautiful piece was described by its composer as reminiscent of “a wind in a graveyard.” The program will continue with Tcherepnin’s “Songs and Dances, Op. 84,” featuring Harley and Brooks Whitehouse (violoncello).

Closing the concert will be Peter Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70.” The work is richly scored and employs the full range of instrumental colors. This piece will be performed by an ensemble comprised of Fadial and Wendy Rawls (violin), Scott Rawls and Thomas Rosenthal (viola), and Whitehouse and Beth Vanderborgh (violoncello).

 The Artist Faculty Chamber Series is a six-concert series that showcases the talents of UNCG’s School of Music faculty. Through commentary, guest speakers from various UNCG academic departments and throughout the community put the music in context and promote its thematic ideas. “From Russia with Love” is the last series concert for the fall semester. The series will continue Jan. 29 with “Time” and March 18 with “Czech-Please.”

For information about the School of Music, visit http://www.uncg.edu/mus.
 

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