UNL’s Bailey to perform standards and rarely heard flute repertoire

John Bailey
John Bailey

UNL’s Bailey to perform standards and rarely heard flute repertoire

calendar icon22 Jan 2015    

LINCOLN, Neb.— Glenn Korff School of Music Larson Professor of Flute, John Bailey, assisted by Hixson-Lied Professor of Piano, Mark Clinton, will give a recital of standards and rarely heard flute repertoire on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus. The performance is free and open to the public.

On the program is the Sonatine for flute and piano by pianist and composer Walter Gieseking, known primarily for his outstanding recordings of the piano music of Debussy and Ravel. Firmly in the Romantic tradition, the three-movement Sonatine is a lyrical piece with a rich harmonic texture.

In honor of UNL acquiring the newly published complete works of Theobald Böhm, flutist and inventor of the modern flute, the two will perform his Variations on a German Air, Op. 22, on the well-known song Du, du, liegst mir im Herzen. Also on the program is the rarely heard Scotch Pastoral by British composer Cyril Scott, and the single-movement Sinfonische Kanzone by Sigfrid Karg-Elert, professor of composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. Voice for solo flute, by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, rounds out the program.