Saxophone Quartet and Quintet to Present Recital
The Saxophone Quartet and Quintet will present a recital on Sunday, November 9.
10/09/2014 5:15 PM
The Saxophone Quartet and Quintet will present a recital on Sunday, November 9, at 3 p.m. in the Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue.
Both ensembles include music majors and minors under the direction of Keith Zimmerman, °®¶¹´«Ã½ÊÓƵ’s saxophone instructor.
The quintet program will include J.S. Bach’s Air from Cantata 208 Sheep May Safely Graze; Alexander Borodin’s Nocturne; the Finale from Beethoven’s op. 4 Quintet; Anton Rubenstein’s Romance and a medley of swing tunes by Macomb composer/arranger Robert Sibbing.
The quartet will perform two early transcriptions for saxophone quartet – Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba and Isaac Albeniz’s Sevilla. Rounding out the program are two original saxophone quintets by French composers – Eugene Bozza’s Andante et Scherzo and Pierre-Max Dubois’ Quatour, a suite of four movements.
The quartet is composed of senior Curtis Nelson, Annawan; junior Damairus Reddick and sophomore Matt Zahner, Peoria; and Keith Zimmerman. Joining them to transform the ensemble into a quintet is Jacob Klein, freshman from Metamora.
The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, call 309.677.3596.