Locally-produced music, tango, and Bach for flute with guitar are all on the docket of a free faculty recital by flutist Wendy Herbener Mehne on Sunday afternoon, September 26, at 4:00 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall. Pianist Diane Birr and guitarist Pablo Cohen will collaborate.
The recital will feature several pieces of special interest. Ithaca's world-renowned composer Karel Husa's sonata for flute began life as a sonata for violin in 1945. The new version for flute was premiered at the 2001 Ithaca Flute Institute by Leon Buyse and Diane Birr. Husa will be in attendance for this recital.
A Mozart piece originally for two clarinets and bassoon will be performed in an arrangement for flute and guitar. Pablo Cohen will also play the continuo part of a solo sonata by J.S. Bach.
Music of Lowell Liebermann rounds out the program.
Wendy Herbener Mehne performs with the Ithaca Wind Quintet and was a 1995-96 Dana Teaching Fellow. She is also a member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and a founding member of the new music group, Ensemble X. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Constitution Hall, the national ACDA and SEAMUS conferences, the International Guitar Festival in Fort de France, Martinique, and in broadcasts by affiliates of National Public Radio and Television. Mehne is a contributing author for the magazines Flute Talk and the Instrumentalist and has recorded for Mark Records and Open Loop.
Contributed by Erik Kibelsbeck
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