Flutist Wendy Herbener Mehne will present a free flute recital on Sunday, November 11, at 4:00 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College. Mehne, a professor of music performance in the School of Music, will be joined by pianist Diane Birr and clarinetist Michael Galván in a program of Hungarian and gypsy music.
“We’ll be performing both music that is authentically Hungarian or gypsy music -- by Bela Bartok, who actually went into the field to record people making music -- and music that is a composer’s impression of what Hungarian or gypsy music is like," Mehne said. Music by Albert Franz Doppler and Johannes Brahms represents the latter kind. Rounding out the program is a concerto by Caliendo, which aims to capture a variety of poetic "moods" reflected in the setting of a painting of a gypsy by Corot entitled Young Woman in a Red Bodice Holding a Mandolin.
Wendy Herbener Mehne is professor of flute at Ithaca College, where she performs with the Ithaca Wind Quintet, and was a 1995-96 Dana Teaching Fellow and the 2004 London Sabbatical Scholar. She is a founding member of the new music group, Ensemble X, and a member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. Mehne has been a guest artist and given master classes throughout the United States. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Constitution Hall, national ACDA and SEAMUS conferences, the International Guitar Festival in Fort de France, Martinique, numerous National Flute Association conventions, and in broadcasts by affiliates of National Public Radio and Television.
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