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2013 Fall Faculty Tuesdays recitals are held at 7:30 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall in the Imig Music Building. All performances are free and open to the public. September 17: The program will feature ethnomusicologist/composer Dr. Brenda M. Romero and guests ethnomusicologist/performer Jay Keister and Mami Itasaka Keister, a Japanese dance specialist formally known as Miko Bando. Romero will begin with a brief lecture recital on early New Mexican folk songs on voice and guitar that will be followed by two short Japanese pieces featuring Keister and Miko Bando. The concert will end with a sampling of Dr. Romero’s formal compositions. September 24: A FRENCH SOIRÉE: Hsing-ay Hsu, piano, will be joined by faculty colleagues Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano, Andrew Cooperstock, piano, and Charles Wetherbee, violin with piano solos by Ravel including Scarbo and Debussy duets including songs from Recueil Vasnier, Violin Sonata, and Fêtes (4 hands). October 1: Margaret McDonald, collaborative piano, will be joined by new voice faculty Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano, Jennifer-Bird Arvidsson, soprano, visiting faculty artist Leone Buyse, flute, Charles Wetherbee, violin, and Judith Glyde, cello for an evening of works by female composers Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Clara Schumann, and Mel Bonis followed by Mendelssohn’s popular Piano Trio in D Minor. October 8: ECLECTIC INFLUENCES: Daphne Leong (piano), with John Gunther, saxophone, Patrick Sutton, guitar, Douglas Walter, marimba, Carl Dixon, marimba, and Michael Tetreault, percussion. A cutting-edge mix of avant-garde new music, jazz, and soul influences, this program features the world premiere of Clear Sounds among Hills and Waters for solo piano by Robert Morris, McDermott’s Smoke of Burning Cloves for marimba, and Andriessen’s Hout and Shende’s Throw Down or Shut Up! October 15: Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano and Nicholas Carthy, piano. Welcome Abigail Nims to our voice facilty and to Boulder. She will be joined on the piano by Nicholas Carthy as they perform works by Schumann, Poulenc, Ives, Ginastera, and Harbison. October 22: FIDDLE FIESTA: Lina Bahn is the leader of the party of wonderful solo and duo violin music with guest colleagues Charles Wetherbee, Károly Schranz, and Edward Dusinberre. October 29: AMERICAN SONGS: Patrick Mason, baritone will present the premiere of Robert Spillman’s song cycle The Branch Will Not Break: Nine Poems of James Wright with the composer at the piano. Included in the program will be songs by Stephen Foster and Leonard Bernstein. November 5: HORNS APLENTY: Join CU Associate Professor of Horn Michael Thornton and his colleagues from the Colorado Symphony Horn Section for an evening of music for horns. Works will include the Schumann Konzertstücke for Four Horns, Mitushin Horn Quartet, and a featured performance of the William Buck Romanza for Four Horns, recently discovered in the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado. November 19: EN TIEMPO DE TANGO: Enjoy an evening of tangos and tango-inspired pieces with Alejandro Cremaschi and Trio Cordilleras, Beth Kipper, violin, Thomas Heinrich, cello. The program features a few classic tangos, and pieces by Piazzolla, Luis Jorge Gonzalez, Emilio Colon, Juan Maria Solare, Miguel del Aguila, Eduardo Alonso-Crespo and others. December 3: EVENING LIGHT: Charles Wetherbee, violin, and David Korevaar will present a violin and piano duo recital featuring two rarely performed masterpieces, the Saint-Saëns D Minor Violin Sonata and the Dohnanyi Violin Sonata. Also included on the program is the Schubert Sonata in G Minor and 10 preludes by Shostakovich.