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FSU’s Department of Music Presents Wind Studios RecitalFrostburg State University’s Department of Music will present its Wind Studios Recital on Monday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public. The concert will also be livestreamed; click the “Join Stream” button on this page a few minutes before the recital is scheduled to begin, or any time during the recital, to view the live performanceThe concert will feature music majors from the Clarinet Studio of Dr. Mark Gallagher, the Saxophone Studio of Dr. Brent Weber and the Trumpet Studio of Dr. Donald Albrecht. Dr. Joseph Yungen will be the collaborative pianist, with guest artists Peter Lewis on bass, Chassady Redhead on violin and Evie Shanholtz on viola.The program will include “Andante – Allegro” and “Allegretto” from “Fourth Trio for Clarinets” by Jacques Bouffil; “Two Jazz Duets” by John LaPorta; “Tuxedo” by Nick Holmes; the first movement of “Sonata for Trumpet and Piano” by Kent Kennan; “Moon River” by Henry Mancini, arranged by Max Partlow; the three movements, “Lebhaft,” “Mässig Langsam” and “Lebhaft,” of “Konzertstück für Zwei Altsaxophone” by Paul Hindemith; and “Salamander” by Wayne Siegel.Bouffil was a prominent 19th-century French clarinetist and composer. His compositions for clarinet duet and trio are some of the most worthwhile written for the medium. They are full-scale works of considerable substance and were doubtless intended for performance by professionals.LaPorta was a jazz clarinetist and composer. At one point it looked as if he would be one of the leading clarinetists in modern jazz, but he chose the educator’s chair instead. He was a fixture at Berklee College of Music for many decades and played a pivotal role in the earliest stage of formalized American jazz education, shaping the unique Berklee curriculum. He wrote 15 books on music education and more than two hundred compositions.Holmes is a musician, saxophonist, educator and musical mentor. “Tuxedo” is a musical score for two alto saxophones. It contains musical notation across three staves for each saxophone, including notes, rhythms, dynamics and other performance instructions. The score consists of multiple pages of music for the two instruments to play together.Kennan was an American composer, author, educator and professor. His compositions include works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and solo instrument as well as songs and choral music. His “Sonata for Trumpet and Piano” is part of the standard repertoire for many collegiate trumpet studios.“Moon River” is a song composed by Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Mercer wrote three sets of lyrics, his favorite version inspired by the full moon over a river near his childhood home in Savannah, Ga.Hindemith was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) style of music in the 1920s. Hindemith composed “Concert Piece for Two Alto Saxophones” in 1933. Sigurd Raschèr, one of the best-known classical saxophonists of the 20th century, commissioned the work from Hindemith.“Salamander” (2019) is a sequel to “Jackdaw,” a piece that Siegel wrote 24 years earlier. The piece starts with a slow, dreamy section that is interrupted by a quick and lively section and that finally returns to a palindrome version of the first slow section.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.