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Enjoy the Arts at UTC
The UTC Fine Arts
Center hosts Patten
Performances, which brings the
best in traveling arts entertainment to Chattanooga each year. Visit
our Fine Arts calendar for a complete listing of arts offerings on
campus.
This week at UTC, consume feasts for the ears and eyes: a tuba
recital in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall and drawings and
photographs in the galleries of the UTC Fine Arts Center.
In its first ever faculty recital for tuba on Monday, October 27 at
7 p.m., the UTC Music Department features Kenyon Wilson. This free
event
will be held in the UTC Fine Arts Center, on the corner of Vine and Palmetto
Streets. Accompanying Wilson will be Dr. Alan Nichols of Chattanooga
State and the UTC Tuba–Euphonium Ensemble under the direction of
Dr. William R. Lee, professor of music at UTC.
"We are excited to have another season of low brass recitals and
concerts at UTC, and particularly happy to participate with Dr. Wilson
in recital," said
Lee, a published composer, euphonium teacher and author of numerous publications
in the field of music and music education. "Dr. Wilson’s grasp
of the technical requirements of the instrument is fantastic and his
knowledge of the literature for the instrument is truly inspiring."
Wilson currently performs as principal tubist with the Augusta Symphony
Orchestra and with the Charleston-based Atlantic Southeast Ballet Orchestra.
Wilson is a native of Tennessee, and he holds degrees from Tennessee
Technological University, Baylor University, and the University of Georgia.
In addition to performing throughout the United States, Wilson has performed
solo recitals in Canada, Japan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. He
has also soloed with the Waco Symphony Orchestra, the Augusta Symphony
Orchestra, the University of Memphis Concert Band, and the Asahikawa
Symphonic Band in Japan. Wilson serves as adjunct faculty at UTC.
Wilson will perform a great variety of American pieces for the tuba,
from a jazz piece called "Chocolates" by James Grant to Neal
Corwell’s "New England Reveries" for tuba and taped synthesizer.
Jesse Ayers’ tuba piece, "The Dancing King," is a direct
reference to the dancing of King David of ancient Israel mentioned in
II Samuel 6:14. "Three Ludes for Tuba" was composed by Robert
Jager, a well-known Tennessee composer who was a professor at Tennessee
Tech in Cookeville. It has three movements, "Prelude," "Interlude," and "Postlude." Wilson
has composed "Tubaku," a duet influenced by Azerbaijani scales
and rhythms. Several pieces by Azerbaijani composers include "Motherland" by
the early twentieth-century composer Asaf Zeynally, Gara Garyev’s "Don
Kichote" and Dance from "Path of Thunder."
David Butler will be featured in a duet with Wilson. Butler teachers
at the Chattanooga School of the Arts and Sciences where he is the band
director. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University and has
done graduate work at UTC.
For more information, please call 423/425-4601 or email William-Lee@utc.edu
Later in the week, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Cress Gallery of Art will host a public reception for the opening of
two exhibitions
Thursday October 23 from 5 - 7 p.m. Mary Carrithers: New Drawings in
the main gallery consists of 26 large figurative color pastel and charcoal
works completed in 2003 by Chattanooga based artist Mary Carrithers.
Gallery II features Les Danseurs: Photographs by Andy Zaller.
Based in Oklahoma, Zaller has selected 20 works from a larger portfolio
of both
traditional and manipulated photographs of members of the Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Ballet Company. Both exhibitions will run until Dec 01, 2003.
The Cress Gallery hours are 9:30 am - 5 pm M-F and it is also open to
the public during all Patten Series Performances in the UTC Fine Arts
Center, corner of Vine and Palmetto. For more information call (423)
425-4600.
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