Glenn Korff School of Music Professor of Oboe William McMullen will present a faculty recital on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.
William McMullen, professor of music (oboe) will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 in Kimball Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
The recital will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
McMullen will be joined by Nathan Koch, assistant professor of bassoon, and Catherine Herbener, pianist.
The program includes “Sonata, op. 166” for oboe and piano by Camille Saint- Saëns; “Fantaisie Concertante” for oboe, bassoon and piano by Charles Louis Triébert (op. 15) and Louis Marie Eugène Jancourt (op. 26) from Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri;” “Fantaisie Caprice” for oboe and piano by Henri Dallier; and “Trio” for oboe, bassoon and piano by Francis Poulenc.
McMullen said the program includes something old and something new.
“The evening recital will include two very well-known favorites of oboe repertoire — Saint-Saëns’ Sonata for oboe and piano and Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano—as well as two lesser-known works for the same instrumentation—Dallier’s Fantaisie Caprice for oboe and piano and Triébert/Jancourt’s Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano,” McMullen said. “All these French composers were active in Paris, of course, either in the middle of the 19th century or in the first half of the 20th century. Triébert, an oboist, and Jancourt, a bassoonist, collaborated in the composition of their Trio and they both played very active roles in the development of new designs of mechanisms for their respective instruments. Both Saint-Saëns and Dallier were highly respected organists at the top job in Paris (at L’église de la Madeleine). And Poulenc, was a bit of a rebel, you might say.”
McMullen is principal oboe with Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra and an oboist in the Moran Woodwind Quintet, the resident faculty quintet in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. He has appeared as a soloist with Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra and the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra in performances of the Strauss, Mozart and Vaughan-Williams concertos.
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