Moran Woodwind Quintet performs wide variety of styles, works

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Moran Woodwind Quintet performs wide variety of styles, works

Moran Woodwind Quintet

The Moran Woodwind Quintet, the faculty quintet in residence at the Glenn Korff School of Music, will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m. April 14 in Kimball Hall.

On the program will be four works in a wide variety of styles. The program will open with a rarely heard work by oboist Henri Brod, a Parisian contemporary of Beethoven and Schubert who was one of the earliest writers for quintet.

UNL tuba professor Craig Fuller will also join the Quintet for a jovial work by British composer Paul Harvey, who depicted six inns and pubs near London, titled “Six for Six in Six Inns.” Late Romantic composer Alexander Zemlinsky’s short and stylish Humoreske will follow, cast in rondo form with unmistakable Austrian qualities.

The final work on the program will be the substantial “Afro-Cuban Concerto” by Valerie Coleman, a flutist with the Imani Winds. This three-movement work will be a concerto in the sense that each member of the group takes turns as featured soloist with other members providing support. Rhythmically interesting for the listener and challenging for the performers, this work will show African as well as possible Caribbean influence.

Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for students and seniors.

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