Clarinetist Bartley, Wisconsin Brass Quintet to perform

Clarinetist Linda Bartley will perform on the UW–Madison campus this week as part of the Faculty Concert Series at the university’s School of Music.

Bartley’s performance is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. in Mills Concert Hall.

Bartley, a professor of music, has planned a program of works from the 19th and 20th centuries utilizing colleagues and friends on percussion, cello, and piano.

She begins with “Corker” by Libby Larsen, a Minnesota-based composer born in 1950. Corker reflects the composer’s childhood memories of radio jazz and popular music, integrating them with her own compositional techniques. It features a non-stop dialogue between clarinet and several percussion instruments, including marimba, vibraphone and others. Assistant Professor Anthony Di Sanza is the percussionist.

Bartley continues with two works written for her – “Vignettes” by James Niblock (b. 1917) and “Propulsions” by William Wallace (b. 1933). Bringing the first half of the program to a close are “Ritual” by Katherine Hoover (b. 1937), which refers musically to folk song and dance of Greece, and “Two Spanish Dances” by Enrique Granados (1867-1916). For these works, Assistant Professor Jessica Johnson is the pianist.

Following intermission, Bartley is joined by Professor Parry Karp, cello, and his mother Frances Karp, piano, for the “Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 40” by Carl Frühling (1868-1937).

The Faculty Concert Series presents the Wisconsin Brass Quintet on Saturday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. in Mills Hall. This concert marks the quintet’s first appearance this season with trombonist James Campbell. A native of Australia, Campbell was appointed associate lecturer at the School of Music at the beginning of the fall term.

The WBQ begins its concert with “Elizabethan Consort Music,” a set of eight works by various English Renaissance composers. It continues with “Brass Quintet No. 3” by Victor Ewald, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, whose career straddled the 1917 revolution. The program’s second half features “Strata for Brass Quintet,” a 1999 work by David Sampson, and “Brass Quintet No. 1,” written in 1961 by Sir Malcolm Arnold.

Tickets for the Faculty Concert Series may be purchased in advance through the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office, at (608) 262-2201. Individual tickets are $9 general, $7 for seniors and non-UW-Madison students. UW–Madison students are admitted free with valid student ID. Tickets may also be purchased at the lobby beginning 45 minutes prior to the concert.

Mills Hall is located in the Mosse Humanities Building, at the corner of Park Street and University Avenue. Call the Concert Line at (608) 263-9485 for weekly updated announcements of programs or visit www.wisc.edu/music. For more information, call the school’s main office, (608) 263-1900.