West Virginia University music faculty member Andrew Kohn will present a double bass recital, Monday, Sept. 19, at the Creative Arts Center.

He will be assisted by Robert Frankenberry, piano, David Anderson, trumpet, and music faculty member Cynthia Babin Anderson, percussion.

The concert begins at 8:15 in Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A) and is free and open to the public.

The program includes “Four Bass Studies” (1983) by Larry Polansky, exploring the harmonics of the bass; and “Nightmusic” (1975) by D. Martin Jenni (1937-2006), written as a musical portrait of Eldon Obrecht, his faculty colleague at the University of Iowa, with whom Dr. Kohn studied.

Four pieces on the program are compositions by women for the bass: “The Tides of Time” (1969) by Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), the most adventurous English composer of her generation; “Episode 8” (1984) by Betsy Jolas of the Paris Conservatory; “Improvisation et Final” (1956) by Brigitte Gauthier (1928-2001) who won the coveted Prix de Rome in 1958; and “Stroll” (2011) by Tamar Diesendruck who is chair of the Master of Fine Arts program in Music Composition at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and who composed this work for Kohn.

Variations on “The Turkish Lady” (1992) is by Allan Blank, professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. “The Turkish Lady” is one of the names given in Virginia to an old English ballad.

Two of Kohn’s compositions will also be on the program: “Music for Trumpet and Salsa” (2009) and “Two Bits” (2003), which Kohn composed for his colleague Paul Robinson at Ohio State University.

For more information, contact the College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4359.

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