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Moores Music Notes

Jason Caesar Consolacion

Two pianists will each present a recital for UH students next week.

Guest artist Andrew Parr will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Dudley Recital Hall (Fine Arts Building). Since joining the faculty at Stephen F. Austin University, Parr has performed in a variety of settings, including solo, chamber and concerto.

He is an active member of the Sylvan Chamber Ensemble (a performing piano trio) and he also teams with his wife Linda to perform piano duets.

Parr's program will include Sonata in D Major, D. 85 by Franz Schubert, Toccata in C Major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, Mazurkas, Op. 41 and Scherzo in B-flat Minor, Op. 3, both by Frédérick Chopin. Admission for Parr's program is free.

Also on Tuesday, local performer and teacher Zoya Shuhatovich will present a recital at 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House.

Shuhatovich has taught and performed in the United States since 1993 after touring around the country in such places as the former Soviet Union, Poland and Germany. She continues to perform in various recitals and festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Texas Music Festival.

Her program will feature Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 "Tempest" by Ludwig van Beethoven, Five Mazurkas by Frédérick Chopin, Variations serieuses, Op. 54 by Felix Mendelssohn and Eighteen preludes from Op. 34 by Dimitri Shostakovich.

Admission is $6 ($4 for students and seniors) and tickets are available at the door. Call the Moores School Ticket Office at (713) 743-3313 for more information.

This Week in Music

Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, was first performed, in Milan, Italy, and it was a big success (Feb. 9, 1893); "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller peaked at No. 1 on the pop singles chart and stayed there for 10 weeks (Feb. 10, 1940); Anton Bruckner's Ninth Symphony was premiered in Vienna, six years after the composer's death (Feb. 11, 1903).

Birthdays: late bassist and Count Basie orchestra bandleader Walter Page (today); late Austrian composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg (today); pianist and composer Jerry Goldsmith (Feb. 10); opera soprano Leontyne Price (Feb. 10); late jazz-fusion performer Rockin Dopsie Sr. (Feb. 10); late bandleader "Chick" Webb (Feb. 10); jazz musician Conrad Janis (Feb. 11); bandleader Sergio Mendes (Feb. 11); late Duke Ellington Band member Claude Jones (Feb. 11); late trumpeter Lebert J. Lombardo (Feb. 11).

Deaths: tenor Herschel Evans (today, 1939); bandleader Willie Bryant (today, 1964); baritone Charlie Fowlkes (today, 1980); gospel singer James Cleveland (today, 1991); Hungarian conductor/composer Ernst "Erno" von Dohnanyi (Feb. 11, 1960); sax player and clarinetist Edmond Hall (Feb. 11, 1967); jazz pianist Jaki Byard (Feb. 11, 1999).

Musical Term of the Week

mazurka -- The mazurka is a Polish dance, transformed by Frédérick Chopin in some 50 piano pieces in this form.

Definition taken from

www.hnh.com/mgloss.htm.

Upcoming Events

Eastern Christian Choral Society -- 7 p.m. Friday, Moores Opera House Lobby. Admission is free.

Hispanic Heritage Series -- 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15. Houston Early Music presents ALTRAMAR: Voices from the Alhambra. For tickets, call (713) 432-1744.

Also, to all music majors, don't forget to attend the Tuesday Recital (this is a requirement, remember?). Check the white markerboard by the stairs in the lobby of the Moores School of Music for more information. Tuesday recitals are held at 1 p.m. either in Dudley Recital Hall or the Moores Opera House.

If you would like your recital, master class or even your birthday (MSM students only, please) announced in Moores Music Notes, e-mail announcements to mooresmusicnotes@hotmail.com. (If you are submitting your birthday, please include your major and classification).

All entries must be e-mailed by 3 p.m. Tuesday. They will appear in The Daily Cougar the following Wednesday.