Prize-winning
African American musicians appear in Gateways Music Festival
at Performing Arts Center
Boston
Symphony Orchestra cellist Owen Young and Naumburg
prize-winning pianist Awadagin Pratt are two of the
four handpicked musicians from the Gateways Music Festival
who will perform the works of classical music's most famous
composers in Bates Recital Hall on Sunday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.
Renowned
concert pianist Armenta Adams Hummings founded the nation's
largest African American music festival, the Gateways Music
Festival, in 1993 in Winston-Salem, N.C. The festival's
mission is to highlight the contributions and visibility of
African American classical instrumentalists. The musicians
appearing in the Austin performance are violinist Derek
Reeves, cellist Owen Young, violist Amadi
Hummings and pianist Awadagin Pratt.
The
evening's program includes:
Passacaglia
in g minor for violin and viola on a theme by Handel
Johann Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Derek Reeves, violin
Amadi Hummings, viola
"Duet
with Two Obbligato Eyeglasses" in E-flat Major, WoO
32
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Amadi Hummings, viola
Owen Young, cello
Sonata
for Piano and Cello in A Major Op. 69
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
I-Allegro ma non tanto
II-Scherzo
III-Adagio Cantabile-Allegro Vivace
Owen Young, cello
Awadagin Pratt, piano
Intermission
Trio in G
Major, Op. 9. No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
I-Adagio-Allegro con brio
II-Adagio, ma non tanto, e cantabile
III-Scherzo
IV-Presto
Derek Reeves, violin
Amadi Hummings, viola
Owen Young, cello
The
festival's founder, Armenta
Adams Hummings,
will give a pre-performance lecture on Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. in
the School of Music Recital Studio Room 2.608. As part of
the Performing Arts Center's Artsreach program,
participating musicians will also perform solo at various
churches throughout the community. |
