Contact: Kay Fike Jones
Calliope, the performing duo of flutist Elizabeth McNutt and pianist Shannon Wettstein, will perform a collection of 20th century compositions Sunday [Feb. 18] at Mississippi State University.
The public recital begins at 3 p.m. in the Bettersworth Auditorium of Giles Hall.
Starkville resident McNutt and Wettstein, an assistant professor at Minnesota's Bemidji State University, will be joined by Andrew May, a lecturer in MSU's music education department.
In addition to performing pieces written between 1948 and 1998, Calliope will debut "Discipline 5: From Saturn to Alabama: Travels in Outer Space," a piano solo by former MSU faculty member Mark Applebaum.
Other selections include music by composers Sam Hayden of England and Matthew Schlomowitz of Australia, as well as "Sonata" for flute and piano by Sergei Prokofiev, Franco Donatoni's "Fili," "Four Miniatures" by Brian Ferneyhough, and "Le Merle Noir" by Olivier Messiaen.
For more information, telephone (662) 325-3070.