Concert to combine sounds of piano, clarinet and saxophone

Contact: Maridith Geuder

Faculty and guest artists performing a variety of 19th and 20th century instrumental selections for piano, clarinet and saxophone will be featured during an Oct. 7 public recital at Mississippi State.

Sponsored by the university's music education department, the 7:30 p.m. program in the Bettersworth Auditorium of Giles Hall is the second in MSU's 2003-04 Lyceum Faculty Chamber Series.

General admission is $5. MSU students are admitted free; Lyceum season patrons, with ticket.

Sheri A. Falcone will perform on clarinet and saxophone; Wendy Payton, on piano. Guest pianist Sidney Haton Jr. of Charleston (S.C.) Southern University will accompany.

Program selections include "Clarinet Caprice," by James Corigliano; "Symphonie Concertante in E-flat, Op. 23 for two clarinets and piano," by Iwan Muller; "The Round of the Goblins," by Antonio Bazzini; "Intermezzo for soprano saxophone and piano," by Emmett Yoshioka; "Apocalyptic for soprano saxophone and piano," by Frederick Koch; and "Aria," by Jacques Ibert.

The final number, Joseph Zawinul's "Birdland," will involve several music education faculty colleagues on trumpet, drums, trombones, and other instruments.

Falcone, director of the MSU Clarinet and Saxophone ensembles, is an applied woodwinds instructor whose classes include clarinet, saxophone, oboe, and bassoon. A Syracuse University graduate, she is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music.

A lecturer in the music education department and organist for the First Presbyterian Church of Starkville, Payton has extensive experience as an accompanist for soloists, ensembles and dancers. She earlier taught at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Haton, a South Carolina native, is completing a doctorate at the University of Georgia. A published arranger and composer, he also is active as a clinician, performer and adjudicator.

For more information about the Lyceum Faculty Chamber Series concert, telephone (662) 325-3070.

For more information about the Lyceum Series, telephone 325-4201 or visit http://www.msstate.edu/dept/lyceum/.