Saxophone Ensembles to Present Recital

The Bradley University Saxophone Quartet and Quintet will play a free recital on Thursday, November 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue.  

The Quartet members are Curtis Nelson, baritone saxophone, of Annawan; Jacob Klein, tenor saxophone, of Metamora; Matt Zahner, alto saxophone, of Peoria; and adjunct saxophone teacher Keith M. Zimmerman, soprano saxophone. Christian Sauder of Metamora, alto saxophone, will join to quartet for the quintet program.

The quartet program will consist of Pierre Lantier’s Andante et Scherzetto and Jean Rivier’s monumental Grave and Presto. The quartet also will play a transcription of J.S. Bach’s Aria from the Suite in D; Rogers and Hammerstein’s It Might As Well Be Spring; and Bull Frog Blues, a ragtime piece from the Brown Brothers Saxophone Ensemble of the 1920’s.

The quintet program will consist of the Sinfonia from Cantata 156 by J.S. Bach as transcribed by Robert Sibbing; Poem by Zdenko Fibich; the second movement of Mozart’s Quintet K. 515 for strings transcribed by John Worley; the third movement of the Brahms, op. 111 Quintet for Strings transcribed by Sibbing; and Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio and Allegro from opus 2, No. 6, also a Sibbing arrangement.

The performance is free and open to the public. Call 309.677.2595 for more information.