TTU faculty Pulte, Godes, Hansen in recital
Tennessee Tech University music department faculty members Diane Pulte, Catherine Godes and Jeremy Hansen will present a recital on Thursday, March 25, in Wattenbarger Auditorium located in the Bryan Fine Arts Building. The recital, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.
The program will feature works for voice, piano, horn and duo-piano. Pulte will sing six songs from the “Spanish Songbook” by Hugo Wolf. Wolf was an Austrian composer noted for his art songs. He brought to this form a concentrated, expressive intensity unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the second Viennese School in concision but unrelated in technique.
Hansen will join Pulte and Godes in a performance of “Three Nocturnes for Soprano, Horn and Piano” written by the celebrated English composer Arnold Cooke.
Godes will then be joined by her student, Joshua Davis, in a performance of Rachmaninoffʼs “Suite No. 1: Fantasy for Two Pianos.” This powerful work has four movements, each prefaced by a poem by Russian poets. The work explores a variety of sonorities from the two instruments.
Davis will be a piano performance major at TTU in Fall 2010. He already has distinguished himself in the Music Teachers National Association senior piano competitions, and has won the TTU Young Artist Piano Competition. He will be playing a Steinway Concert D Grand, which will be donated for this performance by the Nashville Steinway Gallery.
According to Godes: “It is our hope that the TTU School of Music will eventually become an all-Steinway school. We greatly appreciate the support given to our department by the Nashville Steinway Gallery and hope to increase the number of private donations to help us reach this goal. The Steinway is the finest instrument in the world and continues to be the gold standard for universities throughout the country.”
