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Hanson to perform flute concert at UT Martin


Sarah Beth Hanson, concert flutist and principal flutist of the Baton Rouge Symphony and the Louisiana Sinfonietta, will present a recital at 8:00 p.m. Monday Feb. 10, in the Harriet Fulton Theater.

The program is jointly sponsored by the Martin Area Music Teachers Association and the Martin Philharmonic Music Guild with support from the UTM Department of Music.

In the spring of 1999 Hanson gave her New York debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall with a return engagement in 2000.

She has released a solo CD entitled The Girl with the Flaxen Hair and is featured on a disc of flute works by internationally renowned composer Dinos Constantinides. Her degrees are from Florida State University where she was a student of Charles DeLaney.

Ms. Hanson will perform several 20th century works, romantic in character, by John Rutter and Carl Reinecke along with a special Nocturne for alto flute by Caesar Giovannini. Pianist will be Dr. Elaine Harriss, associate professor of Music.

Ms. Hanson will be joined by Dr. Dave McClune, clarinetist and Professor of Music at Union University, for Robert Muczynski’s Duos for Flute and Clarinet.

A special piece for flute and tape as well as arrangements of three much loved French pieces, including Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Faure’s Berceuse are also on the program.

The program will be at UTM on Monday night, then repeated on Tuesday evening, Feb. 11, at 7;30 p.m. in Hartley Hall on the Union University campus.

This excellent program is a gift to the community and free of charge. The public is cordially invited.

For more information, call the Dept. of Music at 7401.