UT Dallas Musica Nova ensemble gives free concert on Friday

by PegNews wire

DALLAS — Robert Xavier Rodríguez, a professor of music at The University of Texas at Dallas, will direct the UT Dallas Musica Nova ensemble in a free concert on Friday, April 13, at 8 p.m. in the university’s Jonsson Performance Hall.

The evening will feature UT Dallas students, accompanied by pianist Jeff Lankov, performing romantic vocal and instrumental chamber music of the 19th and 20th centuries. The concert will include Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D-Minor, Frederick Chopin’s Fantasy in F-Minor, songs by Robert Schumann, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Broadway favorites by Leonard Bernstein and Rodriguez’ Fantasia Lussuriosa.

Musica Nova guest artists have included members of the Dallas Symphony and Dallas Opera Orchestras and singers from the New York City Opera and Metropolitan Opera. Past Musica Nova concerts have ranged from Medieval and Renaissance dances and motets to standard repertoire to experimental new works written for or developed by the ensemble. Concerts have included an evening of jigs, an evening of tangos, French cabaret and mariachi songs, chamber opera, ballet and a fully staged commedia dell'arte pantomime.

More information about the concert may be found at UTD's Web site.

Source: UT Dallas