Published September 28, 2016
Monroe, La. 鈥� Dr. James Boldin, Associate Professor of Music, and Dr. Richard Seiler, Professor
of Music, will perform a recital as part of the Visual and Performing Art鈥檚 Faculty
Artist Concert Series on Tuesday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Emy-Lou Biedenharn
Recital Hall.
Their program is titled 鈥淥ld Wine in New Bottles鈥� and will feature transcriptions
of music for horn and piano. A transcription is an adaptation of an existing musical
work from one medium to another, similar in some ways to translating a written work
into another language.
鈥淢usicians have been borrowing music from one another for hundreds of years,鈥� said
Boldin. 鈥淛.S. Bach transcribed Vivaldi鈥檚 violin concertos for the organ, and Franz
Liszt transcribed Beethoven鈥檚 symphonies and Schubert鈥檚 Lieder for the piano. These
adaptations served not only to enrich the repertoire for their respective instruments,
but also to educate and inform them as composers and performers.鈥�听
Admission is free and open to the public.
