USU's Logan Canyon Winds Faculty Quintet Plays Nov. 3

Utah State University’s Caine School of the Arts and Department of Music present faculty quintet Logan Canyon Winds Monday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Hall on the USU campus (approximately 1090 E. 675 North, Logan).

Tickets are $5 or free to USU and K-12 students. They are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office online, or by calling (435) 797-8022.

Founded in 1991, Logan Canyon Winds has performed for national conferences, including Chamber Music America, The American Orff-Schulwerk Association and the National Association of Collegiate Wind and Percussion Instructors. The quintet has recently been made the beneficiary of a significant planned gift from Wilford and Marjorie Gardner.

Logan Canyon Winds is one of only two faculty wind quintets in the state of Utah, and the only one at a state institution. Logan Canyon Winds includes Leslie Timmons, flute; Carolyn Bodily, bassoon; Nicholas Morrison, clarinet; Bonnie Schroeder, oboist and Steven Park, horn.

In the Nov. 3 performance the quintet presents repertoire that spans 300 years of music history. The opening work is a transcription of the popular Little Fugue in G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. The arrangement, by Michael Kibbe, preserves the original key and colors of the work, tastefully using the tonal pallet of the wind quintet instead of the organ.

Next is the Wind Quintet by Danish composer Carl Nielsen. A standard work for wind quintets, the piece takes advantage of the different sounds and personalities of the instruments of the quintet. The quintet concludes with a set of variations on Nielsen’s original hymn tune, Min Jesus, Lad Mit Hjerte Faa (My Jesus, My Heart Loves Thee). Since its premiere in 1922, the Nielsen Quintet has been a staple of the wind quintet repertoire.

Following the Nielsen composition, two other composers’ works will be performed, including a piece by French composer Charles Edouard Lefebvre (1843-1917), and Hungarian Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000).

“The Lefebvre is very light and airy,” said clarinetist Nicholas Morrison. “The Farkas is a light, fun way to end this program with a tour-de-force for all of the instruments.”