The Performing Arts Series at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, will present flutist Carolyn Brown, the Rockefeller String Quartet, and Sturgis String Quartet in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the First United Methodist Church.
All musicians are members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
Brown is principal flutist of the ASO and is professor of flute at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. She and her husband, pianist Carl Anthony, perform throughout the United States and abroad as the Dionysus Duo and recently released their first compact disc recording featuring Brown’s transcriptions of music by Amy Beach and Clara Schumann.
The Rockefeller and Sturgis Quartets were created in 2000 through the collaborative efforts of the ASO, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, and the Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust to create small chamber groups that perform for school children throughout the state as part of the Arts Partners Program. Their outreach efforts enable more than 11,000 school children in Arkansas to have exposure to classical performing arts each year.
The program will feature original works by Amy Beach, a prominent American female composer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Dmitri Shostakovich, Mozart, and Beethoven.
The concert is free and open to the public.
