[039] MTSU Faculty Piano Recital: Lynn Rice-See To Perform

For Immediate Release: Aug. 4, 2010
Media Contact: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493 or tmusselm@mtsu.edu


MTSU FACULTY PIANO RECITAL: LYNN RICE-SEE TO PERFORM

(MURFREESBORO) — Lynn Rice-See, faculty pianist at Middle Tennessee State University, will perform piano works by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, in Hinton Music Hall in the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Rice-See discusses the works she will perform:
“The Carnaval, by Robert Schumann, is one of his most popular works,” she said. “It consists of twenty-one vignettes from a masked ball celebrating Fasching, the Austrian equivalent of Mardi gras. Both real people and imaginary characters are depicted.”
Rice-See said the Schumann work will be accompanied by visual aids to assist less experienced concertgoers in tracking the individual movements as they are performed.
“Johannes Brahms’ Three Intermezzi, Op. 117, date from the last years of his life,” continued Rice-See.
“They are very bittersweet, touching short works giving a personal view into his thoughts and regrets as he reflected on his life and career. The first is a lullaby. Brahms never married, yet he adored children. One can hear the tenderness from the very first notes.”
Concerning The sonata by Beethoven, no. 31, Op. 110, Rice-See explains that the dates are from his mature era.
“It is the next-to-last sonata Beethoven wrote for piano,” she said.
“Like the last sonata and his last string quartets, Op. 110 explores an abstract, spiritual realm, and ends with a burst of ecstasy that reminds me of heavenly fireworks,” explained Rice-See.
For more information, contact Tim Musselman in the School of Music at 615-898-2493 or visit www.mtsumusic.com.

About the Performer
Since her 1982 Carnegie Recital Hall debut, Dr. Lynn Rice-See has appeared as recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician in the United States and in Europe. She has appeared three times with the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In the United States, she has appeared as soloist with the Gulf Coast Symphony, the Huntsville Symphony, the Johnson City Symphony and the Kingsport Symphony. In 1992, she appeared in recital in Brussels, sponsored by the Ministere de la Communauté Français, and her 1993 recital tour of Germany was sponsored by the German-American Institute in Saarbrücken. She was a member of the Tennessee Arts Commission touring roster from 1991 through 1994. She holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory and the Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California. Rice-See is a professor in the MTSU School of Music and faculty member since 2005.

In brief
Who: Dr. Lynn Rice-See, MTSU School of Music professor
What: Piano recital, featuring works of Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven
When: 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10
Where: Hinton Music Hall, Wright Music Building at MTSU
Etc.: Event is free and open to the public
Contact: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493 or tmusselm@mtsu.edu

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