- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/norman-boehm/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:00:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Recital to honor retiring 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock resident composer 聽 /news-archive/2018/10/01/robert-boury/ Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:00:48 +0000 /news/?p=72033 ... Recital to honor retiring 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock resident composer 聽]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Department of Music will host 鈥淭he Music of Robert Boury鈥 on Sunday, Oct. 14, as a farewell recital to Dr. Boury, who will retire in December after 37 years of teaching music. The recital will begin at 3 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building and will be performed by guest artist and pianist Norman Boehm, a music professor at Hendrix College, and Suzanne Bannister, soprano. Admission is free and open to the public. The program includes Sonatina for Piano, Carnations for Voice and Piano, Portrait of Chopin for Piano, Songs of Nature and Love (premiere), and selected piano pieces, including two ragtime pieces and three Lost Waltzes. Dr. Boury, professor of music history and composition, will retire in December. 鈥淒r. Bob,鈥 as his students call him, will be remembered for great teaching and for writing the music for 鈥溙切腣log传媒LR Spirit,鈥 the university鈥檚 alma mater. Since 1986, Boury has hosted the annual Songwriters Showcase for students enrolled in his songwriting class and for songwriters in the community. He has also been a composer-in-residence in K-6 schools in North Little Rock as well as Booker T. Washington Elementary and Rockefeller Elementary schools in Little Rock and Mount St. Mary Academy. He has composed many art songs, piano and chamber pieces, three symphonies and most recently, three children’s operas. Currently, he is creating works based on the names of God in the Bible, titled 聽鈥淒ialogue.鈥  ]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to feature pianist Norman Boehm April 8 /news-archive/2018/03/28/pianist-norman-boehm-april-8/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:56:26 +0000 /news/?p=69847 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to feature pianist Norman Boehm April 8]]> Pianist Norman Boehm, professor of music at Hendrix College, will star in a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 8, in the Fine Arts Building鈥檚 Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.聽 The performance, which is free and open to the public, will feature Frederick Delius鈥檚 鈥淭he Walk to the Paradise Garden,鈥 Boehm鈥檚 Sonata in F major, Robert Boury鈥檚 鈥淭hree Lost Waltzes,鈥 Frederic Chopin鈥檚 Barcarolle, Op. 60, as well as Two Poems, Op. 32 by Alexander Scriabin and Robert Schumann鈥檚 Fantasy in C major, Op. 17. Boehm holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree and master鈥檚 degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. As a pianist, he has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, South Africa, and the United States. He specializes in music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has performed a number of single-composer recitals, featuring the music of Faure, Scriabin, Medtner, Ireland, and Grainger. In addition to original composition, he has concentrated in recent years on arranging large-scale symphonic works for chamber ensembles, including the eighth and ninth symphonies of Bruckner and the first symphony of Elgar. For more information, contact the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of Music at 501-569-3294.]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to feature Norman Boehm and Hal Grossman in Oct. 30 performance /news-archive/2017/10/23/norman-boehm-hal-grossman/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:33:27 +0000 /news/?p=68358 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to feature Norman Boehm and Hal Grossman in Oct. 30 performance]]> Pianist Norman Boehm, professor of music at Hendrix College, and violinist Hal Grossman, professor of violin at the University of Oklahoma, will star in a dual recital at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Monday, Oct. 30.聽 The performance, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building on the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock campus. Boehm has performed in Europe and South Africa as well as in the United States. He specializes in music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to performing as soloist and chamber musician, he is also a composer, arranger, and conductor. Grossman has served as professor of violin at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Miami University, and is on the summer faculties at the Aria International Music Academy and Marrowstone Music Festival. He is the founder and creator of The Grossman Method, a pedagogy course for healthy string playing. For more information, contact the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of Music at 501-569-3294. ]]>