UT Faculty Composers: All-stars take the field

Now that the hordes of visiting music-makers have left for their respective homes, we can turn our attention back to the ones who call our fair city home, such as those distinguished composers who serve on the faculty of the UT School of Music. If you don't already know, the university boasts a roster of composers as celebrated as they are diverse: writers of choral music, electronic music, opera, chamber works and every one a winner of multiple awards, grants, and commissions. If you had a list like this on, say, a baseball team, you'd have the pennant sewn up. Which makes a program featuring music by all of them, to borrow from the national pastime again, the equivalent of an all-star game. And that's just what's on deck at the School of Music this Sunday: Heavy hitters Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, Russell Pinkston, Bruce Pennycook, and Yevgeniy Sharlat are taking the field, with Grantham's La noche en la isla (winner of the 1979 International Horn Society Composition Prize), Welcher's Meditation and Scherzo (a 1994 piece for oboe and piano) and A Waltz for Paul, Pinkston's Don't Look Now (a 1991 piece for string quartet and tape), Penny-cook's Fastdance (a duet for clarinet and computer), and Sharlat's Divertissement. Expect a home-run derby. The concert will be held Sunday, March 25, 4pm, in Jessen Auditorium in Rainey Hall on the UT campus. For more information, call 471-5401, or visit www.music.utexas.edu.