HSU Guest Artist Series - Artu Duo

Please join the Humboldt State University Department of Music as they welcome chamber musicians and dedicated music educators Artu Duo, comprised of cellist Ruth Marshall and pianist Garret Ross, on Sunday, March 10th at 2:00 p.m. in Fulkerson Recital Hall. This first Guest Artist Series concert of the new year will feature familiar classical repertoire along with less widely known yet accessible works from the 20th century. The Variations for Cello & Piano in E flat major on Mozart's "Bei Männern" by Ludwig van Beethoven explores a variety of famous themes from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. The Artu Duo will also perform the Sonata in D Major for Cello and Piano, op. 102 no. 2, Beethoven's fifth and final cello sonata which begins with a joyous fanfare, continues with a quiet and introspective second movement, and ends with the most complex fugue imaginable. British composer Frank Bridge began writing his Sonata for Cello and Piano in 1913, and it was completed in 1917. It is in many ways a musical meditation on World War I. The two movement work, at times lyrical and noble, at times fragmented and questioning, ends with a reference to the material of the first movement, symbolizing hope’s triumph over despair. Also on the program will be Sonata in C for Cello and Piano, originally composed for legendary Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich by Benjamin Britten, the well-known British composer who was also the most gifted composition student of Frank Bridge. A superb way to spend a Sunday afternoon. $15 General, $5 Child, $5 HSU students with ID.