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Jeffrey Prater,
professor of music and the
2002-03 Distinguished Humanities Scholar at Iowa State University, will
give a public address and present performances of four of his compositions
on Thursday, April 10.
Prater will speak at 7 p.m. that evening in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital
Hall. A reception will be held at 6 p.m. in the lobby of the Music Hall.
James Bloedel, vice provost for research, will deliver opening remarks
prior to Prater's lecture.
Prater will speak on "A Changing Toolbox: The Impact of Technology
on Composing Acoustic Music (1977-present)." He will focus on the
impact that electronic technology has had on music composers and their
music over the past 25 years.
"Some people express their innermost selves by writing. Others do
so in art," Prater said. "I happen to find it most rewarding
and best in line with my talents and abilities to express myself, my ideas
and emotions in musical sounds."
After his short lecture, four of Prater's compositions will be performed
live for the audience including "Veil Dances," a solo bassoon
piece performed by Jennifer Speer, a Iowa State graduate and current graduate
student in bassoon performance at Northwestern University. Speer commissioned
this work.
Other scheduled performances include "Becalmed" by Sara Compton,
mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth
Sadilek, flute; and Barry
Larkin, percussion. This piece for flute, mezzo-soprano and percussion
is based on a poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This
is the first movement of a three-movement work commissioned by Larkin,
associate professor of music.
A brass quartet featuring James
Bovinette, trumpet; Walter Reed, trumpet; Bret Seebeck, horn; and
David Stuart,
trombone, will perform Prater's 1984 composition "Intrada, Chorale
and Postludium."
"Wind-borne" is a 1994 composition by Prater, commissioned by
the University Museums on a text by Neal
Bowers, distinguished professor of English
at Iowa State. It will be performed by Chorale Midwest of Cedar Rapids,
directed by Michael Reese.
Prater's Distinguished Humanities Scholar Lecture/Performance is sponsored
by the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, the Department
of Music and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.
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