Contact: David West
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

1/27/98

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES - The LATEX Trombone Quartet will present a recital at Northwestern State University Sunday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

The quartet consists of trombone and low brass faculty from four area universities -- Dr. William B. Mathis of NSU, Michael Davidson of the University of Arkansas at Monticello, William G. Rose of McNeese State University and Dr. J. Mark Thompson of Stephen F. Austin State University.

Works on the program include "Sonata" by Daniel Speer, "Suite: Quartet for Four Trombones," by Flor Peeters, "Two Pieces for Trombone Quartet" by Alexander Arutiunian and "Quartet for Trombones" by Pierre Max Dubois. The quartet will also perform "Recitative and Fugue for Trombone Quartet" by Patrick McCarty, "A Sacred Suite" by Karl Heinrich Graun, Bach's "O Sacred Head," Beethoven's "Three Equale for Four Trombones," "Three Pieces for Trombone Quartet" by Eugene Bozza and "La Chasse" by Alexander Nikolayevich Tscherepnine.

The quartet has performed together over the past eight years in regional orchestras including the Shreveport Symphony, Rapides Symphony, Lake Charles Symphony and Longview Symphony. Members decided to form the quartet to give them an opportunity to perform in a chamber ensemble and have fun with colleagues. The LATEX Trombones will perform a concert/clinic at the Texas Music Educators Association convention in San Antonio next month and will also present concerts at each member's university.

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