Bartok Sonata Included in Collier Sept. 22 Recital

David Collier's recital on Tuesday, Sept. 22, will feature one of composer Bela Bartok's favorite, most popular and most-performed works, Sonata for two pianos and percussion.  It is considered one of Bartok's greatest compositions and one of his most-perfectly constructed scores.

The recital will be at 8 p.m. in the Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall.  Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for ISU faculty-staff and $4 for students and senior citizens.  Tickets are available at the CPA box office weekdays or by phone at (309) 438-2535.

Collier is calling the concert "Influences" and will perform a wide range of compositional styles that offer a variety of cultural influences.   Among them will be the rarely heard Partita for Solo Timpani by Carlos Chavez.  This work, written in 1973, incorporates the traditional movements of a Baroque keyboard partita while exploring the contemporary tonal possibilities of the modern timpani.

The influence of North Indian music is evident in the piece "Mudra" by Bob Becker.  The chamber work will feature Collier as drum soloist along with a chamber ensemble in a work originally composed for the dance "UrbhanaMudra" by choreographer Jaon Phillips.  Within this work, the Indian interval relationships of the raga Chandrakauns are used as are the rhythmic cadence formulas know as ti hai.

The program will conclude with the Bartok Sonata, a three-movement work composed in 1937.  Collier will be joined by faculty pianists Paul Borg and Tuyen Tonnu and percussionist Derek Boughey.