Music at Maryville Concert Series 2025-2026

• Free admission to all performances!
• All events will take place in the Maryville University Auditorium.
• Concerts will not be live-streamed, so please join us in person.

Concert 5 of 5 — Peter Henderson, pianist & composer • Jeffrey Heyl, bass-baritone

Saturday, April 11, 2026 • 1:00 p.m.

Program (available here, with weblinks to sung texts):

Peter Henderson: “To Barbara” (text: John Wickersham) (composed 2026 • World Premiere) (ca. 4 minutes)

Gustav Mahler: Rückert-Lieder (texts: Friedrich Rückert) (composed 1901-02) (ca. 21 minutes)

1. “Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft!” (“I breathed a delicate fragrance”)
2. “Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!” (“Do not look at my songs”)
3. “Liebst du um Schönheit” (“If you love for beauty”)
4. “Um Mitternacht” (“At midnight”)
5. “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (“I am lost to the world”)

Intermission

Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 (composed 1828) (ca. 40 minutes)

1. Allegro
2. Andantino
3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Trio: Un poco più lento
4. Rondo: Allegretto – Presto

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Past 2025-2026 Events

Concert 1 of 5 — Morris Hayes, keyboard & Kip Blackshire, vocals

• Friday, September 26, 2025 • 3:30 p.m.
• Morris Hayes was bandleader and keyboardist with the iconic artist Prince. Morris will lead a performance workshop and jam session featuring students from Maryville’s Music Therapy Program. After intermission, Morris and Kip will perform a set together.

Concert 2 of 5 — STRIO, featuring SLSO musicians Kristin Ahlstrom, violin • Shannon Williams, viola • Bjorn Ranheim, cello

• Tuesday, December 9, 2025 • 7:30 p.m.
• Program:
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio in C minor, op. 9 no. 3
  • Ernő Dohnányi: Serenade for String Trio, op. 10
  • Robert Schumann: Quartet for Piano and String Trio in E-flat major, op. 47 (with Peter Henderson, piano)

Concert 3 of 5 — Jesse Kavadlo, author and rock musician

• Sunday, February 22, 2026 • 12:00 noon
• Rock and Pages! Maryville University English Professor Jesse Kavadlo will perform and analyze several heavy metal songs, and also read from his new book, Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal.

Concert 4 of 5 — Yu Tamaki Hoso, trombone • Christopher Bassett, bass trombone

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 • 7:30 p.m.

with Peter Henderson, piano

Program:

J. Guy Ropartz (1864-1955): Pièce for Trombone and Piano (1908) (ca. 7 minutes) — Yu Tamaki Hoso, tenor trombone

Franz Strauss (1822-1905): Nocturno for Horn (arr. Trombone) and Piano, Op. 7 (1864) (ca. 6 minutes) — Yu Tamaki Hoso, tenor trombone

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Vocalise-étude for High Voice (arr. Bass Trombone) and Piano (1935) (ca. 4 minutes) — Christopher Bassett, bass trombone

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958): From Songs of Travel for Voice (arr. Bass Trombone) and Piano (1901-1904) (excerpts ca. 12 minutes, total) — Christopher Bassett, bass trombone

• 3. The Roadside Fire
• 2. Let Beauty Awake
• 7. Whither Must I Wander?
• 4. Youth and Love

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen (Litany for the Feast of All Souls) for Voice (arr. Bass Trombone) and Piano, D. 343 (1816) (ca. 4 minutes) — Christopher Bassett, bass trombone

Keiko Takashima (b. 1962): Hear the Spring Calling for Trombone, Bass Trombone, and Piano (2011) (ca. 16 minutes, total) — Yu Tamaki Hoso, tenor trombone • Christopher Bassett, bass trombone

1. Dawn
2. Sea Breeze
3. Sakura