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Faculty recital to feature "Music from Mount Vernon"
Carrie Sands
Issue date: 7/24/08 Section: ARTS & LIFE
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Steven Harlos, UNT professor of music, brings "Music from Mount Vernon" to the faculty chamber recital. The free performance will start at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 24, in the Concert Hall of the UNT Music Building.
The Mount Vernon Music Association is a nonprofit organization that dedicates itself to bringing live music to northeast Texas. Harlos, the co-founder of the organization, said the concert is targeted towards anyone who is interested.
The concert is separated into two quartets: the first by Beethoven and the second by Gabriel Fauré.
The concert will also feature a piece of music Harlos is working on called "Scherzo."
A chamber recital is a small ensemble of musicians, usually consisting of two to eight musicians. This particular chamber recital will have four musicians: Harlos playing the piano, Carol Harlos playing the cello, Mark Miller playing violin, and Ute Miller playing viola. All of the musicians are performers and founders of the Mount Vernon Music Association.
"The purpose is sharing our musical projects with the Denton community," Harlos said.
The Mount Vernon Music Association started in 2005 when Harlos and the other musicians began to restore an old church in Mount Vernon, 120 miles east of Denton. The church is now used as a performance area to bring live performances to the community. The organization performs concerts of traditional chamber music, jazz and other styles for schools, family concerts and nursing homes.
"I'm pleased and privileged that Harlos wanted to include Mount Vernon Music in his recital," Miller said. "He thought it is a great opportunity to play some quartets."
Harlos has been a UNT professor of music for 10 years and staff keyboardist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for 11 years. He has worked with artists such as Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan, Dionne Warwick, Maureen McGovern and Tommy Tune.
Harlos' wife, Carol Harlos, is a freelance cellist who performs with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Miller is concertmaster of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra and performs with the Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Opera orchestras.
Miller's wife, Ute is the principal violist of the East Texas Symphony who plays with the Fort Worth and Dallas symphony orchestras.
"We have had a really good response from people when we've played previously," Miller said, "It's the kind of music that works really well for even a small audience to hear. It has a personal message and is very affirmative, not depressing music."
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