Horns to highlight Mozart

The Music Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is slated to present basset hornists Forest Aten, Keith Bowen and Dan Leeson, along with UNLV graduate and undergraduate music students, in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23, in the Doc Rando Recital Hall of the Beam Music Center on the UNLV campus, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway.

The musicians are set to perform rarely heard Mozart compositions specifically written for the basset horn, which is a woodwind instrument similar to a clarinet. The performance will include six pieces for singers, clarinetists and basset hornists and a number of instrumental pieces for clarinets, basset horns and bassoon.

Included will be an aria from Mozart's last opera, "La Clemenza di Tito," for soprano and obbligato basset horn. The concert is free and open to the public.


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