{"id":28507,"date":"2025-08-21T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=28507"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:14:13","slug":"marshall-to-present-faculty-recital-celebrating-works-of-maurice-ravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/marshall-to-present-faculty-recital-celebrating-works-of-maurice-ravel\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall to present faculty recital celebrating works of Maurice Ravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University\u2019s School of Music will present a faculty recital entitled \u201cHappy 150th Birthday Maurice Ravel\u201d both on and off campus.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will feature Dr. Kamerhan Turan on piano. He is a Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Professor at Marshall and currently teaches piano and also works as the director of the School of Music at Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey. Also performing will be \u015e\u00f6len Dikener on cello and Alexander Malaimare on violin.<\/p>\n<p>They will play at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Smith Recital Hall and again at noon on Thursday, Sept. 4, at First Presbyterian Church of Huntington, located at 1015 Fifth Ave., with a slightly different program. The second performance is the first event of the School of Music\u2019s Chamber Music Concert Series, which continues each month during the fall and spring semesters at First Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>The musicians will be performing Claude Debussy&#8217;s \u201cCello Sonata\u201d and Ravel&#8217;s \u201cOiseaux Tristes &amp; Alborada del Gracioso\u201d for solo piano, as well as a movement from his \u201cSonata for Violin and Cello\u201d and \u201cPiano Trio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2025, many classical music organizations and educational institutions around the world are celebrating the musical genius of this French composer on the 150th anniversary of his birth,\u201d Dikener said.<\/p>\n<p>Ravel was an integral part of Impressionism in music and the modern movement, Dikener said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe combined progressive musical techniques with the eclectic colors of exotic cultures,\u201d he said, adding that Ravel\u2019s mother came from the Basque region of Spain, which influenced his music.<\/p>\n<p>Both performances are free and open to all. The recitals are sponsored by the School of Music in the College of Arts and Media, and the Chamber Music Concert Series also has sponsorship from First Presbyterian Church of Huntington, with support from the city of Huntington.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University\u2019s School of Music will present a faculty recital entitled \u201cHappy 150th Birthday Maurice Ravel\u201d both on and off campus. The concert will feature Dr. Kamerhan Turan on piano. He is a Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Professor at Marshall and currently teaches piano and also works as the director of the School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cam","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28508,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28507\/revisions\/28508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}