Tango Music Takes Center Stage at Sturm Faculty Recital

Hans Sturm
Hans Sturm

Double bassist Hans Sturm and pianist Ann Chang perform a recital of expressive and passionate tango music by the legendary Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 2 at Kimball Recital Hall.

“Piazzolla's music invites hyperbole,” Sturm said. “It is as powerful as a midwestern spring thunder storm -- at one moment everything is calm, warm and clear and then, unexpectedly, the sky suddenly darkens with driving rains creased by lightening. His music, Tango Nuevo, revolutionized the tango of his childhood with jazz harmonies, classical forms, and angular rhythms. It is the most vivid music I know.”

The majority of pieces have been transcribed by Sturm for the double bass as the solo voice, including the virtuosic Le Grand Tango composed for cellist Mstistlav Rostropovich and the evocative Oblivion, the theme to the movie Henry IV.

Bio: Double bassist Hans Sturm has performed as soloist, chamber, orchestral, jazz and improvisational musician throughout Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and the United States. Sturm received his doctorate from Northwestern University and, prior to his appointment to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music, was Professor of Double Bass and Jazz Studies and Coordinator of the String Department at Ball State University for seventeen years, now Professor Emeritus.

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