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A recital by the Heterodyne Duo, originally scheduled for 6 p.m. March 12 in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus, has been canceled.

The Heterodyne Duo will present a program of contemporary works for different configurations of percussion and saxophone when the duo performs at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

The duo features Dr. Nathan Nabb, SFA professor of saxophone, and Dr. Brad Meyer, director of percussion studies at SFA. They will perform “Walk the Walk” by Michael Daugherty, “Grab It!” by JacobTV and “Ajax Is All About Attack” by Robert Hasegawa.

In “Walk the Walk,” Daugherty takes the listener “through a world of virtuosic Detroit blues, rock, jazz and Latin Motown musical grooves,” according to Meyer, while “Grab It!” explores the “no-man’s-land” between language and music.

“Ajax Is All About Attack” is inspired by Jim Shepard’s short story by the same name about the Amsterdam soccer team Ajax. The piece “uses the upper register of the soprano saxophone, in a musical language including many microtonal intervals,” Hasegawa said of his composition. “The interplay between the saxophonist and percussionist demands that the performers follow each other closely, ever sensitive to nuances of rhythm and phrasing, as they jointly carve patterns in a musical ‘football pitch.’”

Meyer frequently tours to universities and high schools both nationally and internationally to present recitals, workshops, master classes, and clinics on various topics, including electro-acoustic percussion, contemporary marimba, concert snare drum, marching percussion, percussion ensemble, steel band and world music. His international performances and clinics have taken him to Austria, Taiwan, France, South Africa and Slovenia.

Nabb also maintains a vibrant and diverse international schedule as a performer, clinician and teacher. He is a regular performer with the St. Louis and Houston symphonies and has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, New World Symphony and IRIS Chamber Orchestra. Nabb was a finalist at the Coleman International Chamber Music Competition and a three-time semifinalist at the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. His current activities span the United States, Europe and Asia, and his career was featured in the March/April 2010 issue of the “Saxophone Journal.”

Tickets for the concert, which is a presentation of the SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Music, are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.

Terri and Gabriel Sánchez will perform a guest flute and piano concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

Part of the Cole Performing Arts Series, the recital will feature the music of Frédéric Chopin, Katherine Hoover, George Barrère, George Chave, Joachim Andersen and Cecile Chaminade.

Terri Sánchez is the visiting assistant professor of flute at the University of Texas at Arlington and has won many national flute competitions. She also performed with the SMU Meadows and UNT Symphony orchestras as a winner of both university concerto competitions. She has given pedagogy presentations that revolve around a positive, creative approach to flute performance at the National Flute Association Convention, the San Diego Flute Guild Festival, the Texas Flute Symposium and many universities.

Gabriel Sánchez is the collaborative artist in piano at the University of Texas at Arlington and classical keyboardist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He has performed throughout the United States and internationally in recital and as a soloist with orchestras, including performances at Pianofest in the Hamptons, New York, with the Dallas Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco and the Irving Symphony. He maintains a select private piano studio, is involved with DSO educational outreach programs, and coaches students in workshops and master classes.

While they are on campus, Terri Sánchez will present a master class for the flute studio and Gabriel Sánchez will clinic the accompanying class.

Tickets for the concert, which is a presentation of the SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Music, are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.

An upcoming Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre event will help raise funds for theatre students to travel to Edinburgh, Scotland, in August where they will present an SFA student-written play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

During the two-week trip to Edinburgh, the School of Theatre will produce two new plays, including “Hate Mail” by SFA playwright-in-residence Jack Heifner and the student-written “Mom and Dad” by Nick Pinelli and Allison Day. Pinelli, The Woodlands senior, and Day, San Antonio senior, wrote the play as an honors project for their class with Heifner.

A staged reading of “Mom and Dad” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13, in the Upstage Theatre in the Griffith Fine Arts Building on the SFA campus.

““Mom and Dad’ is an eye-opening and humorous piece about gender perceptions,” said Angela Bacarisse, professor of design and arts management at SFA. “The play takes a young couple, newly dating, and throws them into marriage and parenthood. The couple faces the highs and lows of their new life together, and in the end, they have to decide if it is worth moving forward together.”

Bacarisse will direct both plays.

Begun in 1947, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, one of several festivals that will take place in Edinburgh while the SFA students are there, has become the largest international theatre arts festival in the world. During festival season, which is three weeks in August, the International Festival, the Festival Fringe, jazz festival, art festival and book festival all take place in Edinburgh.

Tickets to the reading are $25 each available at the door, and seating is limited. There will be a reception after the performance where patrons may meet the students participating in the project.

To reserve a seat at the reading or to help fund the students’ travel, contact Bacarisse at abacarisse@sfasu.edu or (936) 468-1126. Tax-exempt donations can be made at sfasu.edu/giving by clicking on the “give online” tab and writing “Scotland trip” for special instructions.

Visit theatre.sfasu.edu to learn more about the SFA School of Theatre.