Faculty Artist Series: Oktubafest: Chris Dickey, tuba
About the event
This year’s Oktubafest begins with Chris Dickey’s faculty recital featuring new music for tuba and euphonium by JaKobe Henry, Cait Nishimura, Barbara York, James Naigus, and a world premiere by Dr. Dickey. The first half concludes with York’s Four Paintings by Grant Wood, an homage to the Iowa-based painter of iconic images “American Gothic” and “Parson Weem’s Fable.” Dickey’s new work is inspired by their grandfather James Dickey (1933-2018) whose wise advice and side-splitting humor contained a string of memorable similes and metaphors. The Sonatina for Tuba and Piano by American composer James Naigus rounds out the program. Pianists Yoon-Wha Roh and Fabio Menchetti will join Dickey for this program.
Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939
Oil on canvas
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
1970.43
Grant Wood (1891–1942)
American Gothic, 1930
Oil on Beaver Board
Art Institute of Chicago