UWG Centennial Concert
The Centennial A DAY Concert will take place on Monday, Oct.16, at 8:15 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts on the university campus. Current and retired music faculty and alumni from the University of West Georgia will join in the many events scheduled for this year’s A DAY fund raising campaign with a collaboration of musical performances.
The annual concert is a free event that provides UWG students and the community an opportunity to enjoy some of the area’s best musical talent.
Friends and devotees of the Department of Music will be honored with a donor reception at 7:30 p.m. prior to the concert.
Alumni performers include Benjamin Pruett, tenor; Amy Wilson, flute; Patricia Callaway, soprano; Bernie Wong, piano; John LaForge, bass-baritone; Charlene Wiggins, piano; Tom MacArthur, flugelhorn; Carla Crawford, alto saxophone; and Ned Watson III, bass.
Retired UWG faculty member George Mann will play piano with faculty including Larry Frazier, bass; Carol Gingerich, piano; Daniel Bakos, piano; Mariano Pacetti, saxophone; and Doug Overmier, drums.
Musical selections will include Gaetano Donizetti’s “Voglio dire” from l’elisir d’amore, Antonio Vivaldi’s Largo, from The Four Seasons—Winter, Wolfgang Mozart’s Come scoglio, from Cosi fan tutte, Georges Bizet’s Au Fond du temple saint, from Les Pêcheures de Perles, Gabriel Fauré’s Le Pas Espa–ol, from Dolly Suite, and Stephen Sondheim’s Pretty Woman, from Sweeny Todd.
The RazzaMaJazz Quintet will also be performing. The group includes Bakos, piano; Mariano Pacetti, saxophone; MacArthur, flugelhorn and trumpet; Watson, bass; and Overmier, drums.
A DAY for West Georgia will take place on Thursday, Oct.19. An A DAY victory celebration will be held in the Campus Center Ballroom at 6:30 p.m.
For more information on A DAY, call Development and Alumni Relations at 678-839-6582. For more information on the Centennial A DAY Concert, call the Department of Music at 678-839-6516.
