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A DAY Faculty Concert
October 7, 2004
CARROLLTON, GA - The University of West Georgia Music Department will present its annual A DAY for West Georgia faculty concert on Monday, Oct.18 at 8:15 p.m. in Kathy Cashen Hall in the humanities building, located on the University of West Georgia campus. The concert is open to scholarship donors, friends of music and the public.
The
concert, which features both full and part-time music faculty and guest
artists, is a gesture of thanks to the west Georgia community for its
support of music students and the music program. Dr. Beheruz Sethna, University
president, and Dr. Kevin Hibbard, Music Department chair, will welcome
the audience with brief remarks before the start of the musical program.
Performances will include vocal and instrumental solos and duets, and range in style from Baroque to contemporary. Performers include soprano Julie Lowry and Terry Lowry, piano; Larry Frazier, bass; baritone Kevin Hibbard and pianist Jan Adams, organist Dawn McCord, piccolo Anna Thibeault and percussionist Doug Overmier, guitarist Thomas Garcia, Ellie Jenkins on French horn, saxophonist John Bleuel and pianist Linda Li-Bleuel, saxophonist Mariano Pacetti, pianist Daniel Bakos and Ned Watson III on the electric bass.
Works range from a 17th-century song by Henry Purcell to very different mid-20th century works by Czechoslovakian composer Karel Husa and jazz great Thelonious Monk. John Luther Adams’ “Songbird Songs” for flute and percussion and Rossini’s comic “Cats” duet are light-hearted pieces, while an aria from Puccini’s “La Rondine” and the Schumann and Mahler settings of “Leibst du um Schoenheit” lean toward the Romantic era. While Karel Husa’s work is “somber and atonal… [and] angry and flamboyant with spectacular tour de force writing for the solo instrument,” according to a “New York Times” review, Monk’s “Well You Needn’t” is classic bebop, light on its feet. Brazilian choros on guitar, a fantasy work for solo horn, and two of Calvin Hampton’s dances for organ will round out the program.
In addition to the concert, the public is invited to enjoy an art exhibit of selected Audubon prints from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. James Rash. Gallery I in the Humanities lobby will open at 7 p.m. so that guests may peruse these rare prints from the “Birds of America” folios. There will also be a reception for University and Music Department patrons and friends in the lobby between the gallery and Cashen Hall, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
For more information on this free event, call the Department of Music at 770-836-6516.
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