UWG News Item
Contact: UWG Public Relations Office
Phone (678) 839-6464, FAX (678) 839-6645
ucm@westga.edu
A DAY Concert
October 10. 2005
CARROLLTON, GA - The University of West Georgia music faculty will add an evening of musical performances to the many events scheduled for the university’s annual A DAY activities. The A DAY Music Faculty Concert will take place on Monday, Oct. 17, at 8:15 p.m. in Kathy Cashen Recital Hall, Humanities, on the university campus.
The
annual free concert features full- and part-time music faculty and provides
an opportunity for students and the general public to hear many of our
community’s most accomplished musicians. In keeping with the A DAY
mission, patrons and friends of the Department of Music will be honored
with a complimentary donor reception at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities lobby
immediately before the concert.
This year’s concert features chamber music for combinations of organ, clarinet, saxophone, piano, percussion, trumpet, trombone, voice, violin, euphonium, guitar and flute, and ranges in style from Baroque to modern.
Performers include pianists Jan Adams, Daniel Bakos, Linda
Li-Bleuel, Carol Gingerich, Terry Lowry, and Peter Mueller; organist Dawn
McCord; saxophonists John Bleuel and Mariano Pacetti; violinist Elizabeth
Kramer; percussionist Douglas Overmier; and two singers, bass Larry Frazier
and soprano Julie Lowry. Other performers include Brian Luckett, guitar;
Melanie Fuller, flute; Eric Slay, trombone; and Kevin Mobbs, Philip Elkins
and Roger Danes, trumpets; Elizabeth Jones, euphonium; and Ned Watson,
bass guitar.
Works include a sonata by Albinoni, the “catalogue aria” from
Don Giovanni by Mozart, selections from Piazzolla’s Histoire du
Tango and Corelli’s “La follia” variations, and an aria
from Puccini’s La Boheme.
Modern works include William Penn’s Perpetual Motion, an organ sonata by Hugo Distler, Michael Garson’s Jazz Variations on a Theme by Paganini, an arrangement of Launy Grondahl’s Concerto for Trombone, William Wiedrich’s Reverie, Ida Gotkovsky’s Brilliance, a cabaret song by William Bolcom, and “Back to School Blues” by Dan Bakos.
The performance is free and for more information, call the Department of Music at 678-839-6516.
-30-