4/28/2005

Contact: K.E. Schwab  -- 724-738-2199;  e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu

SUNDAY’S ‘PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA’ TO FEATURE SRU STUDENTS

     SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University music students taught by Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon, professor of music, will present "Piano Extravaganza," a recital of four- and eight-hand piano selections at 8 p.m. Sunday [May 1] in Swope Recital Hall. 

     Admission for the general public is $3; SRU students free.

      The program will include duets by Fanny Mendelssohn, Satie, Faure, Barber and others as well as two-piano, eight-hand arrangements of Bach, Sicilienne, a Joplin rag fantasy and the Waltz from Gounod's Faust.

     Students participating are: Erica Arnold of Reinholds, Bonnie Buzzard of Munhall, Erin Close of Ijamsville, Md., Kristianna Fry of Cabot, Ellen Gross of Emmaus, Kelly Hiser of Butler, Maegan Hunt of Beaer Falls, Markus Kaiser of Germany, Cassandra Rondinelli of West Mifflin, Jennifer Szurek of Greensburg, Andrea Zahuranec of Polk, and a guest appearance by Dr. Bradley Wilson, SRU professor of philosophy.