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1/17/2005
Contact:
K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199; e-mail:
karl.schwab@sru.edu
SRU
FACULTY TO OFFER MUSIC TOUR OF VIENNA AT SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT
CONCERT
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The works of Haydn,
Schubert and the blend of Schoenfield’s American, Viennese,
light classical and Broadway styles will be featured when the
Slippery Rock Piano Trio performs “An Afternoon in
Vienna” at 4 p.m. Jan. 30 to benefit the Dwight and Jeane
Baker Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Admission
requires a $10 minimum donation for adults, $5 for students with
proceeds benefiting SRU music majors concentrating in piano or
strings. The concert will be held in Swope Music Hall on the SRU
campus.
The
Baker scholarship honors two, long-term SRU faculty members. The
late Mr. Baker served as director of the SRU Men’s Glee Club
and supervisor of student teaching and as music department chair
oversaw creation of SRU’s bachelor of science in music
education degree. Mrs. Baker, who died in 2003, joined the SRU
music faculty in 1964 to teach piano and served as accompanist for
numerous SRU musical groups as well as 52 years as choir director
at Highland Presbyterian Church in Slippery
Rock.
The
program will offer Haydn’s “Trio in C Major,”
Schubert’s “Trio in B-flat” and
Schoenfield’s “Café Music,” which was
premiered in 1985 after commission by the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra in Minneapolis, Minn. Schoenfield explains that the
composition came to him “after sitting in one night for the
pianist at Murrays Restaurant in Minneapolis. Murrays employs a
house trio, which plays entertaining dinner music in a wide variety
of styles. My intention was to write a kind of high-class
dinner music, which could be played at a restaurant, but might also
just barely find its way into a concert
hall.”
Performers
for the scholarship concert will be SRU faculty members
•
Warren Davidson, instructor of music and conductor of the Slippery
Rock Symphony Orchestra. At SRU, he teaches violin, viola and
string classes. He holds his bachelor of arts as a master of music
in violin from Duquesne University and a master of music in theory
and composition from the University of Pittsburgh. He is working
toward a doctoral degree at West Virginia
University.
•
Paula Tuttle, an instructor of music at SRU who also teaches at
Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne universities, is a graduate of the
Eastman School of Music. She has performed with the Pittsburgh
Opera and Ballet Opera at Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center. She
has toured the Far East with orchestras and participated in the
Spoleto Festival, the Colorado Music Festival and the Acadamie
Franco-Americain.
•
Nanette Kaplan Solomon, a member of the SRU faculty since 1977,
teaches piano, music history, music skills and women in music
classes. An active performer, she has appeared as a recitalist,
soloist and with orchestra and chamber groups. She has also
presented lecture-recitals at national and international
conferences throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Japan,
Ireland, Germany, France and Austria. She is a Yale College
master’s graduate and holds her doctorate from Boston
University. She has released three compact discs.
PN, PgN,
WPN, PR, S
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