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4/5/2006
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
‘THREE M’S’ CONCERT AT SRU
TO RAISE FUNDS FOR BAKER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
– A “Three M’s” concert featuring
Mozart, Martin and Mendelssohn will be presented by three Slippery
Rock University music department faculty at 4 p.m. April 23 in
Swope Recital Hall raising funds for the Dwight and Jeane Baker
Memorial Fund Scholarship.
Tickets are $10 for
adults, $5 for students, with additional fund contributions
accepted.
The concert and
scholarship honor the memory of the long-standing music faculty
members who retired in 1983. Mr. Baker joined the faculty as band
director and director of the men’s glee club, the orchestra
and critic teacher in the lab school in 1949. He served as chair of
the music department and oversaw creation of SRU’s bachelor
of science in music education. In addition, he was a composer and
arranger. Ms. Baker joined the faculty in 1965 teaching piano and
class piano. She served as accompanist for the SRU Choir, SRU
Chamber Singers and the SRU Symphonic Choir and performed at
various community and university events in addition to establishing
the Noteworthy Piano Studio in Slippery Rock where she offered
private lessons. She was church organist at Highland Presbyterian
Church in Slippery Rock for 52 years.
The concert
will off Mozart’s “Trio in C Major,”
Martin’s “Trio on Popular Irish Melodies,” and
Mendelssohn’s “Trio in D minor.”
Featured musicians
will be Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon, a professor in the SRU music
department since 1977 teaching piano, music history, music skills
and women in music. She has released three compact discs and
performs with his sister Iris Kaplan as the Kaplan Duo. Warren
Davidson, instructor and conductor of the Slippery Rock Symphony
Orchestra teaching violin, viola and string classes. He is
completing his doctorate studies at West Virginia University and
soloed recently with the Altoona and Westmoreland symphony
orchestras And, Paula Tuttle, an instructor at SRU, who teaches
cello. She has performed with the Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet
Orchestra at the Benedum Center since 1987 and has toured the Far
East with orchestras playing a number of solo and chamber recital
in Europe and across the U.S. She is also a faculty member at
Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne universities.
PN, PGn, WPN, PR, S
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