EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire music and theatre arts department will present the following musical performances the week beginning Monday, April 30. All events are free and open to the public.

TUESDAY, MAY 1:

• The Bassoon Ensemble will perform at 5 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The group consists of seniors Amy Fiumefreddo, Sun Prairie, Toby Yatso, Suamico, sophomore Beth Anne Scherer, Appleton; freshman Kelli Hanson, Duluth, Minn.; and senior lecturer of music and theatre arts, Dr. Kristine Fletcher. Senior Kevin Bartig, Wausau, will assist the group on the harpsichord. Various works will be performed, including "Piper of Drumnadrochit" by Evan Fletcher and "Le Phénix" by Michel Corrette.
  
• Senior alto saxophonist Adam Bassak, Chippewa Falls, accompanied by community member Judy Lies, will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The recital will begin with "Concertino" by Warren Benson, followed by various other works, including "An Arc in Solitude" by Mark Engebretson and "Le Chant Du Veilleur" by Joaquin Nin. Community members Sarah Bassak, mezzo-soprano, and Joe Coughlin, a UW-Eau Claire alumnus on alto saxophone, will assist with the performance.
  
• Jazz IV, conducted by associate professor of music and theatre arts, Robert Baca, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center.

• Seniors Kait Wainscott, Madison, Lisa Wilhelm, Boscobel, and junior Jacqueline Cobian, River Falls, will perform a joint student recital at 5 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Senior Annemarie Travia, South Milwaukee, sophomore Elizabeth Leach, Omaha, Neb., and UW-Eau Claire alumna Rebecca Wilkinson, Eau Claire. Various works will be performed, including "If Music be the Food of Love" by Henry Purcell and "The Best Thing of All" by Marc Blitzstein.
  
• A recital of works by senior Thomas Anderson, a music composition major from Aitkin, Minn., will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center.

• Pianist Titus Vettrus, a freshman from Mondovi, will perform a recital at 5 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Five works will be performed, including "Gaspard de la Nuit" by Maurice Ravel and "Etudes," Op. 25 by Frederic Chopin.

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Updated: April 24, 2001