NEWS RELEASE
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Musical Events
For the Week of Monday, April 1
MAILED: March 22, 2002
EAU CLAIRE — The University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire music and theatre arts department will present the
following musical performances the week beginning Monday, April 1. All events
are free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3:
- Senior soprano Lisa Butcher, Woodbury, Minn., will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m. in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Various works will be performed, including "Dearest Mama," from "The Ballad of Baby Doe" by Douglas Moore; Jake Heggie's "I Shall Not Live in Vain," from "The Faces of Love"; and "Sara Lee" by John Kander. Community member Judy Lies will provide accompaniment on the piano.
FRIDAY, APRIL 5:
- Michael Cunningham, professor of music, will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Eight works, all composed by Cunningham, will be performed, including "Parisian Sonata," Op. 72, a song written to reactivate the methods from the French Six movement earlier in the 20th century, and four works that Cunningham has never presented in a concert setting. Various UW-Eau Claire music faculty and students will perform for this recital.
SUNDAY, APRIL 7:
- Les Favorites, a period instrument ensemble specializing in the music of
the middle and late baroque period, will perform at 4 p.m. in Phillips
Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Performers include community
members Laura Handler, baroque violoncello, and Lucinda Marvin, baroque
violin; associate professor of music and theatre arts Dr. Tim Lane,
baroque flute; and professors of music and theatre arts Nanette Lunde,
harpsichord, and Ivar Lunde Jr., baroque oboe. The group will perform five
works, including pieces by Gianbattista Cirri, Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt and
Georg Philipp Telemann.
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News Bureau
Judy Berthiaume
UW-Eau Claire News Bureau
Schofield 201
(715) 836-4741
newsbur@uwec.edu
Updated: March 22, 2002