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TWU concert to benefit breast cancer research
09/05/06
DENTON —
Beverly Hoch, adjunct assistant professor of voice in Texas
Woman’s University’s School of the Arts, has drawn
inspiration from above for her second annual fund-raising
“Concert for the Cure.”
Titled “The
Heavens Are Telling — Songs of the Sky,” the concert
will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in the Margo Jones
Performance Hall, located at Oakland and Sawyer streets on
TWU’s Denton campus. For more information, call (940)
898-2500.
No admissions will
be charged for the concert, but donations to the North Texas
Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation will
be accepted. The
North Texas Affiliate
serves Denton, Collin and Grayson counties. For more information,
visit www.komennorthtexas.org.
A total of $1,500
was raised during last year’s “Concert for the
Cure,” but Ms. Hoch, a breast cancer survivor who will
mark her fourth cancer-free anniversary in February, wants
to surpass that amount with this concert. She will be joined
in the concert by six Denton pianists — Gabriel Bita
and his wife, Masako Narikawa, accompanists with TWU’s
School of the Arts; Dr. Richard Shuster, assistant professor
of piano at TWU; and current and former University of North
Texas music faculty, Steven Harlos, Harold Heiberg and Jean
Mainous.
Ms. Hoch, a soprano,
will perform songs that celebrate the beauty of the skies.
Other songs, however, speak to the storms that breast cancer
survivors have experienced.
The concert, though,
will end on a hopeful note, with spirituals by Uzee Brown
Jr. Other composers include Haydn, Bach, Schubert, Barber,
Gershwin and more.
“This is
a concert of encouragement and joy,” Ms. Hoch said.
“We all must keep looking up.”
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