TWU Schedules April Music Events

4/7/03

DENTON — The Texas Woman’s University Department of Music will present a series of musical events during April. All events are free and open to the public.

• Dr. Nicki S. Cohen, associate professor of music, and Mr. Gabriel Bita, adjunct faculty member, will present a joint faculty recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in the Margo Jones Performance Hall, located at Oakland and Sawyer streets. Cohen, a lyric soprano, will perform selected pieces by Leonard Bernstein, Helen Greenberg, Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini. Bita will perform the Piano Sonata Number 3 in B Minor by Frederic Chopin. A reception will follow the recital.
  
• Mr. Carlo Pezzimenti, a TWU adjunct faculty member in the Department of Music, will perform a program by composer Ernesto Garcia de Leon in a guitar recital scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 17 in the Little Chapel-in-the-Woods.
  
• The TWU Concert Choir and Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Susan Davenport Stewart, assistant professor of music, will present a concert of Baroque masterpieces Saturday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in the Margo Jones Performance Hall. The performance will feature Giovanni Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and selections from Johann Hasse’s Miserere. Also included on the program are selected solos and duets from the Baroque era, including works by Vivaldi and J.S. Bach.
  

For more information on these events, contact the TWU Department of Music and Drama at (940) 898-2500.

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For Further Information Contact:

Karen Treat
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Tel: (940) 898-3456
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