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Longaker Honors Recital to feature student musicians

FOR RELEASE March 23, 2007

Abigail Allwein

HUNTINGTON, IN—Huntington University’s Annual Longaker Honors Recital will be held March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Zurcher Auditorium of the Merillat Centre for the Arts.

The recital will feature the talented young musicians from the Department of Music chosen in a rigorous audition process. The recital program will feature two piano selections and eight vocalists.

There is no charge for admission, and the concert is open to the public. 

Those performing include

• sophomore soprano Abigail Allwein, a theatre performance major from Fort

  Jessica Bauman

  Wayne, Ind., with “Quando Men Vo” (“La Boheme”)  by Giacomo Puccini

• junior soprano Stephanie Baehrens, a sociology major from Oak Harbor, Ohio, with “Noi donne poverine” from “La Finta Giardiniera” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• freshman mezzo-soprano Jessica Bauman, a music business major and daughter of missionaries in Tokyo, Japan, with “Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes” by Bainbridge Crist

• senior baritone Aaron Eberly, an instrumental education major from Ligonier, Ind.,

  Aaron Eberly

  with “Vagabond, Youth and Love” from “Songs of Travel” by Ralph Vaughan Williams

• junior pianist Annie Feldpausch, an economics & finance major and music minor from St. Johns, Mich., with “I. Allegro Vivace” from “Two Romanian Dances,” Op. 82, by Béla Bartók

• freshman soprano Allison Hamman, a Bachelor of Arts music major from Hamilton, Ind., with “Christmas at the Cloisters” by John Corigliano

• junior soprano Kara Judy, a church music major from

  Allison Hamman

  Pierceton, Ind., with “Mein Lied ertönt” from “Gypsy Songs” by Antonin Dvorak, “Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt” by P. Tschaikowsky, and “Zueignung” by Richard Strauss

• freshman baritone Tory Nelson, a digital media arts major from Granger, Ind., with “Bright is the Ring of Words” by Ralph Vaughan Williams

• sophomore pianist Alicia Pyle, a piano performance major from Fort Wayne, Ind., with “Sonata in C minor,” Op. 13 (Pathétique), by Ludwig Van

  Kara Judy

  Beethoven

• senior mezzo-soprano Toni Thomas, a church music major from Markle, Ind., with “La Zingara” by Nicola d’Arienzo.

 

Tory Nelson

Alicia Pyle

Toni Thomas

Huntington University is a comprehensive Christian college of the liberal arts offering graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. U.S.News & World Report ranks Huntington among the best colleges in the Midwest. Founded in 1897 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Huntington University is located on a contemporary, lakeside campus in northeast Indiana. The University is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU).

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