Longaker Honors Recital to feature student musicians
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, March 22, 2007
Huntington, Ind.-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
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.,
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 Bela Bartok
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
Pierceton, Ind., with "Mein Lied ertont" 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 (Pathetique), by Ludwig Van Beethoven
senior mezzo-soprano Toni Thomas, a church music major from Markle, Ind., with "La Zingara" by Nicola d'Arienzo.