“We started this last year and it was a great success,” said faculty organizer and performer Elisabeth Harrington. “It’s an opportunity to present a concert of diverse music that showcases the wide variety of musical interests and talents of our faculty.”
The early evening event features a host of unique small ensembles, from a piano and trumpet duo to a string quintet and singers from a recent theatrical production. Several members of the local musical community will also perform with the HSU faculty players.
Among the scheduled performances: A string quartet of Cindy Moyer, Karen Davy, Sherry Hanson and Carol Jacobson will play Mozart’s Quartet in G. Brian Post and Shao Way Wu perform a medley of tunes by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
Elisabeth Harrington will reprise two songs from the recent Ferndale Repertory Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, with co-star Craig Benson and other cast members. Daniela Mineva and Gilbert Cline perform Paul Hindemith’s Sonata, which Cline describes as “one of the tour de force moments of the modern era for trumpet and piano.”
Other faculty players include Eugene Novotney, Howard Kaufman, Virginia Ryder and Robin Miller.
The musical smorgasbord will be followed by a real one, with a reception where audience members can meet the players.
The Welcome Concert begins at the early time of 5 p.m. on Saturday September 10 in Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Reception is immediately afterwards. Tickets are $8/$3 students and seniors from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. An HSU Department of Music production. More information: HSUMusic.blogspot.com