Event: Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music presents: Junior recitals by Paul Nesper, Julia Horeled, Margaret Wendt, Amie Dunham, and Colleen McCaskey
Date: March 1 - 4, 2003 (Saturday-Tuesday)
Time: Paul Nesper – March 1, 7:30 p.m.
Julia Horeled & Margaret Wendt – March 2, 5 p.m.
Amie Dunham & Colleen McCaskey – March 4, 8 p.m.
Location: Westbrook Auditorium, Presser Hall, 1210 Park St., Bloomington
Admission: Free, open to the public
Background: Performing his junior recital, Paul Nesper, an orchestral instrument major from Tinley Park, Ill., will play on tuba the works of Merle Hogg, Edward Gregson, Paul Hindemith, John Phillip Sousa, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Nesper will be accompanied by Lecturer in Music Ririko Hayashi on piano and will play the following pieces:
- Sonatina for Tuba and Piano
- Tuba Concerto
- Sonate
- El Capitan
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
For their junior recital, Julia Horeled, an alto music education major from Crystal Lake, Ill., and Margaret Wendt, a mezzo-soprano voice major from Nashville, Tenn., will perform the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Mozart, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gabriel Faure, Benjamin Britten, Lee Hoiby, Ernest Charles, Vincent Persichetti, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilter and Jules Massenet.
Horeled and Wendt will be accompanied by Lecturer in Music Maxie Scifres on piano, and will sing the following pieces:
- Quia Respexit
- Laudamus Te
- Wie Melodien zieght es
- Sonntag
- O liebliche Wangen
- Ablosung in Sommer
- Serenade
- Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
- Ridente la calma
- Voi Che Sapete
- Ah perdona al primo affetto
- Nobles seigneurs, salut!
- Au bord de l’eau
- Va! laisse couler mes larmes
- Now the Leaves
- The Shepard
- And So Goodbye
- Out of the Morning
- Silent Noon
- Love’s Philosophy
Also performing their junior recital, Amie Dunham, a mezzo-soprano music education major from Pontiac, and Colleen McCaskey, a soprano music education major from Odell, Ill., will perform the works of Robert Shumann, John Duke, John Jacob Niles, Randall Thompson, Mozart, Camille Saint-Saens, Ernst Bacon, William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Robert Fleming, and Roberta Bitgood.
Dunham and McCaskey will also be accompanied by Scifres on piano, and will sing the following pieces:
- Er ist’s Opus 79, No. 24
- Widmung Opus 25, No. 1
- Loveliest of Trees
- The Lass from the Low Countree
- Velvet Shoes
- Un moto di gioja
- Mon Coeur s’ouvre a ta voix
- Welche Wonne
- Poor Little Heart
- And This of All My Hope
- Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio
- Orpheus with his lute
- Must the winter come so soon?
- The Confession Stone (Songs of Mary)
- The Greatest of These Is Love
Contact: For more information, contact the Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music office at 309/556-3061.
