J.S. and P.D.Q. Bach featured at March 31 Bach’s Lunch

David Herman, University organist and professor of music

9:18 a.m., March 30, 2004--Bach’s Lunch Series will feature works by Bach—both Johann Sebastian and his zany, 20th-century doppelganger P.D.Q. Bach, aka Peter Schickele—in duets by Julie Nishimura, pianist and faculty accompanist, and David Herman, University organist and professor of music, on Wednesday, March 31. All performances in the series are held from 12:10-12:50 p.m. in Bayard Sharp Hall.

Other performances in the lunch series, all of which are free and open to the public, include:

UD’s high-spirited Gospel Choir, part of the University community for more than 20 years, will perform a program of gospel songs, April 7;
UD alumna, soprano Marybeth K. Miller and accompanist Nicole Aldrich Clouser, who will perform a program of folk songs from the British Isles, April 14;
UD alumnus David Villanueva, who will showcase works by Albéniz, Bach, Chopin and Scriabin in a piano recital on the Bayard Sharp Steinway, April 21;
“Winds of Spring,” which will open a three-concert mini-series, featuring the Del’Arte, UD’s acclaimed woodwind quartet, April 28;
“Flutes and Friends,” which continues the mini-series in a concert of UD flute students under the direction of Eileen Grycky, assistant professor of music, May 5;
“Horns Aplenty!” which will conclude the mini-series, featuring UD horn students, directed by Cynthia Carr, UD professor of music, May 12; and
“Festival of Students,” the annual grand finale and parade of students representing all areas of the Department of Music, May 19.

Julie Nishimura, pianist and faculty accompanist

For more information, call David Herman at 831-2577.

Article by Sue Moncure

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