Musical interludes

SATURDAY, MAY 4
SINGERS' 'SOUNDSCAPES'

The University Singers will perform at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 4, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. The concert is entitled "Soundscapes," based on a line in Daniel Gawthrop's Sea Visions: "Across the stars the wind sweeps out its tune For all my creatures, sky, and sea and land."

In addition to the Gawthrop work, the program will include Telfer's Of Things Eternal, Johannes Brahms's Four Songs for Women's Chorus,Two Horns and Harp, Op. 17, and Desertscapes by Maggi Payne for two spatially separated choirs.

Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for students. University Singers, directed by Nicole Clouser, is a women's chorus with representation from all colleges in the University. Pianist Lori Geckle accompanies the choir.

For information, call 831-2577.

SUNDAY, MAY 5
RECITAL WILL FEATURE WORKS OF COMPOSERS OF AFRICAN DESCENT

Soprano Marie Robinson, accompanied by pianist Julie Nishimura, will present a recital at 8 p.m., Sunday, May 5, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.

The program features music by composers of African descent. Included are arias from operas by Antonio Carlos Gomes and Joseph Boulogne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Five Songs of Laurence Hope by Harry T. Burleigh, songs by Margaret Bonds, Florence Price and John Wesley Work, Jr., based on poems by Langston Hughes, and works by Moses Hogan and Duke Ellington.

Robinson made her operatic debut as Aida with the Graz Opera, where she was principal soloist for three years. Subsequent engagements took her to Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague, Kassel, Zurich and a tour of Japan with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. She also was a principal soloist for five years with the National Theatre in Mannheim.

For information, call 831-2577.

SUNDAY, MAY 5
CONCERT FOR WORLD PEACE IN MITCHELL HALL

Members of the Department of Music will join faculty, student and community artists to present "Dona Nobis Pacem: A Concert for World Peace," at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 5, in Mitchell Hall. Admission is $8 adults, $4 students.

The program features three major works on themes of the ravages of war and the desire for world peace–Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Pavane by Gabriel Fauré and Choral Fantasia, Op. 80 by Beethoven.

Two major Department of Music ensembles--the Schola Cantorum and the University Orchestra--will perform together for the first time. The Schola Cantorum is a town and gown chorus, with nearly half of its membership comprised of community members. Serving as guest concertmaster of the University Orchestra is violinist and assistant professor of music Xiang Gao.

Faculty guest soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasia is pianist Christine Delbeau. Soprano Nicole Clouser and baritone Jeffrey Chapman are soloists for the Vaughan Williams work.

For information, call 831-2577.