JEFFERSON ORGAN RECITAL ON SEPT. 15

David Herman, Trustees Distinguished Professor of Music and University Organist, will begin the third season of the Jefferson Organ Recital Series at 3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 15, in Bayard Sharp Hall. Violinist Xiang Gao, assistant professor of music, is the featured artist. Admission is $8. UD students are admitted free with ID.

The program will feature works celebrating the centennials of William Walton and Maurice Durufle. Together, Herman and Gao will perform Bach's Sonata No. 4, in C minor.

An active recitalist, Herman has performed on many of the most noted organs and carillons of North America, Britain and Germany. In 1982, he presented seven recitals in Germany as the only American guest in the Nordelbische International Orgelkonzerte series. He also is organist at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Newark.

Herman is active in the American Guild of Organists and served on the faculties for two of the AGO's national "Pipe Organ Encounter" programs in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Also an author and composer, he has written The Life and Work of Jan Bender, and his choral and organ works are included in the catalogs of five American publishers.

Emerging as one of today's most promising artists, Gao has won praise from a critic in The New York Times who called him "a rare, soulful virtuoso of our time." The first violinist from the People's Republic of China to attain an international career, Gao has appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York, Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, at the Spoleto Music Festival and in recital throughout North America, as well as Europe, Scandinavia and South America. His new CD, Kind of Colorful, was released recently on Prestant Records.

Tickets for this recital may be purchased in advance at the Trabant University Center or Bob Carpenter box offices.