Memorial concert to honor longtime music patron
Vol. 17, No. 10Nov. 6, 1997

Memorial concert to honor longtime music patron

Pianists Julie Nishimura and Michael Steinberg

A memorial concert in honor of longtime patron of music and theatre, Marcia Fragner-Clark, AS '50, will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 9, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.

"Julie and Friends: Remembering Marcia" was organized by pianist Julie Nishimura, music, who was a personal friend of Ms. Fragner-Clark. The free concert will feature UD artists, Nishimura; Cynthia Carr, horn; Patrick Evans, baritone; and Michael Steinberg, piano.

Works by Chopin, Ms. Fragner-Clark's favorite composer, will be played by Nishimura and Steinberg, who will then join in playing Brahms' Hungarian Dances. Evans and Nishimura will present songs by Copeland, Rorem, Ives and Stephen Foster. Carr and Nishimura will play Edith Boroff's Sonata for Horn and Piano, and soprano Marie Robinson will join Evans and Nishimura in a performance of "Bess, You is My Woman," from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

Married to UD graduate Berwyn Fragner, Ms. Fragner-Clark earned her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and was a practicing licensed psychologist until her husband's death in 1989. She later married Harry Clark, a Dover high school classmate, in 1991. An active member of the UD's Academy of Lifelong Learning, she died this past May.

Nishimura said, "Marcia Fragner-Clark was a great friend of music as well as a wonderful friend to me.

Presenting this concert of music she would have loved was the most natural way I could think of to honor her memory."