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Dr. Joel Speerstra, a senior researcher at the Göteborg Organ Art Center in Sweden (GOart), will present a pedal clavichord concert Saturday, Oct. 8, at 5 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
"Clavichords were the most common keyboard instrument in homes from the Renaissance until the 19th century," said Dr. Elizabeth Harrison, assistant professor of music and ¾¨Ó㴫ý organist. "The program will focus on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, as Bach may have played them on the pedal clavichord.
"The instrument that Speerstra will use is borrowed from a private instrument collection in the area, and was built by Speerstra at the GOart," Harrison said. "It's modeled after the only surviving 18th century clavichord with two manuals and pedals, known as the Gerstenberg clavichord, which is currently housed in the instrument museum in Leipzig, Germany."
While at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, Speerstra will also teach a master class for ¾¨Ó㴫ý students.
Speerstra is active as an instrument builder, performer, musicologist, lecture-recitalist, editor, author, and educator. After graduating from Oberlin Conservatory, he received both a Watson Scholar and a DAAD Fellow, allowing him to study organ and clavichord with Harald Vogel at the North German Organ Academy, and instrument building with John Barnes, the former Curator of the Edinburgh Russell Collection of Keyboard Instruments. His doctoral project at Göteborg University led to the re-construction of the pedal clavichord used in this performance. Speerstra is a faculty member of the Göteborg International Organ Academy, the Leufsta bruk Organ Academy, the Smarano International Organ Academy, and has taught at the School of Music in Göteborg and the Eastman School of Music. He is the author of numerous articles and the editor of the North German Organ Research Project in Göteborg, and has given lecture-recitals for the British, German, and Boston Clavichord Societies, as well as the International Clavichord Symposia in Magnano, Italy.
The concert is free and open to the public. Contact Harrison at (724) 946-7024) or e-mail harrisea@westminster.edu for more information.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Orchestra will present a spring concert Sunday, May 7, at 3 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
Under the direction of Jonathan Moser, the orchestra will perform Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68, "The Pastoral." The orchestra program features concerto/aria competition winners: Lindsey Byers, a junior music education major from Clarence, N.Y., singing in Verdi's "Stride la vampa!" from Il Trovatore; and Kimberly Hasara, a freshman music performance major from Pittsburgh, singing in Mozart's "Una donna quindice anni" from Cosi Fan Tutti.
The event is free and open to the public. Contact the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Department of Music at (724) 946-7270 for more information.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Men's Choir and Women's Choir will perform Monday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Mortar Board is sponsoring a book drive for the "Reading is Leading" project through Nov. 1. Two collection boxes, outside of the Preschool Lab in Hoyt Science Resources Center and in the Chapel Office on the third floor of Old Main, are available on campus.
History and math were brought to life for 18 Musser Elementary third-graders during a recent visit to ¾¨Ó㴫ý.
Student teacher Jennifer Wood, a senior elementary education major from East Liverpool, Ohio, took her class to visit ¾¨Ó㴫ý to take part in a special project designed by junior elementary majors to integrate social studies and mathematics. In this project the ¾¨Ó㴫ý juniors dressed up as a famous person in history, gave Musser students some facts about their character, and then worked on mathematical problems using those facts.
Dr. Timothy Cuff, ¾¨Ó㴫ý assistant professor of history, had his article, "Anthropometric History: What is It and What Can It Tell Us About Antebellum Pennsylvania," published in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies.
Every ¾¨Ó㴫ý molecular biology major from the Class of 2007 will be attending graduate or medical schools in the fall. In recent years, ¾¨Ó㴫ý graduates have been accepted into medical schools at double the national average.
Dr. James Perkins, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of English, is co-editor of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Vol. 4: New Beginnings and New Directions, 1953-1968 to be published in May by Louisiana State University Press.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Women's Chorus hosted choral composer and arranger Paul Carey for a workshop Oct. 28.
Bradley Weaver, ¾¨Ó㴫ý instructor of broadcast communications, made presentations on two panels at the Broadcast Education Association convention in Las Vegas.
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