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updated March 11, 2010
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Students, Faculty & Staff to Showcase Musical Talents in Community Concert
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students are known throughout the
world for their unique problem-solving skills. However, they also have
talents as musicians, singers and even jugglers –- abilities that will
be showcased on Saturday in the college’s annual Community Concert.
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Rose-Hulman Community Concert
Saturday, March 13
7:30 p.m.
Hatfield Hall Theater
Tickets: Free for all guests. Seating will be on a first-come,
first-served basis with doors opening at 7 p.m.
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The show, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in
the Hatfield Hall Theater. There are no advanced tickets distributed;
seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, with doors opening at 7
p.m.
The musical program will feature such classics as Johannes Brahms’
“Hungarian Dance” (movement No. 1 and No. 5), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s
“Flute Quartet No. 3 in C” and Franz Liszt’s arrangement of Robert
Schumann’s “Dedication.” Then, there will be the more contemporary “For
no One” and “All my Loving” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Albert Brumley’s “I’ll Fly Away” and “Faded Love” by Bob Wills, John Wills and
Billy Jack Wills.
Community Concert veterans Greg Neumann, a senior chemical engineering
major, and Marc Pardee, junior electrical engineering major, will
perform the two Lennon and McCartney songs on bass, piano and guitar.
The violin and fiddling skills of senior mechanical engineering major
Rachelle Cobb and junior electrical engineering major Homa Hariri will
be displayed in several performances during the concert. Cobb and Hariri
will combine their skills in the traditional arrangement of “Irish
Washwerwoman,” Sandra Dackow’s arrangement of “Molly on the Shore” and
Brian Wickland’s “Walleye Blues.” Hariri will be a featured soloist in
the “Hungarian Dance” movements, with senior electrical engineering
major Clancy Soehren providing piano accompaniment. Then, Cobb will join
senior biomedical engineering major David Hormuth on bass, senior
computer science major Logan Price on banjo, junior computer engineering
major Scott Skiles on guitar and faculty members Keith Hoover (guitar),
Steve Letsinger (mandolin) and David Voltmer (bass) in performing Kerry
Mills’ “Red Wing” along with “I’ll Fly Away” and “Faded Love.”
Edward Mayhew, senior mechanical engineering major, and Stephen Mayhew,
sophomore computer science major, will combine with their father, James,
an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and sister, Elizabeth,
in a family quartet featuring flute, violin and cello in Mozart’s flute
quartet.
Another musical family will feature Heidi Yoder on organ and piano
joining Kirstin Yoder on piano in performing Daniel Towner’s “Grace
Greater than our,” “Sins” and “Malaguena” by Ernesto Lecuona. Both
performers are the daughters of Mark Yoder, professor of electrical
engineering and computer engineering.
The concert will also feature singer Kayla Greene, freshman physics
major, and guitarist Kimberly Handoko, a freshman mechanical engineering
major, in performing Sara Bareilles’ “Gravity”; Jeremy Goodsitt, senior
mechanical engineering major, showcasing his juggling skills with
Diaboloing, the art of the chinese yo-yo; and graduate student Keqiong
Xin and sophomore chemical engineering major Yile Gu presenting
calligraphy and a piano solo to Wang Jianzhong’s “Golden Thread
Embroidery” and “Butterfly Lovers” by Cheng Gang and He Zhan.
Pianist Tanya Letfullin will perform Liszt’s arrangement of Schumann’s
“Dedication” while Richard Bernier of the Logan Library staff will play
a freestyle timbale/percussion jam.
The concert will also include performances by Rose-Hulman chorus,
concert band and string ensemble. The chorus, directed by David Gibbs,
will open the concert with Randall Stroope’s arrangement of Gustav
Holst’s “Homeland”, Sara Teasdale and Stroope’s “I am Not Yours” and
Nancy Hill Cobb’s “Clap Your Hands.” The concert band will play several
movements of Holst’s “First Suite in E-flat for Military Band” and
Vaclav Nelhybel’s “Festivo,” while the string ensemble will close the
night with Karl Jenkins’ “Palladio,” Edward Elgar’s “Nimrod” (from the
Enigma Variations) and Fritz Kreisler’s “Praeludium,” featuring violin
soloist Stephen Mayhew. The band and ensemble are directed by Gary
Turner.
The Community Concert was organized by Bradley Burchett, associate
professor of mechanical engineering. Bryan Taylor, executive director of
communications and marketing, will be the master of ceremonies.
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