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Trombone faculty member Per Brevig (DIP '67, PGD '67, BM '68, DMA '71, trombone) recently signed an agreement to extend his music directorship of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra for another four years.Organ faculty member Paul Jacobs will give a concert of works by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, and Reger on October 6 at the Church of the Holy Apostles in New York.Michael Kahn, the director of the Drama Division, will remount his production of Tennessee Williams one-act plays at Manhattan Theater Club this month featuring Cameron Folmar (Group 28) and Robbie Sella (Group 21).Drama faculty member John Stix directed the premiere of Brian Quirk's one-man play Mapplethorpe: The Opening at the new Provincetown (Mass.) Theater. Lance Horne (BM '00, MM '02, composition) composed the soundscape for the production.Orchestration faculty member Christopher Theofanidis will join the California Symphony for a performance of his Masterprize-winning composition Rainbow Body on October 24 and 26. Also at the concert, pianist Kirill Gerstein will perform Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the orchestra will play Sibelius's Symphony No. 1.Graduate studies faculty member Kent Tritle (BM '85, MM '88, organ; MM '88, choral conducting) performed French organ works at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York in September.
Sandy Cameron, a Pre-College student, will be the soloist for Sibelius's Violin Concerto on October 26 with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at Alice Tully Hall. This concert is a benefit for the Juilliard Pre-College Parents Association Scholarship Fund. Charles Osgood will host the evening. (See a related article on Page 18.)J.O.C. student Matthew Garrett is to perform a recital at Merkin Concert Hall on October 12. The program will feature works by Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Poulenc, and Ives.
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