Wednesday, October 29, 2008

UWP departments collaborate for concert

PLATTEVILLE - Sopranos Rebekah Demaree and Susan Savage Day with pianist Sharon Jensen, faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Performing and Visual Arts Department, will be performing a Kassia: Women in Song concert on Nov. 5. The concert will be in collaboration with the UWP Humanities Department.

The Kassia performance is entitled "An Evening with Emily Dickinson" and will focus on the works of the poet in song from from a variety of composers including Lori Laitman, Richard Pearson Thomas, Jake Heggie, William Hawley, Ned Rolem, John Duke, Ernst Bacon, William Volcom and William Roy.

The UWP Humanities Department will be collaborating with the UWP Performing and Visual Arts Department by providing the expertise of faculty members Martha Drummond and Debora Lewis. They will be presenting material on Dickinson throughout the concert.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall in the Center for the Arts on the UWP campus. It is free and everyone is welcome to attend. This performance has been made possible through the support of the Mary and Isabel Cunningham Fund and the Margaret Keizer Fund. For more information on this or other Kassia events, contact Demaree at (608) 342-1041 or demareer@uwplatt.edu.

Written by: Anne Killian, UWP Public Relations, (608) 342-1194, killiana@uwplatt.edu