'Messiah' performance to raise money for UWP music students
PLATTEVILLE - University of Wisconsin-Platteville choral director Greg Dennis will conduct a plethora of singers and instrumentalists who will perform the Easter and Resurrection portions of George Frideric Handel's "Messiah." The program will help to raise money for the UWP music scholarship program.
Members of UWP's Chamber Choir, University Singers and Concert Choir, in addition to the Platteville and Mount Horeb Chorales, will form a choir of over 200 voices. Professional vocal soloists will include UWP's Rebecca Demaree, Susan Savage-Day and Robert Demaree, in addition to Madison's Kathleen Otterson and Whitewater's Harry Johansen.
They will be accompanied by a 26-piece Baroque orchestra made up of professional string players from UWP faculty, including violinist Amber Dolphin, cellist Kevin Price and double bassist Brad Townsend, as well as instrumentalists David Cooper, Joe Caploe and Eugene Alcalay, who will be playing the trumpet, timpani and harpsichord respectively. According to Dennis, some of the university's finest student musicians will complete the orchestra.
The concert will take place in the Richard and Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall of the Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on March 12. The admission fee is $12 for adults, senior citizens and faculty, and $8 for children under 18 and UWP students with a valid ID.
For more information, contact Dennis at dennisg@uwplatt.edu or (608) 342-1392.
Written by: Alison Ross, UWP Office of Public Relations, (608) 342-1194, rossa@uwplatt.edu
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