“Art Songs of England” will feature Brian Carter, tenor, and Gerald Berthiaume, piano, performing music by Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi and Ralph Vaughan Williams, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in Bryan Hall.
It is the final fall concert in the Faculty Artist Series whose proceeds support the School of Music scholarship fund.
The performance is the first of the academic year in the WSU School of Music Faculty Artist Series. Proceeds benefit the school’s scholarship fund. To view the fall schedule, visit Faculty Artist Series.
“It’s only about twelve to fifteen minutes long,” Dr. Carter says, “but it’s a bombastic sing. It’s huge sounding and it’s got three arias, two of which are for the tenor, making it lots of fun.”
The class begins with the music of the 1920’s and continues through the introduction of MTV. Music instructor Brian Ward says sometimes students say it’s their favorite class; they get to listen to music they enjoy.
Both Pullman sections of the class are already full.
Thanks to a WSU grant, music professor and renowned oboist Keri McCarthy will travel to Burma later in July to deliver oboes to music students in Yangon, as part of a grassroots effort to build connections between the US and Burma. Oboes are virtually nonexistent in isolated Burma.
McCarthy plans to return to Burma in the spring to see how the oboes are being received, and will publish an article in a professional journal to encourage donations of oboes.
Read more about McCarthy’s instrumental outreach at WSU News