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Jan. 31: Faculty vocal ensemble presents Mozart

Cantiamo! from left to right: Brian Carter, Dean Luethi, Julie Anne Wieck, Sheila Converse and Lori Wiest.
Cantiamo! from left to right: Brian Carter, Dean Luethi, Julie Anne Wieck, Sheila Converse and Lori Wiest.

A new faculty vocal ensemble, Cantiamo!, will perform “Many Moods of Mozart” at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in Bryan Hall at WSU Pullman.

Five members of the School of Music faculty will perform several well-known sacred works, secular nocturnes, and earthy canons, as well as arias and scenes from Mozart operas.

The concert is part of the Faculty Artist Series; proceeds support the School of Music scholarship fund.

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Oct. 24: Final faculty series concert of fall presents ‘Art Songs of England’

Brian Carter
Brian Carter

“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.

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Life Is Short, Opera Is Long, but Wagner Is Forever

Brian Carter
Brian Carter
Brian Carter, professor of music, has sung Loge in Das Rheingold and Siegmund from the Act I Finale of Die Walküre. He talks about his experiences as a Wagnerian singer.

“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.”

A hip-hopesque kind of rhyme