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Faculty and Guest Recital Oct. 30 at WIU

October 25, 2021

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MACOMB, IL - The Western Illinois University School of Music will present a Faculty and Guest Recital featuring Duo Red Vespa at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30 in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall.

The program, titled "In a Woman's Voice: Musical Readings by Women Composers," will feature Duo Red Vespa, reciter Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa Marian Wilson Kimber, and pianist Natalie Landowski, instructor of piano at WIU.

This performance is open free for limited general audience seating. Guests are required to wear a mask at all times, in the Recital Hall and lobby.

PROGRAM:

"In a Woman's Voice: Musical Readings by Women Composers"

Kimber, reciter
Landowski, piano

Introduction - Kimber

Dame Fashion (1924) - Frieda Peycke (1884–1964)
Apples (1921) - Phyllis Fergus (1887–1964)
If Only We Could (1943) - Frieda Peycke

A Summer Idyll (1925) - Phyllis Fergus
I Doubt It (1923) - Lalla Ryckoff (b. 1891)
Wishful Waiting (c. 1947) - Frieda Peycke

Ain't It Fine Today (1920) - Phyllis Fergus
Lie Awake Song (1922) - Phyllis Fergus
Lost Illusions (1932) - Frieda Peycke

INTERMISSION

Upon a Broken World (2019–2020) - Lisa Neher (b. 1985)
- September, 1918 - (Amy Lowell)
- Good Bones - (Maggie Smith)
- Small Kindnesses - (Danusha Laméris)

Two Uses for a Fan
- Excerpt from The Red Fan (1893) - Nettie Arthur Brown (1864–1914)
- A Lesson with the Fan (1898) - Guy d'Hardelot (1858–1936)

The Canoe (1916) - Phyllis Fergus
Husbands (1942) - Frieda Peycke
The Usual Way (1914) - Phyllis Fergus

Performances in the COFAC Recital Hall are now open for limited general audience seating, with the following guidelines:

· Audience members and participants are encouraged to be vaccinated

· Off-campus visitors are encouraged to complete the WIU self-check before arriving to campus at wiu.edu/selfcheck

· Face coverings must be worn by all audience members, at all times

· Ushers will collect information from attendees (name, phone and email) to assist with contact tracing, if necessary

· Audience members will be expected to maintain proper social distancing from others not in his/her group

For more information, call the COFAC Recital Hall office at (309) 298-1843 or visit wiu.edu/recitalhall.

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