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Messiah College to present student recitals in January

GRANTHAM, Pa. (Dec. 23, 2004) – Messiah College will present five student recitals in January. The recitals will be held in Poorman Recital Hall, located in Climenhaga Fine Arts Center on the college’s Grantham campus.

• Senior, music education student Rebecca Thomas, of Manchester, will perform a piano recital at 4 p.m. on Jan. 15. Recital selections include, “Sonata in D minor” by Domenici Scarlatti and “Estampes” by Claude Debussy as well as a two-piano piece performed by Thomas and Richard Roberson, dean of the School of the Arts, and a trio composed for piano, violin and cello, performed by Thomas, Johanna Hartman and Jonathan Desmarais.
• Senior, music education students Joel Ross, of Waynesboro, Va., and Heidi Zimmerman, of Lebanon, will perform a voice recital at 8 p.m. on Jan. 15. Ross, a tenor, will sing art songs by Robert Ives and Samuel Barbar as well as a song from “Pirates of Penzance.” Zimmerman, a soprano, will sing art songs by Bach and Schumann as well as a song from “The Music Man.”
• Senior, music education student Sheila Allebach, of Souderton, will perform a piano recital at 3 p.m. on Jan. 16. Allebach will play pieces by Ravel and Rachmaninoff as well as a Mozart piano duet, “Overture to L’Impresario,” with her sister, Amber Allebach.
• Senior, music education student Benjamin Hayes, of Pottstown, will perform a euphonium recital at 6 p.m. on Jan. 16.
• Senior, music education students Amy Hock, of Lancaster, and Fawn Upright, of Montoursville, will perform a joint student recital on trumpet and harp at 4 p.m. on Jan. 22. Hock will perform on trumpet the “Suite in D” by G.F. Handel, “Concerto in F minor” by Oskar Boehme and “Trio” by Beethoven. Upright will perform on harp “Concerto in B Flat” by Handel, “Nocturne” by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka and “Morning Serenade” from Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
• Senior, music education student Carrie Blosser, of Etters, will perform a trumpet recital at 8 p.m. on Jan. 22.

The recitals are free and open to the public. For more information, call the music department at (717) 766 -2511, ext. 3310.

Messiah College , a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 50 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.

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ARTICLE DATE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 , 2004
ARTICLE NUMBER: MC-001-05