Dec. 15, 2005
Contact: Michele Abba
Cal Poly Music Department
(805) 756-2406
http://music.calpoly.edu
Cal Poly Professor, Pianist W. Terrence Spiller to Give Benefit Concert Jan. 7
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Pianist W. Terrence Spiller, chair of Cal Poly’s Music Department, will give a benefit recital of works by Clementi, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Prokofieff at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, in the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly.
Spiller will open the program with Clementi’s Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 5, followed by Mozart’s Twelve Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman,” two of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words,” and “Rondo Capriccioso” in E Major, Op. 14.
Following intermission, Spiller will perform Liszt’s “Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude” from “Harmonies poetique et religieuse,” and Prokofieff’s Sonata No. 7, Op. 83.
Tickets to the recital are $6 for students and senior citizens and $10 for the public. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787).
Patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket Office will receive a 10 percent discount; those who buy tickets to five or more are given a 15 percent discount.
Proceeds from the recital will benefit the Cal Poly Music Department Scholarship Fund. The recital is sponsored by the Music Department and College of Liberal Arts. For more information, call 756-2406.
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