For more information, contact the Glenna Gaunt, 620-792-9289.

May 2, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Story by: Linda Jerke

Students to Present Spring Recital at Barton County Community College

Barton County Community College will present its final student recital of the spring semester at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in Dorothy Moses Morrison Chapel, located in the college’s Fine Arts Building, F-157. Admission is free.

A variety of students will be performing in the recital with an assortment of instruments and literature. A piano and string quartet composed of Robert Feldt, violin, Eleanor Ramsey, viola, Robert Marqueling, cello, and Steven Lueth, piano, will perform a Mozart piano quartet.

Two former Barton music students, Nathan Brown and JoAnn Gaunt, who are music majors at Fort Hays State University, will return to perform a trombone solo, “Konzert fur Pasaune und Blasorchester” by Rimsky-Korsakov, and a saxophone solo, “Saxophone Sonata” by Eccles. Jennifer Pfortmiller, St. John, will perform Bach’s “Organ Concerto No. 2” and Malia Jamison, Hoisington, will present Erik Satie’s “Gymnopedie No. 1” for piano.

Vocal selections include two opera arias, “O Mio Babbino Caro” from Gianni Schicchi by Puccini, performed by Michelle Snyder of Great Bend, and “Batti, Batti” from “Don Giovanni” by Mozart, performed by Malia Jamison.

Other Barton voice students performing include Tanner Ledford of Ellinwood and Rachel Harder of Claflin. Additional Barton instrumental performers are  Joseph Doze, Hoisington, trumpet, and Eric Degenhardt, Great Bend, trombone. Other piano performers include Tanner Ledford and Kayla Simmons, Great Bend.

Barton instructors whose students are performing in this concert include Steven Lueth, instrumental music instructor; Karole Erikson, keyboard instructor; and Glenna Gaunt, voice instructor.