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FSU Student Evie Shanholtz Will Perform Senior Viola RecitalFrostburg State University’s Department of Music will present student Evie Shanholtz in her senior viola recital, “¡VOILÀ!” on Sunday, April 28, at 3 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. She will be accompanied by pianist Dr. Joseph Yungen and guest artist Peter Lewis on bass, as well as Chassady Redhead and Leah Boggs on violin. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; click the “Join Stream” button on this page a few minutes before the recital is scheduled to begin, or any time during the recital, to view the live performance.The program will include “Passacaglia for String Trio in D Major” by Dr. Scott Rieker; “Arioso” by Johann Sebastian Bach; “Humoresque” by Antonín Dvořák; “O Salutaris Hostia” by Edward Elgar, arranged by Shanholtz; the four movements, “Largo,” “Allegro,” “Andante” and “Presto,” of “Viola Concerto in G Major” by Georg Philipp Telemann; and the third movement, “Rondo, Allegro,” of “Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At FSU, Shanholtz studies under Dr. Talya Schenk. She anticipates graduating in May 2024 with a bachelor’s in music education. Shanholtz is a member of Delta Zeta, the National Association for Music Education and the Fraternity and Sorority Life Council. She has been on the Dean’s List and is the recipient of an FSU Honors Scholarship. She has also been a choral assistant. Shanholtz plans to teach music in a secondary school and eventually become an administrator. She attended South Hagerstown High School.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.

Mountain City Traditional Arts to Host Famed Irish Singer Rory MakemFrostburg State University’s Mountain City Traditional Arts will host famed Irish singer Rory Makem on Sunday, April 28, at 4 p.m. at 25 E. Main St. in Frostburg. The concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required, though donations are greatly appreciated.A seasoned performer with more than 35 years on the road, Rory has toured extensively with The Makem Brothers and The Makem and Spain Brothers and for 17 years played guitar with his father, Tommy Makem. He has played sold-out venues, festivals and theaters throughout the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland and Ireland, captivating his audiences with charisma, passion for the songs, poetry, history, humor and skilled musicianship.The love of song runs deep in the family. Continuing a legacy handed down from his grandmother, the legendary source singer Sarah Makem, Rory pulls the songs of the worker, the sailor, the lovers, the fighters and the land from the pages of history and breathes life into them. An adept interpreter of folk songs, he masterfully accompanies himself on guitar, banjo, mandolin and bouzouki.Not limiting himself to the stage, Rory has played on movie soundtracks, including “A Fool and His Money” and “The Lightkeeper.” His compositions can be heard as the backdrop for PBS series as diverse as “Tommy Tang’s Modern Thai Cuisine,” “It’s an Age Thing” and “Simply Painting.”He has also recorded with some luminaries of modern folk music, including Tom Paxton, Noel Paul Stookey, Bill Staines, Eric Weissberg, Roger McGuinn, Dave Mallett, Gordon Bok, Jonathan Edwards, Rick and Ron Shaw, and Schooner Fare.MCTA is a program of FSU and a founding member of Maryland’s Folklife Network. It receives support from the Maryland Traditions Program of the State Arts Council.For more information, call 301-687-8040.

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FSU’s Department of Music Presents Brass Ensemble in ConcertFrostburg State University’s Department of Music will present its Brass Ensemble, conducted by Joshua Bishop, in concert on Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public. The concert will also be livestreamed; click the “Join Stream” button on this page a few minutes before the recital is scheduled to begin, or any time during the recital, to view the live performance.Brass Ensemble personnel are MJ Harden, Joey Orr, Morgan Tichnell and Zoe Welsch on trumpets; Leah Boggs, Daniel Coughenour and Travis Walker on horns; Alex Frye on euphonium; and Zach Inglish and Jack McCoy on trombones.The program will include “Earl of Oxford’s March” by William Byrd, “Napoli” by Herman Bellstedt, “Os Justi” by Anton Bruckner, “It Is Well With My Soul” by Philip Bliss and “Legends of the Pacific” by Frank Gulino.Byrd’s “Earl of Oxford’s March” (c. 1600) is noted for the sound of field trumpets calling to each other. The composition showcases the vibrant and majestic brass instruments imitating a military march. The melodic lines and fanfare-like motifs create a grand and triumphant atmosphere.“Napoli” is perhaps the most famous solo by Sousa arranger and cornet virtuoso Bellstedt, conceived as a theme and variations on a wildly popular 19th-century song. The music is full of character, containing a stately opening theme, several excellent variations and a fiery romantic finale.“Os justi” (“The Mouth of the Righteous”) is a sacred motet composed by Bruckner in 1879. “Os Justi” is a Gregorian chant used as gradual of the “Commune Doctorum” and as introit I and gradual II of the “Commune Confessoris non Pontificis.”“It Is Well With My Soul,” aka “When Peace, Like A River,” is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Bliss. First published in “Gospel Hymns No. 2” in 1876, it is possibly the most influential and enduring in the Bliss repertoire and is often taken as a choral model, appearing in hymnals of a wide variety of Christian fellowships.American composer Gulino is among the most in-demand writers of chamber music and recital literature for brass instruments. He composed “Legends of the Pacific” for brass quintet or septet in 2013. It is in two parts – “In the Shadows of Mt. Shasta” and “Between the Redwoods.”For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.

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