Highlighting the many roles of women across the globe, the unique Goshen College Women's World Music Choir will perform at 1 p.m. on Feb. 14 in Sauder Concert Hall as part of the college's monthly Afternoon Sabbatical Series. The program is free and open to the public.
Goshen College Assistant Professors Susan Dengler, soprano, and Lee Dengler, baritone, will perform a recital of solos and duets on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall of the Goshen College Music Center. The couple has appeared both individually and together in operas, oratorios and recitals since they met as undergraduates at West Chester (Pa.) University. Lee and Susan are ministers of music and arts at College Mennonite Church, on the campus of Goshen College in addition to service on the college's music department faculty.
The year 2006 marks the 250th year since the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most celebrated composers in history. Members of the Goshen College Music Department faculty will celebrate the anniversary by performing an all-Mozart chamber music program on Jan. 29 at 4 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall.
Two new CDs featuring Goshen College's new Opus 41 pipe organ, played by alumnus and Goshen native Bradley Lehman, are now available at the college's Music Center.
There's fun for the whole family at the next concert sponsored by the Community School of the Arts, because entire families will be performing.
Beginning Jan. 28, Goshen College's Community School of the Arts will offer a new music and sign language program called Sign & Sing for parents and their children ages six months to three years. This research-proven program is based on methods shown to speed language development in hearing children, ease frustration and enhance long-term learning abilities.
Flutist Rebecca Hovan and pianist Christine Larson Seitz, assistant professor of music at Goshen College, will perform music from around the world in their recital as part of the 2005-06 Goshen College Faculty Recital Series on Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall.
A musical tradition in the tri-state area for 61 years, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus will fill the stage of Sauder Concert Hall in Goshen College's Music Center to perform works of Mozart at 3 p.m. on Jan. 22 as part of the college's Performing Arts Series.
Patricia J. Schrock, a native of Millersburg, Ind., and 1990 Goshen College graduate, has been active in church music for more than 20 years. Since 1996, she has served as the associate director of music at Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C. On Saturday, Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m., she will present an organ recital in Rieth Recital Hall, located in Goshen College
Krysta Hawkley, a 2003 graduate of the Goshen College music program, will return to campus on Jan. 13 to perform a piano recital at the Community School of the Arts at 7:30 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall. Hawkley's recital program includes pieces by J.S. Bach, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt and Igor Stravinsky. The concert is free and open to the public.
