Admission is free and open to the public.
Elwood Price, a major African American composer, worked in the tradition of concert and chamber music. Her lecture will include samples of Price's music and will explore its roots in African musical concepts of rhythm. Jacqueline Pickett is the first person to earn a Doctor of Music in doublebass at the University of Wisconsin. She earned her Masters of Music at Yale University and Bachelor of Music at the University of West Virginia. In the fall of 1997, she was part of the People to People Program delegation which exchanged ideas about music education with citizens of The People's Republic of China.