On Saturday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m., members of Alpha Psi Omega, the drama honor society, will host a masquerade in Alden Memorial. The evening will feature a murder mystery, free food, dancing, and prizes for best costume and for solving the mystery. The WPI Orchestra, under the direction of Douglas Weeks, administrator of applied music, will premiere Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, in Alden Memorial's Spaulding Recital Hall. David Tasgal, a composer and music teacher, completed the work on commission from the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association, which is meeting at WPI on Saturday. Members of the WPI community are invited to attend the performance.
Admission is free.
Tasgal earned an M.M. in music education from the University of Massachusetts. His compositions, usually for student string and orchestra, reflect his eclectic background he has played violin, cello and bass in orchestras, synthesizer in rock bands, and clarinet in his high school and college bands. The work could also be described as an adventure story with a happy ending, which seeks to amuse through very sudden changes from one style to another, and the frequent simultaneous juxtaposition of contrasting styles. Ballads of the Sephardim WPI and the Student Fine Arts Committee will present a voice and guitar performance of Sephardic ballads by Dr. Ram n Tasat from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, in Alden Memorial. Members of the Worcester and WPI communities are invited to bring in nonperishable canned foods which the chapter will contribute to the Worcester County Food Bank.