The opening reception will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28. Recital to feature to premiers On Friday, Jan. 26, soprano Leanne Freeman-Miller, assistant professor of voice, will perform a recital celebrating 20th century music with works by Copland, Vaughan Williams and Lekburg, as well as two premiered works by Drake student Christopher Krampe and William Dougherty, chair of the music department. Krampe, a sophomore from Baxter, Iowa, who is majoring in church music, has written a song cycle composition for voice and piano based on song texts by Stephen Crane. Professor Dougherty's pieces are for flute and voice and are based on poetry written by the late Patricia Shinehouse, who was associate professor of flute at Drake before her death last July. The recital will start at 8 p.m. on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main.
Admission is free.
On Saturday, Jan. 27, Sean Flanigan, trombone, will give his debut recital at Drake. The newest brass faculty member will be assisted by Gisela Mendez-Flanigan, piano. The program will include music by Albrechtsberger Tomasi, Massenet and others. The recital will start at 3 p.m. on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Admission is free.