Refreshments will be served. Organ Recital Sunday On Sunday, February 23, at 4 p.m. in Siebert Chapel, a guest organ recital will be given by Hans-Ola Ericsson. Admission is free. While at Carthage, Ericsson will also be conducting a master class, that is, an informal recital of students after which Ericsson will critique and offer suggestions. The master class will take place Saturday, February 22, at 1 p.m. in Siebert Chapel.
Admission is also free, and the public is invited to attend.
Ericsson was born in Stockholm in 1958, and studied music there and in Freiburg and then later in the US and in Venice. He has given concerts throughout Europe as well as in Japan and in the US and Canada. He has made numerous recordings, including the complete organ works of Beethoven, and a highly acclaimed set of recordings of the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen, for which he was awarded the Swedish Gramophone Prize annually between 1985 and 1988. The following items appeared in the Student Activities Calendar for Friday, February 21, through Friday January 28. The first graduating class in Carthage, Illinois, in 1880, consisted of four people.