The work, The New Marruu, will be premiered by Cantoria at the first of two festival concerts at 8 p.m., Nov. 2, in Baldwin Auditorium. The concert will also include performances by Truman s Wind Sym-phony, Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Spraggins will perform an original piano work at this concert, and several Truman musicians will also participate. Four Truman composers who will also have original works performed at the festival concerts include Michael Bump, Robert Martin, Pavel Wlosok and Warren Gooch. The public is invited to attend both concerts.
Admission is free.
During the festival, Spraggins will also rehearse with Cantoria, talk to music classes and meet with student composers to critique their work. He will also speak briefly at both concerts. BACK TO THE TOP Education Division to Host Speaker William Stokes, professor of education at Lesley College, Cambridge, Mass., will visit Truman, Oct. 27, and speak on the role of teacher preparation within the context of the liberal arts and sciences. Stokes will deliver a presentation directed at students entitled Pedagogies of Possibility, which will focus on the work of Paulo Friere and the critical pedagogy movement. This talk will be held at 10 a.m. in Violette Hall 2351.