GROSSMONT COLLEGE (Press Release) — A new student club on the campus called the Vocal Recital Guild will host its inaugural concert at 4 p.m., on Sunday, Oct. 23, at the campus Recital Hall, Room #220, Building #26. Cost to attend is $5 per person. Tickets are available at the door. Martha Howe, an adjunct Music Department instructor, will present a class of performers.
The theme for the concert is “From Opera to Broadway.” Selections will include “Dido and Aeneas,” by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell in 1689; “Dank Sei Dir Herr” by Georg Friederich Händel (1684-1759); “Patterns” from Baby, a musical written by David Shire
that first ran on Broadway in 1983; and, “Someone’ Been Sending Me Flowers” by David Baker. Piano accompanist at the concert will be Sylvia Hartman.
Members of the Vocal Recital Guild include music voice major students enrolled in a performance studies class taught by Howe, who has been appearing in opera and theater productions since she was a student at Point Loma High School in San Diego (class of 1969). She is a versatile singing actress who has performed with numerous opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada and Austria. Howe left San Diego in 1980 to live and work in New York until 1994 and in San Francisco in 1997, and then in Europe, including Paris and Vienna, until 2007.
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