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Halloween Concerts at Peabody, Oct. 26 and 31
Press Contact Only: Richard Selden |
 Young People’s String ProgramPhoto: Will Kirk |
 Kevin Wetzel, baritone |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 20, 2008, Baltimore, MD: Music for dancing around the cauldron will be featured at two Peabody Institute Halloween concerts, both B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Broomstick). Witch will you attend?
On Sunday, Oct. 26, at 2:00 pm, the Young People’s String Program of the Peabody Preparatory presents its annual Halloween Concert, a free event performed in costume. The varied program of fourteen short works includes Katherine and Hugh Colledge’s Hallowe’en, the folk song Devil’s Dream, and Niccolo Paganini’s Witches’ Dance. Coordinated by Janet Melnicoff-Brown, the Young People’s String Program is a creative blend of Suzuki philosophy and traditional string pedagogy for ages 5 and above.
On Friday, Oct. 31, at 8:00 pm, Music Director Hajime Teri Murai leads the Peabody Concert Orchestra in a program of Russian works. The evening begins with Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain (arranged by Rimsky-Korsakov), best known from the scene in Disney’s Fantasia in which the spirits of the dead are summoned on Halloween night. With the sound of church bells, the spirits flee. Then baritone Kevin Wetzel, a Peabody Conservatory graduate who won the Sylvia L. Green Voice Competition, joins the PCO to sing Mussorgsky’ Songs and Dances of Death. This work deals with the triumphs of death over four different individuals: a young child, an invalid woman, a drunken peasant, and a military commander. Moving from death to love, the concert closes with a suite of orchestral selections from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet. Tickets for the Oct. 31 concert are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 for students with ID.
Both Halloween concerts take place in Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, 17 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore. To hear Audio Program Notes for the Peabody Concert Orchestra concert on Oct. 31, visit www.peabody.jhu.edu/events and click on the headphones icons on the concert page. To purchase tickets for that concert, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-659-8100, ext. 2.
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About the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Located in the heart of Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Cultural District, the Peabody Institute was founded in 1857 as America’s first academy of music by philanthropist George Peabody. Today, Peabody boasts a preeminent faculty, a nurturing, collaborative learning environment, and the academic resources of one of the nation’s leading universities, Johns Hopkins. Through its degree granting Conservatory and its community-based Preparatory music and dance school, Peabody trains musicians and dancers of every age and at every level, from small children to seasoned professionals, from dedicated amateurs to winners of international competitions. Each year, Peabody stages nearly 100 major concerts and performances, ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz, many of them free — a testament to the vision of George Peabody.
