William Meyers – News /news Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:58:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 /wp-content/themes/b/bates-framework/styles/images/bates-favicon.png William Meyers – News /news 32 32 A.V.C.O. to perform spring concert /news/1997/04/18/avco-concert/ /news/1997/04/18/avco-concert/#respond Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:05:33 +0000 http://home.bates.edu/?p=32785 Winter’s passing will be noted with a hat off to spring when the Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra (AVCO) performs its next concert at 8 p.m. May 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

The performance, to be conducted by William Meyers, is open to the public. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased by calling 783-4422 during daytime hours.

Included in the program are “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” by Frederick Delius, and “The Winter’s Past,” for oboe and string orchestra, by Wayne Barlow. Oboist Dorothy Rupert will perform the solo.

The orchestra also will perform three pieces for flute and orchestra by Benjamin Godard, with Jeffery Pelletier as soloist.

Deborah Perkins will perform two solo arias, “Pie Jesu” by Gabriel Fauré and a second from the “St. Matthew Passion” by Bach. A fourth soloist, cellist Kurt Kaufman, will play “Allegro Appassionato” by Camille Saint-Saens.

The orchestra concludes its program with the “Russian and Ludmilla Overture” by Michael Glinka.

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ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to hold spring noonday concerts /news/1997/04/09/spring-noondays/ /news/1997/04/09/spring-noondays/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 1997 18:55:05 +0000 http://home.bates.edu/?p=32718 The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Noonday Concert Series continues with five concerts scheduled for the months of April and May. The free concerts, open to the public, will be held from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Tuesdays, at the college’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

On April 22, guitarist Bill Shimamura will perform original compositions. On May 6, cellist William Meyers will perform. On May 13, pianist Colin Britt, a student of Brian Franck and sixth-grader at Pettingill School, will perform Beethoven sonatas and original compositions.

Performers for concerts on April 29 and May 20 will be announced at a later date.

For more information, call the Olin Arts Center at 786-6135.

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