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  • Musical Romance in the Air
    by Laurel Kay Dodgion
    Published - 09/19/12 - 09:20 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend | print
    Cellist Michael Wager performs Chopin during the Orchestra of Southern Utah Romantic Era Recital on Tuesday, September 25. Photo courtesy Orchestra of Southern Utah
    Cellist Michael Wager performs Chopin during the Orchestra of Southern Utah Romantic Era Recital on Tuesday, September 25. Photo courtesy Orchestra of Southern Utah
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    (Cedar City, UT) - The Orchestra of Southern Utah Fall Recital Series continues with music of the Romantic Era. This memorial evening is held Tuesday, September 25 at 7:30 pm in St. Jude’s Episcopal Church in Cedar City.

    Cellist Michael Wager performs Frederic Chopin’s memorial Cello Sonata in G minor. The SUU student also plays with OSU. He is accompanied by pianist Charity Whitaker.

    Chopin is represented again as pianists Tasha Seegmiller and Diane Decker play Rondo for Two Pianos. Both teach private piano lessons and Seegmiller also teaches English at Cedar High School. Pianist Sara Sun also performs Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu No.4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 (1834). She recently won the Cedar City Has Talent Competition in her age group at the Family Festival.

    The Southern Utah Quintet presents Quintet in A Major, Op 18, Allegro, ma non tanto by Antonin Dvorak. The Southern Utah Quintet is comprised of violinists Patty Walser and Suzanne Stewart, violist Sara Penny, cellist Leah Brown and pianist Teri Kenney. The string players also perform in the OSU and teach private music lessons.

    David Sun performs Etude Op. 27 No. 8 by Dmitri Kabalevsky. He is a student at East Elementary and studies piano with Irene Peery.

    The Orchestra of Southern Utah Fall Romantic Era Recital is held at the St. Jude’s Episcopal Church (70 North 200 West) in Cedar City. The recital begins at 7:30pm. There is a suggested $5 donation for adults and $3 for students. Children over the age of six are welcome at all the recitals with adult supervision. OSU requests that babies and children less than six years old not attend as recitals are recorded.

    The OSU Recital Series concludes on October 2 with this Finale.

    For more information on OSU recitals call Sara Penny at (435) 586-2286.

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