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‘Music from the World of Children’ concert set Dec. 1

8:37 a.m., Dec. 1, 2003--The University Orchestra presents “Music from the World of Children,” featuring UD faculty artists soprano Marie Robinson and baritone Patrick Evans, at 8 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.

Directed by Brian Stone, the program includes Mahler’s “Songs from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn,’” featuring Robinson and Evans as soloists. Also on the program are Humperdinck’s “Prelude to Hansel and Gretel,” Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” and Tchaikovsky’s “Suite from “The Sleeping Beauty.’”

Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and $3 for students. Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at the Trabant or Bob Carpenter box offices on the UD campus.

Marie Hadley Robinson, associate professor of voice and opera, made her operatic debut as Aida with the Graz Opera Theatre, where she was principal soloist for three years. Subsequent engagements took her to Mannheim Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague, Zurich, a tour of Japan, the Ravina Festival and Mexico, Hong Kong, Marseille and Lyon. Her repertoire includes 33 major roles and she appeared with 42 companies in Eastern and Western Europe as well as the United States, Canada and South America.

Baritone Patrick Evans, associate professor of music at UD, has been a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Cleveland Art Song Festival and has toured Japan in recital and orchestral performances with the Pacific Music Festival, founded by Leonard Bernstein. He has sung the role of Adam in Haydn's “Creation” under the baton of Robert Shaw and maintains a studio in New York City, teaching music theatre professionals. He is also minister of music at Hanover Street Presbyterian Church in Wilmington.

Orchestra director Brian Stone, a visiting assistant professor of music at UD, is the associate conductor of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra at Johns Hopkins University, where he also is director of their chamber music program. For two years, he was the assistant conductor of the Peabody Symphony and is now the studio assistant to the conducting program. He also has undertaken additional studies in conducting at Le Domaine Forget with Otto-Werner Mueller and two summers at the Festival at Sandpoint with Gunther Schuller.

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