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Women of the Wind!


Friends, Readers, Casual Internet Passers-By,

I am delighted to announce my winter program: Women of the Wind!

It's an oboe and flute duo recital, featuring myself, Martha Councell-Vargas, and pianist Ketevan Badridze.  Martha and I have been talking for years about collaborating on a program, and working on this one with her has been an absolute joy!  You know that feeling when you’ve been friends with someone for a long time but never really worked together professionally, and then you get together and read a duet and it’s like you are two halves of the same person and everything is easy because you really feel the music the same way and have the same goals and also are beautifully in tune?  It’s like that!

Join us to explore gorgeous, tempestuous, intelligent, beautiful music by 20th and 21st Century female composers.   From the Coronation of Princess Isabelle to the chuckwalla lizard of the Mojave desert, these works are sure to transport you.  You don't know them - yet - but you'll leave humming them just like we do.

The details:

Sunday, February 24, 2013, 3:00 pm CST
Valparaiso University
Duesenberg Hall

Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 7:30 pm EST
Western Michigan University
Dalton Center Recital Hall

Saturday, March 2, 2013, 3:00 pm EST
Notre Dame University
Snite Museum: Annenberg Hall

All of these events are free and open to the public.  Please join us!






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