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Thursday, May 17, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Knox College music students Mara Mindell and Eveie Dechard will present a voice recital at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 20, in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, on the KNox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The concert is free and open to the public.
Mindell will perform four songs by Robert Schumann and selections by Georges Bizet, Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern. Decherd will perform works by Gabriel Fauré, Chausson, and Mozart. Mindell, Decherd and Kristin Miserocchi will perform works by Léo Delibes and songs from "The Mikado," by Gilbert and Sullivan. Pinao accompanists are Amber Clark and Helen Scharber.
Mindell is a senior music major from Topeka, Kansas. She has been a member of the Knox College Choir and Chamber Singers for four years, this year serving as co-manager for the Madrigal Dinners. Her musical activities have included Sigma Alpha Iota (the women's music fraternity), as well as leading roles in various musicals. Next year she plans to continue her vocal studies with Knox music professor Laura Lane before pursuing a career in theatre.
Decherd is a junior music and theatre major from Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She has sung in the Knox College Choir for three years, and the Chamber Singers for two years. Next fall she will be studing in the Chicago Arts Program, an interdisciplinary academic program offered through Knox.
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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