Tarleton State University vocal professor Dr. Iwao Asakura will give a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17, in the
Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Theater.
Dr. J. Bradley Baker, assistant professor of collaborative piano, will accompany Dr. Asakura. Soprano Dr. Heather Hawk, associate professor of voice, will join Dr. Asakura, a baritone, for a duet of Rossini’s
Barbiere di Siviglia.
Several works - by Mozart,
Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, an aria from
Cosi fan tutte; Schubert,
Heidenroslein and
Erlkonig; Verdi,
Per me giunto, an aria from
Don Carlo; Handel,
Why do the nations from his oratorio
Messiah; and Brahms,
Vier ernste Gesange (Four Serious Songs), based on Ecclesiastes and the First Epistle to the Corinthians - also will be featured.
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