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Dalton State College’s Fine Arts and Lecture Series (FALS) will
sponsor an operatic performance by Harry Dunstan, tenor, and Kay
Krekow, soprano, on Tuesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Goodroe Auditorium of Memorial Hall. The concert is free and
open to the public.
Dunstan and Krekow are performers from The American Center for
Puccini Studies who will be on hand to sing musical selections
composed by Giacomo Puccini.
“We are delighted to have these talented artists with us for the
last of our FALS events this spring,” says Jane Taylor, Director
of Public Relations for Dalton State.
“The American Center for Puccini Studies was established in 2004
and has as its mission to present many of Puccini’s lesser known
pieces to music lovers. The founder of the center, Harry
Dunstan, is considered one of the world’s leading Puccini
artists and scholars, and we feel indeed fortunate to have him
on our stage.”
Accompanying the two vocalists will be Michael Wittenburg.
Several of the featured selections include: “Ad una morta,” “Storiella
d’amore,” Sole e amor,” “Inno a Diana,”
and “Terra e mare.”
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From La behome, composed in 1896, are: “Non sono in vena,” “Che
gelida manina,” “Si, mi chiamano Mimi,” and “O soave fanciulla.”
Other selections include: “O mio babbino caro,” “Nessun dorma,”
“Scossa Elettrica,” “Vissi d’arte,” “Ch’ella mi creda,” and “Bimba,
bimba non piangere.”
Members of The American Center for Puccini Studies have
performed extensively since their founding. Their 2007-2008
season opened with Puccini’s popular La boheme and ended with
the company’s orchestral debut with The Piedmont Symphony
Orchestra in performances of Le villi.
Krekow, a soprano, has been a featured soloist with symphonies,
oratorio societies, and opera companies in the United States and
Europe. She is considered to be an acclaimed interpreter of the
heroines of Puccini, and has sung Anna in Le villi, Fidelia in
Edgar, Mimi and Musetta in La boheme, and numerous other lead
roles.
In addition to being the founding artistic director of The
American Center for Puccini Studies, Dunstan has appeared with
regional orchestras and opera companies throughout the United
States and has appeared as a featured soloist at such venues as
the Kennedy Center, Wolftrap, Constitution Hall, and the
Smithsonian Museum. He was the featured soloist in a Papal mass
celebrated by Pope John Paul II.
For more information about the concert, please call
706-272-4469.
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