The Robert G. Boehmler Community Foundation series will bring Paul Sperry, American song scholar and vocalist, to Ithaca College for a series of master classes and a lecture-recital. All events are free and open to the public.
Sperry will perform at a lecture-recital on Monday, October 27, at 7:00 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall. Pianist Charis Dimaras will collaborate.
Other master classes will be held on:
* Friday, October 24, 4:00 p.m., Hockett Family Recital Hall
* Saturday, October 25, noon, Whalen Center room 3102
* Saturday, October 25, 4:00 p.m., Whalen Center room 2105
* Sunday, October 26, 3:00 p.m., Hockett Family Recital Hall
Sperry has performed with the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Boston and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, the Amsterdam Concertgebauw, and the Moscow Philharmonic. His repertoire includes hundreds of songs, cycles, oratories, chamber works in more than a dozen languages, and a host of musical idioms.
Many leading composers have written especially for him. He sang the starring role of Michael in the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's opera Donnerstag aus Licht at Milan's La Scala and premiered Jacob Druckman’s Animus IV for the opening of the Pompidou Center in Paris.
Since 1987 he has served as the director of Joy in Singing, an organization dedicated to helping young singers and American composers foster the art of song.
Sperry is coming to campus thanks to a grant from the Robert G. Boehmler Community Foundation. Boehmler, who received a bachelor's degree from the Ithaca College School of Music in 1938 and a master’s degree in 1961, was a musician and educator who established this foundation to support education in the communities in which he lived. A music teacher in the Palmyra-Macedon (New York) School District for many years, Boehmler died in 1998.
Robert G. Boehmler Community Foundation Series
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