DETROIT, Feb. 16, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Associate Professor and Composer-in-Residence Geoffrey Stanton bands together with friends and colleagues to present a memorable evening of eclectic music on Friday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Marygrove College's Sacred Heart Chapel. An annual event, the program features electronics and projections and the historic chapel pipe organ performing works by Stanton, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Milhaud and Tatum.
Dr. Stanton will also introduce a new song cycle that he set to the poetry of fellow faculty member, Dr. Donald Levin, an award-winning poet and writer. Joining Dr. Stanton will be fellow faculty members Jacqueline Csurgai-Schmitt, piano; Victoria Bigelow, soprano, and Anthony McGlaun, tenor, as well as Gail Jennings on organ and Eugene Zenzen on cello. Stanton and his friends are all known performers in the greater Detroit area.
Geoffrey Stanton is an award-winning multi-genre composer for solo instruments and full orchestra and an active recitalist and clinician who plays the organ, piano and synthesizers. He has performed in Germany and England as well as across the U.S. and has been in residence at the Tanglewood (Lenox, Massachusetts) and Aspen, Colorado, Music Festivals as well as the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Donald Levin is a poet, fiction writer, teacher and editor. He is associate professor of English at Marygrove and the author of a chapbook of poetry, In Praise of Old Photographs (2005), and a novel, The House of Grins (1993). His poem, "Sestina: The Cleaners," was awarded the grand prize for poetry in the 2005 Summer Fiction and Poetry Contest of the Detroit's Metro Times. Drs. Stanton and Levin will give a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m.
The "Stanton and Friends" performance is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. Stanton at 313-927-1310 or gstanton@marygrove.edu. This year, Marygrove will celebrate the inauguration of its 8th president, Dr. David Fike, and "Stanton and Friends" has been designated an event in the Inaugural Year.
Marygrove College is located at 8425 W. McNichols, Detroit (Corner of Wyoming and W. McNichols). The Sacred Heart Chapel is located on the first floor of the Liberal Arts Building. In addition to offering Bachelor's Degrees in Music for voice, organ and piano performance as well as music education, Marygrove provides undergraduate and graduate programs in education, art and art therapy, dance, forensic science, criminal justice, mathematics, social work, social justice, human resource management, business and computer information systems, among many others. Visit us at www.marygrove.edu.
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