Chamber Music of Barbara Harbach Presented on March 20 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Festival of Women Composers
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Barbara Harbach’s Pioneer Women: From Skagway to White Mountain for soprano, clarinet and piano will be featured on March 20, 10 AM at the Ninth Festival of Women Composers, presented by the Music Department of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, in the school’s Gorell Recital Hall, 422 South Eleventh Street in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Pioneer Women: From Skagway to White Mountain is a collection of four portraits of American women who helped to settle the wilds of Alaska, with texts taken from their diaries, letters, monographs and journals. It has been recorded for MSR Classics, MS1256 – http://www.msrcd.com/1256/1256.html. The piece will be performed at the Festival by Christine Buckstead, soprano, Eleanor Elkins, piano, Timothy Bonenfant, clarinet on a program that also includes music by Elizabeth Bell, Deborah Kavasch, and Stella Sung. The program was previously performed by the trio on March 2 at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas.
For information about this and other Ninth Festival of Women Composers events, visit http://www.iup.edu/music/fwc/default.aspx.
Visit http://www.umsl.edu/services/creative/assets/pdfs/messenger/harbach_fanfare.pdf to read an article about Harbach’s music in the January-February issue of Fanfare magazine. Her website is at www.barbaraharbach.com/.
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