Pro Musica presenting ‘Coffee and Classics’
Pro Musica will host its fifth annual "Coffee and Classics" Saturday at
10:30 a.m. in the atrium of the Wood County District Public Library, 215 N. Main
Street in downtown Bowling Green.
The chamber music concert will feature music students from Bowling Green State
University’s College of Musical Arts. Students performing have all been
recipients of travel grants funded through Pro Musica at the college.
The program will include:
• Clarinetist Devin Starr and pianist Ana Yoder performing "Sonata, Op.
128" by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
• Flutist Colleen O’Shea Jones and pianist Vitaly Serebriakov performing
"Sonata, Op. 167 ‘Undine’" by Carl Reinecke.
• Flutist Erin Latham performing "Zoom Tube" by Ian Clarke.
Starr, from Warrenville, Ill., studies with Kevin Schempf. Yoder, from Elkhart, Ind.,
and Serebriakov, from Russia, study with Robert Satterlee. All three are
graduate students at the college.
Jones, a graduate student from Lansing, Mich., and Latham, a senior music performance
major from Akron, both study with Conor Nelson.
‘Vagina Monologues’ at BGSU
Bowling Green State University’s annual production of Eve Ensler’s "The Vagina
Monologues" will be performed Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2
p.m. in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theatre.
The performance is directed by Taylor Harrison and produced by Jessica Zur-Linden.
Tickets are $10 and $8 for BGSU students.
"The Vagina Monologues" is presented by BGSU’s Organization for Women’s
Issues. Proceeds will be donated to the Wood County Cocoon Shelter.
Portier fest continues at Way
PERRYSBURG – "Edge of the City," a 1957 film starring Sidney Portier, will
be shown Sunday at 2 p.m. in the lower-level of Way Public Library.
The film, which also stars John Cassavetes, was one of the first movies to explore
interracial friendship. Jack Warden and Ruby Dee costar.
The film is being shown as part of the library Portier film festival being offered to
celebrate Black History Month.
Jose Cardenas, a instructor of cinematography at Bowling Green State University, will
be the guest speaker at the free film screening.
Jazz vocalist on stage
MAUMEE – The Morgen Stiegler Quartet will perform Friday and Saturday at Degage Jazz
Cafe, 301 River Road.
The jazz vocalist will perform from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. each night.
Joining her will be guitarist Chris Buzzelli, percussionist Rob Wallace, drums and
multi-instrumentalist Doug Neel.
UT hosts pianist Amstutz
TOLEDO – Pianist Peter Amstutz will present a free master class and recital Saturday
and Sunday as part of the Dorothy MacKenzie Price Piano Series at the University
of Toledo.
Amstutz has received awards at numerous international piano competitions, and he was
a Fulbright Scholar at the Vienna Academy of Music.
He will present a master class Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon and a recital on Sunday
at 3 p.m. in UT’s Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall.
Cathedral hosts organ concert
TOLEDO -Organist Paul Monachino will perform a concert on Rosary Cathedral’s historic
E.M Skinner organ on Sunday at 3 p.m.
The program will include works by Fran?ßois Couperin, J. S. Bach, Myron Roberts and
Charles-Marie Widor as well as settings of early American hymn tunes. A freewill
offering will benefit the Cathedral Concert Series. Monachino is director of
music and organist at Rosary Cathedral.
