SAI Spring Musicale Set for April 3

The Epsilon Psi Fairmont State University chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, an International Women's Music Fraternity, will present their Spring Musicale on Thursday, April 3, at 3 p.m. in Wallman Hall Room 229.

SAI promotes American Music in their spring musicales and this year, Epsilon Psi will perform music by American composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908). MacDowell lived and worked in New England at the same time that the transcendental writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and composer Amy Cheney Beach were creating their masterworks. Today, MacDowell is remembered at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., a famous retreat for artists to stay and work. SAI Philanthropies founded, supports and preserves Pan Cottage at the MacDowell Colony, providing many American composers with a peaceful countryside setting to complete their latest projects as artists-in-residence.

MacDowell is most well-known for his solo piano work "To a Wild Rose" from his Woodland Sketches which will be performed at the musicale. Other works from his Sea Pieces and Woodland Sketches as well as his song collections will also be performed. The FSU piano ensemble will perform a modern arrangement of his "Tarantella" (or spider-dance) originally written for solo piano and arranged for solo piano and digital piano ensemble.

For more information, please contact Dr. Mary Lynne Bennett, faculty advisor for SAI, at (304) 367-4179.