| Speaker name: |
Scott LaGraff |
| Topic: |
The French Songs of Lee Hoiby |
| Series: |
 = College Speaker Series |
| Date: |
3/25 |
| Time: |
7:30 pm |
| Location: |
LA 142 |
| Admission: |
$5 adult/$4 senoirs/$2.50 faculty-staff/$2 students |
| Presentation description: |
Lee Hoiby, one of America's leading song composers, has set to music poetry by Arthur Rimbaud and Marcel Osterrieth. The lecture will discuss Hoiby's life and compositional style, the poets, the poetry and the songs themselves. A performance of the songs will follow the lecture. |
| Speaker biography: |
Scott LaGraff is an instructor of voice in the School of Music. A graduate of the Resident Artist Training Program of Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York, he has performed the title roles in Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as The Villains in Les Contes dHoffmann, Reverend Hale in The Crucible and Capulet in Romio et Juliette, among others. He has also appeared with the Syracuse, Tulsa, Pensacola, Westchester Hudson and Ithaca opera companies. A selected list of his concert engagements includes performances of the Fauri Requiem and Handels Messiah with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Dvorak Te Deum with the Baton Rouge Symphony, the Bruckner Te Deum at Carnegie Hall with MidAmerica Productions and solo appearances with the Ocean City Pops, the Binghamton Pops, and the Syracuse Oratorio Society. The Athens, Ohio native received the Bachelor of Music degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the Master of Music degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and is currently a doctoral candidate at Louisiana State University. LaGraff has also held teaching positions at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and Wilkes University in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. |
| Associated Activities: |
Reception |
| Date of Activities: |
3/25 |
| Time of Activities: |
7:30 pm |
| Location of Activities: |
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| Activity Admission: |
$5 adult/$4 senoirs/$2.50 faculty-staff/$2 students |
| University Sponsor: |
School of Music |
| Contact Person: |
Scott LaGraff
lagraffsp@sfasu.edu
936.468.4206 |
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