Edgar Allan Poe bicentennial to be marked with concert performance

Wednesday, November, 11, 2009; 11:06 PM | 0 | | Print

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Tech’s music department is to hold a concert commemorating the 200th anniversary of poet Edgar Allan Poe’s birth on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. in the Squires Recital Salon.

The event will feature music spanning over a century of styles and inspired from Poe’s work. The music was composed by award-winning composer George J. Hutter of DePaul University; pianist Tracy Cowden commissioned the songs.

Performers will include Cowden, faculty members Ariana Wyatt and Benjamin Wyatt, and Patricia Raun, director of Tech’s School of Performing Arts and Cinema.

The concert is a part of the ongoing University Chamber Music Series.

Tickets cost $5 for students and $15 for the general public, and can be purchased at the UUSA ticket office in Squires Student Center, on its Web site, or by calling (540) 231-5200.

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