Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A group of South American piano students will help showcase the music of their native homeland during next month's Seventh Annual Brazilian Music Festival at Mississippi State University.
This year's cultural tribute begins at 7:30 p.m. April 1 when students from Escola De Músicos, a private Brazilian music school, join with the Girls' Ensemble of Central Academy in Macon for a concert in the Bettersworth Auditorium of Giles Hall. Led by their respective music directors, Ivana Bontempo and Martha Blackwell, the groups will perform the works of classical Brazilian composers.
At 2 p.m. the following day [April 2], the international visitors will join MSU music professor and Brazilian native Rosângela Sebba for a lecture and recital featuring music by composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. The program will be centered on his "Guia Prático," a collection of more than 100 works designed for educational purposes.
Organized by Sebba and sponsored by the music department, both events are free and open to all.
This same lecture-recital is being performed on March 28 during the International Villa-Lobos Conference at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
For more information, contact Sebba at 662-325-2854 or rys@colled.msstate.edu.
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