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March 28, 2008

SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY HOSTS DUXBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL
SNEAK PREVIEW CONCERT ON SUNDAY, APRIL 13TH   
 

World Class Musicians Perform Chamber Music at the Home of Jane and Clark Hinkley

 

Duxbury , Mass. – (March 28, 2008) – Warm up to the sounds of summer at the Duxbury Music Festival Sneak Preview Concert and reception on Sunday, April 13, at 4 pm, at the new home of Jane and Clark Hinkley in Duxbury. Celebrated South Shore Conservatory pianist, Stephen Deitz, mezzo- soprano, Beth MacLeod, and violist, Philip Rush, will perform with nationally acclaimed bass, George Cordes of the Metropolitan Opera, to showcase the Duxbury Music Festival’s world class faculty. Selections will include Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific; Banquo’s Aria from Verdi’s Macbeth, the duet La Ci Darem La Mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Zwei Gesange, Op. 91 by Johannes Brahms for voice, piano and viola. This will be a rare opportunity to experience chamber music in an intimate and inviting setting. Tickets are $50 per person and benefit the Duxbury Music Festival. Seating is limited. Music lovers are encouraged to purchase tickets early.

South Shore Conservatory’s Third Annual Duxbury Music Festival, July 11-26, is a two-week intensive program for the study and performance of solo and chamber repertoire for piano and voice for undergraduate and post-graduate students and adult professionals. The Festival takes place at the Conservatory’s Ellison Center for the Arts, with additional performances at the Performing Arts Center, First Parish Church, Millennium Town Green and a private home.  

April 14, 2008

South Shore Conservatory thanks Jane and Clark Hinkley for hosting the Duxbury Music Festival Preview Concert on April 13. The concert featured Festival and Conservatory faculty including Beth MacLeod, mezzo-soprano, George Cordes, bass, Stephen Deitz, piano, and Philip Rush, viola.

  

Tom Tucker, Sharon Fownes, Lyell Franke, Mollie Dunn and Fred Clifford Sue Jannetty, Jim McClure, Beth MacLeod, Nancy Dana and George Cordes Hosts Clark and Jane Hinkley with Duxbury Music Festival Co-Chairs Lyell Franke and Mimi Jannetty
Carol Loring, Barbara Clifford and Marcy Bravo The performers: Philip Rush, viola, Stephen Deitz, piano, Beth MacLeod, mezzo-soprano, and George Cordes, bass Margery MacMillan, Bill Spang, Dick Loring and Beth MacLeod
Nancy Dana, Jack Eustis, Lyell Franke and Sidney McClure