2008 Woodie Awards
Midday Music to conclude with jazz performance
Sarah Foster
Issue date: 4/17/07 Section: Community
The Midday Music in Oxford performance series will come to a close for the year with the Classical Jazz II Concert April 25.
This performance is a second part to the classical jazz concert that was held in 2005, also as a part of Midday Music in Oxford.
Jack Daugherty, Midday Music event coordinator and former Miami University professor, felt that the jazz theme of the concert needed to be continued this year due to the positive response it previously received from the audience.
"The first performance of classical jazz was so popular, so we decided to organize this one together," Daugherty said.
According to Daugherty, the last Midday Music performance, April 25, hopes to bring students and community members together for an afternoon of unique musical talent.
The event was rescheduled from Feb. 14 due to the snowstorm the area received, Daugherty explained.
Siok Lian Tan, associate professor of piano at Miami University, will be performing in the classical jazz II event. She said she is excited to perform George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" with Robert Thomas, piano professor at Miami. The performances are held during noon and last for no more than an hour, Daugherty said.
"This is a great piece because it is so orchestrated," Tan said. "It is quite symphonic in scorings as well."
This will be the third time Tan has performed with the series.
Other performers include Brian Diller, a Miami senior music education and piano performance major at Miami; Ellen Nettleton, a cellist from Cincinnati; Scott Padden, a Miami junior double major in political science and music; and Robert Thomas, a professor of piano and head of
keyboard studies at Miami.
Midday Music is a series of music performances that bring musicians from Oxford and other areas, including Hamilton and Cincinnati, to the city. This is the 18th year for the performance series, according to Daugherty.
The 2007 program is sponsored by Miami's Institute for Learning in Retirement in celebration of its 10-year anniversary.
This performance is a second part to the classical jazz concert that was held in 2005, also as a part of Midday Music in Oxford.
Jack Daugherty, Midday Music event coordinator and former Miami University professor, felt that the jazz theme of the concert needed to be continued this year due to the positive response it previously received from the audience.
"The first performance of classical jazz was so popular, so we decided to organize this one together," Daugherty said.
According to Daugherty, the last Midday Music performance, April 25, hopes to bring students and community members together for an afternoon of unique musical talent.
The event was rescheduled from Feb. 14 due to the snowstorm the area received, Daugherty explained.
Siok Lian Tan, associate professor of piano at Miami University, will be performing in the classical jazz II event. She said she is excited to perform George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" with Robert Thomas, piano professor at Miami. The performances are held during noon and last for no more than an hour, Daugherty said.
"This is a great piece because it is so orchestrated," Tan said. "It is quite symphonic in scorings as well."
This will be the third time Tan has performed with the series.
Other performers include Brian Diller, a Miami senior music education and piano performance major at Miami; Ellen Nettleton, a cellist from Cincinnati; Scott Padden, a Miami junior double major in political science and music; and Robert Thomas, a professor of piano and head of
keyboard studies at Miami.
Midday Music is a series of music performances that bring musicians from Oxford and other areas, including Hamilton and Cincinnati, to the city. This is the 18th year for the performance series, according to Daugherty.
The 2007 program is sponsored by Miami's Institute for Learning in Retirement in celebration of its 10-year anniversary.
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