Grave Performances will feature piano
students, of faculty member Mary Medrick,
performing, in costume, “romantic
piano music, performed as if in a haunted
parlor setting, with spooky readings interspersed
with the music.”
UTD students performing in this production
are Apryl Berryman, Kevin Chang, Nancy Felix,
Sin-ae Kwon, Philip Lieu, Sally Martens,
Chris Philip, Daniel Puffe, Brigitte Sadjadi,
Bree Szostek, Mark Thorpe, Sarah Thurman,
Fern Yoon, and Kourash Zakeri.
Selected readings will include stories
by Edward Gorey, America’s ‘dark
genius’ Edgar Allen Poe, and other
authors. Hungarian composer Stephen Heller,
who was a friend of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt,
Schubert, and Schumann, wrote the majority
of the music the students will be performing.
Medrick’s students are recording a
CD of Heller’s elegant pieces. During
their research for this project, they discovered
a number of his works were suitably dark
and spooky for a Halloween event.
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2002-2003 Events
