Allison Oster
Senior Media Relations Specialist
(626) 815-4518
APU Celebrates an Evening of the Arts
November 17, 2005
AZUSA, Calif. –
WHO:
Azusa Pacific University’s School of Music, Department of Art, and Department of Communication Studies
WHAT:
APU’s School of Music, Department of Art, and Department of Communication Studies collaborate for an evening of music, art, and narration to celebrate the arts. Admission is free.
WHERE:
APU’s Munson Chapel on East Campus
901 E. Alosta Ave., Azusa, Calif.
WHEN:
Mon., Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
WHY:
Celebration of the Arts, sponsored by several of APU’s academic areas, is an evening dedicated to expanding and enriching students’ and community’s view of the arts.
FACTS:
- APU’s Wind Ensemble will perform Pictures at An Exhibition by Russian composer Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky while art students display various artwork. Students from APU’s forensics team will narrate the evening, introducing each movement of the musical selection.
- Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky (1839-81) was primarily a self-taught composer. Though his contemporaries accused him of lacking technique and education, today Moussorgsky is thought of as the great innovator of Russian music. Although he gained fame as a composer of opera and songs, Moussorgsky wrote a number of works for piano, including the suite Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874. The impetus for this series of piano pieces was a tragic occurrence in his life: the sudden death of a good friend, the architect and graphic artist Victor Hartmann, in 1873. The following spring Moussorgsky attended a showing of Hartmann’s works, and it this visit that inspired him to compose Pictures at an Exhibition.
- For more information on the evening, contact Donavon Gray at (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3585, or email dgray@apu.edu.
- Featured in TIME magazine and ranked as one of the nation’s best by U.S.News & World Report and The Princeton Review, Azusa Pacific is a comprehensive, Christian, evangelical university, committed to God First and known for excellence in higher education. Azusa Pacific’s main campus lies just 26 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley, while its seven Southern California regional centers bring convenience and extend quality programming. The university offers more than 50 areas of undergraduate study, 22 master’s degrees, and 6 doctorates to a total student population of more than 8,100. For more information, call (800) 825-5278 or visit www.apu.edu.
