Dec. 19, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Michele Abba
Cal Poly Music Department
805-756-2406
music@calpoly.edu, http://music.calpoly.edu <http://music.calpoly.edu/>

Cal Poly Professor W. Terrence Spiller to Give Benefit Piano Concert Jan. 13

SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Pianist W. Terrence Spiller, chair of Cal Poly’s Music Department, will give a benefit recital of works by Beethoven, R. Schumann, Ravel and Bartok at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, in the Spanos Theatre at Cal Poly.

Spiller will open with works by Beethoven, including the Rondo a capriccio in G major, (“Rage Over a Lost Penny”), followed by the Bagatelle in A minor (“Für Elise”), and will conclude with the Sonata in C major.

Following intermission, Spiller will perform Robert Schumann’s “Papillons,” (“Butterlies”), Ravel’s “Pavanne pour une infante défunte,” (“Pavane for a Dead Princess”) and Bartok’s Sonate.

Tickets to the recital are $6 for students and senior citizens and $10 for the public. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787).

Patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket Office will receive a 10 percent discount; those who buy tickets to five or more are given a 15 percent discount.

Proceeds from the recital will benefit the Cal Poly Music Department Scholarship Fund. The recital is sponsored by the Music Department and College of Liberal Arts. For more information, call 756-2406.

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