{"id":49811,"date":"2023-11-06T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=49811"},"modified":"2023-11-06T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:59:31","slug":"tarleton-wind-ensemble-concert-to-feature-dr-leslie-spotz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-wind-ensemble-concert-to-feature-dr-leslie-spotz\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton Wind Ensemble Concert to Feature Dr. Leslie Spotz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University\u2019s Wind Ensemble presents its fall concert, \u201cSomething Borrowed, Something Blue,\u201d at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the auditorium of the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center in Stephenville. Admission is $5 or free with a Tarleton ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Leslie Spitz, Tarleton Music Professor, will be guest performer at the Wind Ensemble concert Nov. 16.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Music Professor Leslie Spotz,<\/a> coordinator of the piano area at Tarleton, will perform George Gershwin\u2019s \u201cRhapsody in Blue\u201d for solo piano and wind ensemble, as arranged by Donald Hunsberger.

Other concert works will include \u201cThe Blessing of Light\u201d by Australian composer Jodie Blackshaw, \u201cMavericks\u201d by Paul Dooley, and \u201cVariations on a Korean Folk Song\u201d by John Barnes Chance.
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Dr. Spotz received the 2017 Texas Music Teachers Association Outstanding Collegiate Teaching Achievement Award and also that year won the Tarleton State College of Liberal and Fine Arts Faculty Excellence in Research and Creative Activities Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She enjoys an international performing career that spans four continents and four decades and has included solo performances at Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow University; the South Bank Center of London; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; and the famed Academy of Music in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her concert tours of Germany have been widely acclaimed, as have concerts in Italy at the Lorenzo de\u2019 Medici Institute<\/a>, solo recitals in Taiwan and Brazil, and her performance at the opening of the Kimmel Center<\/a>, Philadelphia\u2019s magnificent performance venue.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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