Fresno State’s department of music faculty and students hold concert for scholarship funding
Conductor Thomas Loewenheim leads the Fresno State Gala Orchestra, a faculty-student orchestral collaboration, during a performance of Aram Khachaturian’s “Nocturne” for the Faculty Gala Concert held in the Music Foyer on campus Saturday.
On Saturday evening, Fresno State’s department of music presented its Faculty Gala Concert Benefit, an orchestral collaboration of its faculty members and their top students.
Dr. Thomas Loewenheim, director of the University Orchestra conducted the night’s performance with a three-piece program of compositions from Schubert’s “Symphony No. 9 played in C Major, D.” 944 “The Great”; Khachaturian’s “Suite from Masquerade (1944)” and DvoŠ™ák’s “Slavonic Dance No.1 in C major, Op.46, No.1.”
The orchestral collaboration featured Schubert’s sweet romanticized melodies to Khachaturian’s and DvoŠ™ák’s energetic dance pieces.
The event’s audience included Fresno State students and faculty, members of the Arts and Humanities advisory board, community members along with Fresno State President Joseph Castro and Mary Castro.
“It was incredibly exciting,” Castro said of the night’s performance.
“It’s the first time we’ve seen the faculty concert””it’s great to see faculty and students play together.”
In order to make the concert possible all participating faculty and students worked collectively for three days to prepare the night’s program.
“It is a big sacrifice each member of the orchestra does, but we hope to excite our audience and provide them with a wonderful experience,” Loewenheim said.
“This is the second time we have an orchestral collaboration of students and faculty””I do not know of any other university that presents a faculty and student orchestral collaboration.”
Proceeds from the benefit are used to support the Department of Music Scholarship Fund and are the only means of fundraising to help students in the program.
“The support and attendance at our concerts is most meaningful to me and our students,” Loewenheim said.
Dulce Vargas, a Fresno State sophomore and music education major, was one of the selected students to be a part of the night’s performance. Playing the flute under the direction of Dr. Teresa Beaman, Vargas said she was honored to play her first Faculty Gala Concert with those she considers her role models.
“It’s really exciting to play with people I look up to. Getting the opportunity to play with them is a one of a kind experience,” Vargas said.
Ergun Kirlikovali • Feb 3, 2015 at 1:34 pm
R.I.P. THE (ALLEGED) ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
“How can you be so sure that 1915 is genocide?”
This simple but poignant question, posed by the presiding judge at the European Court of Human Rights to the lawyers of the Armenian side, sums it all up, doesn’t it? It is like “the king is naked” call of the “genocide industry”. Need one say more?
After all, the Jewish Holocaust verdict is backed up by Nuremberg Tribunal. Where is the Armenian Nuremberg? Where is the court-verdict that says 1915 is genocide? (Don’t waste your time looking for it, as it does NOT exist.) All we have are discredited claims, biased articles and editorials, relentless propaganda, intimidation, terrorism, an PR gimmicks like films, exhibits, memorials, and similar embellishments produced by the Armenians. But no concrete facts. Nothing that can stand the scrutiny of a court room.
It would be a conservative statement to say, therefore, that the legal arguments and pleas for freedom of speech presented by the Turkish side “buried” the Armenian side, which produced little more than a pretty face in Amal Clooney. Roberston was same old, same old., with repeating the official Armenian narrative like a broken record.
2015 will be the year, it seems, when we will finally say “rest In peace” to the bogus
Armenian genocide claims.