[150]GUEST SOPRANO AND PIANIST PERFORMS OCT. 20 AT MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 8, 2008
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493

GUEST SOPRANO AND PIANIST PERFORMS OCT. 20 AT MTSU

(MURFREESBORO)—Guest Soprano Carole Choate Blankenship, with pianist Tom Bryant, will perform a free and open concert at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, in Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
Blankenship and Bryant will perform Piangeró la sorte mia by G. F. Handel; a set of five songs by Joseph Marx; Il faut partir mes bons compagnons d’armes by Gaetano Donizetti; Tres Poemas by Joaquin Turina; a set of five songs by Paul Bowles; and I Wish It So by Marc Blitzstein.
Blankenship, assistant professor of Music at Rhodes College in Memphis, is heard regularly in recitals, chamber music concerts and oratorio performances in the Memphis area. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance from the University of Memphis.
MTSU faculty tenor H. Steven Smith, who performed at Rhodes College last month at Blankenship's invitation, said, “Ms. Blankenship is returning the favor. It is a wonderful opportunity for us to have someone on the Rhodes faculty to come and share her talent with us.”
Accompanist Bryant has earned an impressive reputation both as a solo pianist as well as an artistic accompanist.
This Oct. 20 concert is free and open to the public.
For more information on this and other events in the MTSU School of Music, please call 615-898-2493 or visit www.mtsumusic.com.

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