Elizabethtown College Monday Series concerts feature Broadway show instrumentalist

Wicked's Chad Smith on stage March 30

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/15/2015)(readMedia)-- The Elizabethtown College Monday Series concerts, which have been entertaining the region for more than two decades, bring Trio Caprice, J. Robert Spence and Chad Smith to the E-town stage this winter.

The free concerts take place at 7:30 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, unless otherwise noted.

Starting off the season on Monday, Jan. 26, is Trio Caprice -- faculty members Sara Male, cello; Stephanie McCullough, violin; and Debra Ronning, piano -- along with guest artists Peter Kenote, viola, and Simon Maurer, violin, as they perform the Brahms Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34, as well as selected trio works.

Male is an adjunct faculty member; McCullough is adjunct instructor of violin and viola; and Ronning is a lecturer in the Music Department as well as director of keyboard studies.

On Monday, March 23, J. Robert Spence, associate professor of music and director of instrumental studies at E-town, performs works on trombone, baritone and euphonium by Marcello, Bach, Olson and Rimsky-Korsakov. His concert is held in the College's Zug Recital Hall.

Winding down the series is Chad Smith, multi-instrumentalist for the Broadway show Wicked, as he presents a lecture recital Monday, March 30. Smith will share his passion for saxophone virtuosos Rudy Wiedoeft and Al Gallodoro and discuss his career as a woodwind specialist in New York and Los Angeles.

The program includes Saxophobia, Valse Vanite, Fantasy Impromptu, NOLA and Oodles of Noodles -- Gallodoro's and other classic sax and clarinet works.

Smith is a Selmer performing artist and teaches saxophone at Montclair (N.J.) State University.

Contact: Amy Reynolds at 717-361-1212 or reynoldsa@etown.edu

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Elizabethtown College, located in historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Learn more: http://www.etown.edu/about/

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