Oboe and Organ Benefit Concert
Friday, March 12
Christ Church Grosse Pointe is hosting a concert on Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. to benefit Bound Together Detroit and Wayne State University's Music Scholarship Fund.
The dynamic combination of "reeds and pipes" of both the oboe and organ come together in this intriguing program of music from modern times and the past to showcase the growth and development of instrument technology and compositional processes with respect to the oboe and pipe organ. Dr. Norah Duncan, IV, (organ) and Dr. Eldonna L. May (oboe) will delight listeners with the works of Handel, Krebs, Marcello, J.S. Bach, Hertel, Schickhardt, Badings, Pinkham, Peeters, Hovhaness and more.
A donation of $10 per person or $25 per family is suggested.
About the Performers:
Eldonna L. May is a well-known performer, educator and speaker in the metro-Detroit area. Eldonna is a faculty member of the music department at Wayne State University, and Florida State College-Jacksonville Humanities Department where she lectures in music history and humanities. She has regularly appeared with the Michigan Opera Theatre, Birmingham-Bloomfield, Dearborn, Warren, Plymouth and Traverse Symphony Orchestras, as well as with the Frederick DeHaven Chorale, Brazeal Dennard Chorale, and the Metropolitan Detroit Chorale festival orchestras. She has appeared with international entertainers Henri Mancini, Yanni, Donna Summer, Michael Feinstein, The Moody Blues, Alvin Wadles, and gospel singers Sandy Patty, Marvin Winans and Karen Clark Sheard.
Norah Duncan IV is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Music at Wayne State University. He is also the Area Coordinator for Organ Performance. Additionally, he directs the WSU Concert Chorale and coordinates many of the choral concerts presented by the Department of Music. A multi-faceted musician, he recently presented organ recitals throughout Michigan and Ohio and in Germany, Poland and Australia. He served as music director and principal organist for the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament for 26 years. With the Benedictine Monastery in Solesmes, France, Norah established the Gregorian Institute of Detroit for the study of Gregorian chant. As a choral director, Norah has presented major concerts under the Cathedral Cultural Series with the Archdiocesan Chorus, and has collaborated in concerts with many Detroit area choral ensembles. He has prepared choruses for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra and the Grosse Pointe Symphony Orchestra, and directed the Michigan Youth Choral Ensemble in Carnegie Hall in New York City. Norah is the recipient of numerous awards, including the most recent – the Wayne State Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award for his many community endeavors.
About The Beneficiaries:
Bound Together Detroit is a non-profit, after-school tutoring and enrichment program serving the children of Oakland County, MI for over a decade. Their mission is to create a safe, stable, diverse environment for personal and academic excellence, and to nurture the development of young people to be creative, self-directed, collaborative leaders. Their top-quality tutoring program is designed to target "at risk" children, including economically disadvantaged students in grades one through six. It is offered free of charge three days a week. Bound Together depends on the support of dedicated tutors, private donors, corporate sponsors and fundraisers throughout the year.
Wayne State University Department of Music Scholarship Fund awards talent-based scholarships to undergraduate and graduate music majors with superior academic records and high musical achievement. Talent-based scholarships provide funding between $4,000 and $8,000 per academic year. These scholarships require recipients to maintain a 3.0 grade point average, participate in a major ensemble as assigned by the Department of Music, and enroll for a minimum of twelve undergraduate credit hours per term (nine graduate hours per term).
Christ Church Grosse Pointe is located at 61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard, next to Grosse Pointe South High School, in Grosse Pointe Farms. Ample, lighted parking is located behind the church and at the high school.
For more information, visit www.christchurchgp.org or by call the church office at 313-885-4841.
