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THIRD
FESTIVAL SERIES EVENT TO FEATURE ANDRÉ WATTS
BOWLING GREEN, O.--Pianist André
Watts returns to Bowling Green State University for an
appearance in the Festival Series at 8 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 9, in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center.
In addition to his performance
that evening, Watts will be the guest host for the Festival
Forum at 7 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the center. The
forum is a free, 30-minute, pre-concert discussion of
the evening's program.
The performance, part of the series
sponsored by BGSU’s College of Musical Arts, is the
Lois M. Nitschke Memorial Concert, supported by Norman
Nitschke and his family in memory of his wife.
The concert is also a Heartland
Arts Fund Program. The Heartland Arts Fund is a collaborative
venture of Arts Midwest, Mid-America Arts Alliance, their
member state arts agencies (Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and
Wisconsin) with primary funding from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and support from private contributors.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund
this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic
growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment
for all Ohioans.
Watts burst upon the music world
at the age of 16 when Leonard Bernstein chose him to make
his debut with the New York Philharmonic in Young People’s
Concerts broadcast nationwide on CBS. Two weeks later,
Bernstein asked him to substitute at the last minute for
the ailing Glenn Gould in performances of Liszt’s
E-flat concerto with the New York Philharmonic, thus launching
his career in storybook fashion.
A much-honored artist who has played
before royalty in Europe and heads of government in nations
all over the world, Watts received the Avery Fisher Prize
in 1988.
At age 26 he was the youngest person
ever to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Yale University,
and he has since received numerous honors from highly
respected schools. Watts is serving as the artist-in-residence
at the University of Maryland for the 2000-01 season.
At Bowling Green, Watts will perform
Haydn’s "Sonata No. 58 in C Major," Mozart’s
"Rondo in A Minor," Beethoven’s "Sonata
in F Minor, Op. 57" and Chopin’s "Nocturne
in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1" and "Sonata
No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35."
Single tickets can be purchased
for $38, $30 and $22. Tickets can be ordered by calling
the Moore Musical Arts Center box office at (419) 372-8171
or 1-800-589-2224.
(Posted 11/28/00)
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