Wooster Music Club hears selections from Dilgard winner
The Wooster Music Club recently held its March meeting. The club meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. from September through May, with the exception of January and February, at Wesley Hall in the Wooster United Methodist Church.
The Wooster Music Club held its March 5 program and meeting at the Wooster United Methodist Church in Wesley Hall. Judithe Craig, club president, welcomed members and guests back from a brief winter hiatus.
Starting off the program was Dilgard Scholarship recipient Ian DeArment. DeArment has been studying the piano under the tutelage of instructor Sallie Morton for the past 10 years. His first selection was an original composition titled “Dance of the Forest Animals.” This was followed by “The Great Smoky Mountains” by composer David Carr Glover. DeArment is currently a senior at Wooster High School and plans to attend Ashland University in the fall.
Clarinetist Marty Starkey, with piano accompanist Myra Leeper, performed “Fantasy-Piece, Opus 73 No. 1,” by composer Robert Schumann. Schumann, born in 1810, is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era.
Alysa Musselman, vocalist, accompanied by her mother Stephanie Musselman on piano, sang two traditional Irish songs. “Believe Me (If All Those Endearing Young Charms)” by Irish poet Thomas Moore and “The Rising of the Moon” by John Keegan Casey were her selected pieces.
Following this was local musician Eric Fairhurst, performing “Concerto for Alto Saxophone” by composer Georges Tourneur. Accompanying Fairhurst on piano was Christina Matthews.
Hope Long, dressed in her tartan Scottish regalia, performed three pieces on the Scottish small pipes. Her selections were “All the Blue Bonnets over the Border” (traditional), “Sound of Sleat” by composer D. MacKinnon and “Drew James MacIntosh” by composer Bob Worral.
The program was completed with poetry recited by Margaret Latta. Her first poem was an original she had written in college titled “Silence.” This was followed by a poem she dedicated to Ukraine titled “Russia Ukraine War; May Humanity and Compassion Prevail” by Bernedita Rosinha Pinto.
The Wooster Music Club meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. from September through May, with the exception of January and February, at Wesley Hall in the Wooster United Methodist Church. Guests are welcome.