Date: 3/9/2010

Subject: CU to Host Noon Organ Recital Series Featuring Sperry

Message: Dr. James Sperry of Greensburg, Ky. will perform during the Noon Organ Recital Series at Campbellsville University, Tuesday, March 9. The event will be in Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville, Ky., at 12:20 p.m. He will play on the university’s Farrand and Votey Pipe Organ. The recital is free and open to the public. It will end at 12:50 p.m., in time for those attending to go back to work. Sperry will be performing “Tiento” by Pablo Bruna, “Prelude and Fugue in C Major” by J. S. Bach, “Two Dances to Agni Yavishta” by Jehan Alain and “Toccata Festiva” by Franklin Ashdown. Sperry has had a varied career as church musician and college instructor. He has taught organ, music history and theory at Belleville Area College in Illinois, El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso and was head of arts and humanities at Huron College in South Dakota. During his teaching career, he has held church music positions as organist and director of music. His other performing instrument is harpsichord and has played with early music groups at the University of Texas at El Paso and in Las Cruces, N.M., and was awarded a performance grant from the South Dakota Arts Council. Sperry holds degrees from the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Oregon and has a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He and his wife, Patsy, now live in Greensburg where they are restoring a Federal period house. For more information on the recital, contact Dr. Wesley Roberts, professor of music, at 270-789-5287 or via e-mail at mwroberts@campbellsville.edu.

Added By: Administrator on 3/8/2010 4:49:42 PM