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News The Phoenix Thursday, September 14, 1995, Page 4 WMC ~rad Pat Young Monday night music to seriously injured in accident HvlisA l.RILL begin this fall at WMC Editor-in-Chief Courtesy of Public Information Office Kirkpatrick (flute). The concert will feature WMC graduate and star of the men's Maryland MD - Western westminster, basketball team Pat Young went back to College's music department will present the a variety of music, including a popular Bra- zilian folk tune, a major work from the clas- shock trauma at the University of Maryland exciting new Monday Night Music this fall sical period and a look at some different Medical Center on Monday to have the inju- with dynamic performances by the WMC fac- compositional styles of music from the sec- ries to his left leg reevaluated and surgery ulty. This series features an enlightening con- ond half of the twentieth century. The rescheduled. cert music lecture setting that explores topics evening will feature music by Machado, Young, who graduated in 1995, was in- which may not be covered in the usual class- Giuliani, Kennan, Kleynjans and Beaser. volved in a severe car accident on July 22. room. The concerts will range from jazz to Other performances of the season in- He was driving home early that Saturday percussion style to the softer sounds of flute clude: Doug Crowder (baritone) and Ken morning when he apparently fell asleep at and guitar music. List (harpsichord) on October 30 and David the wheel and ran his car into a guard rail Monday Night Music will take place in Kreider (piano) and Linda Kirkpatrick con- along the BaltimorelWashington Parkway McDaniel Lounge on selected Mondays at clude the fall concert series on November 30. (295), according to reports. No alcohol was 7:00 p.m. The performances are free and For additional information, contact involved in the accident. welcome guestsof all ages. WMC's Department of Music at (410) 857- Young was then able to put on his flash- basketball team Patrick Young suffers from 2599 or the WMC Events Line at (410) 876- On September 25, Monday ers and get out of the car. broken legs, broken ann, and a bruise on will feature Garth Baxter (guitar) Night Music 2766. and Linda According to Mr. Nick Zculias, head his brain after a car accident in August. coach of WMC's men's basketball team, his left shin. She said Sundays of Note opens soon Young's short-term memory about the acci- "If the surgery takes, Pat will be good," dent is not clear. "For whatever reason, said his mother, Virginia Young. whether he was in distress or disoriented, Pat that the doctors will eventually do a bone [Young] got out into the road somehow," said graft. "He is still in danger of losing his Courtesy of Public Information Office elude excerpts from Bach's Coffee Cantata Zoulias. That area of the parkway was very leg. Ifit was not for his leg, he'd be great." Westminster, MD-The newly formed and Mozart's Die Zauberflole, Rossini's cat dark, according to Zoulias, and Young was Due to the injuries he sustained to his Peabody Four will open this year's lith sea- duet, and some of opera's most gorgeous struck by an oncoming car going about 55 head and the heavy medication he has been son of Sundays of Note at Western Maryland duets: De.libes Lakme and Bizet's Les to 60 mph. on, Young had not been aware of his condi- College on Sunday, September 17 at2p.m. in Pechurs de PerIes. The concert will close "He's fortunate to be alive;" said tion or events around him. However, McDaniel Lounge. This series of weekend with selections from popular musical theatre Zoulias. "There was a point when I was very Zoulias said he has " noticed a dramatic afternoons offers superb performances by works. concerned if he would live." improvement in Pat's memory in the last young guest musicians and vocalists in the Ms. Englar is celebrating her first anni- Zoulias, who was not only Young's two weeks. His appetite is returning, and relaxed historic, salon-like settings on the versary as voice instructor at Western Mary- coach but a close friend during his years at he is much more aware of the situation. We Westminster campus. land and-she is well known in the Baltimore WMC, visits Young eve.ry week at the are really seeing his personality reappear." Mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, who was area, having served on the faculty of St. Montebello Rehabilitation Hospital in Bal- Mrs. Young is very happy with his named among the best up-and-coming classi- Paul's School, as musical director for The- timore. "He's coming along very well," progress. "It's a real blessing," she said. cal musicians in the Baltimore area by The ater Saturday & Summer Theater Festival, Zoulias stated. Lakeisha Rivers, also a former WMC City Paper, will be joined by Peabody Four and as artistic director for the Parallel Col- The frontal lobe of Young's cerebrum student and Young's girlfriend, has been at vocalists Charmaine Hamann, Jos Milton and lective Ensemble. She has performed with was badly bruised in the accident, causing the hospital every day. "When the accident Steve Rainbolt at the Sept. 17 concert. Accom- the Municipal Opera Company and the his loss of short term memory. In addition, first happened, she kept a constant vigil," plished pianist Robert Muckenfuss who has Peabody Opera Theater. A review in the his arm and right leg are broken, and his said Zoulias. "She has really been an in- just completed his third season as principal Baltimore Sun declared her" ... a virtuoso of lower left leg sustained an extreme injury spiration to those around Pat." coach, harpsichordist, and chorus master for a high order ... dramatic and visceral..," Ad- which has required several surgeries. Many Young's ordeal has been extremely dif- the Wolf Trap Opera Company will accom- ditionally, she has performed with the more surgeries could be possible to repair see "Young," p.8 pany the Peabody Four. Georgetown University Orchestra, the Johns The ensemble will present a primarily Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, the Goucher Renovations, con't from p.l opera concert entitled "Coffee, Carnivores and Symphony Orchesta, the Frederick Sym- Characters of Question." Featured works in- see "Sundays of Note," p.5 of the project will be $12 million So far Science Fest, an educational pro3ram $4.4 million has been raised to pay forthe about the sciences at WMC, will be held renovation costs. Included in (hat amount is on October 28. The purpose of the event is a grant of $3.5 million from the state of to build excitement and support for the sci- An l])Thlm IP ~ fi CO) l]]l ~f£m Maryland. This grant is the largest ever re- ence program. ceived by WMC. Included in the schedule are two speak- a Dr. Benjamin Carson, The intent is to break ground sometime ers including: from Johns Hopkins University, presents: "The 2nd Annual next summer, contingent upon the fund rais- neurosurgeon ing. Stevenson Close, associate vice presi- and Dr. Theodore Woodward, an infectious dent and director of development, said, "Cer- disease specialist. Also invited are a large Feast of Fools and Asses" tainly we need a lot of progress to make it number of alumni who were biology and that soon but that is a goal." chemistry majors. Preserving the past for the future willing to show your talent or just want to see a good show? Food will once again be served in Me- air-conditioned. And faculty members morial Hall, but only for an evening. The who bemoaned having to move decades' Whether you want to do stand-up, newly renovated building, now home to the worth of possessions from their belove: humanities and social science departments, offices, are settled happily into their nee will be rededicated Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. with a digs. skits, sing, juggle, or even hum festive tribute by faculty, students and Everyone is invited to celebrate th alumni. college'S commitment to "Preserving th the "Star-Spangled Banner" '" Formerly the dining hall, Memorial Past for the Future" as Memorial Hall re now serves up classes and special programs. claims itself as the central academic build The 66-year-old building will feature two ing of an even more beautiful campus. A be on the lookout for newly constructed amphitheaters on the first hour-long program will be presented i floor-each seating about 40 students- Baker Memorial Chapel, followed by a re that provide an intimate atmosphere for ception and student-led tours of refurbishe audition info SOON!! poetry readings and political debates. Memorial. Of course, hors d'oeuvres wil Classrooms are bright and airy, as well as be served.