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Thursday, September 5, 1996 - Page 9 Prof's art exhibit celebrates 30 years at WMC Next year Wasyl Palijczuk will land. It had been 50 years since he celebrate 30 years of teaching at had last seen that countryside and Western Maryland College. A long then as a fleeing witness to the her- time in one place, half of his life- rors of World War II. time, he admits. But the Ukrainian- "I like to immerse the viewer born artist wouldn't have it any in the art work and there will be other way. WMC is the right place several pieces in the show that will for him and his life's work. ask for personal involvement," he The College will celebrate and said. "You won't be able to just honor Mr. Palijczuk's devotion to look at them and pass by. I want WMC with "Rescued by Art: A 30~ you to spend time with the work." Year Odyssey," a retrospective Mr. PaIijczuk earned show which opens Sunday, Sept. 8, bachelor's and master's degrees in the Esther Prangley Rice Gal- from the University of Maryland, lery, in Peterson Hall. An opening including that institution's first reception will be held from 2~5 graduate degree in sculpture. He p.m. also earned a master's of fine art The show, featuring early and from the Rinehart School of current works of Mr. Palijczuk in Sculpture at Maryland Institute of many styles and mediums, is the Art. He has exhibited throughout first by a WMC faculty member in the United States and Ukraine. the Rice Gallery which opened ear- Gallery hours are Monday-Fri- Ru.ssian oboist Vladimir Lande and American guitarist William Feasley open the Sundays of Note series lier this year. "Rescued by Art" day noon-4 p.m., Wednesday 7-9 International duo kicks off runs through of the most 11. poignant p.m. and Sunday 2~4 p.m. For October call more information Some the Arts 1996 Sundays of Note work featured will be paintings, Management Office at (410) 857- drawings and photographs from his 2599. 1991 visit to his Ukrainian horne- The 0'Amore Duo, an intema- of music. tional, as well as intemationally- Mr. Feasley, the first guitarist to renowned group, will open the receive the Peabody 1996 Sundays of Note series at Conservatory's coveted Artist Di- Baltimore and with New York's .wesrem Maryland College, Sep- ploma, also was selected to play for tember 29, at 2 p.m., in Baker the great Andres Segovia at the also is a member of the music fac- .Chapel. Master's historic last class and later ulty at SI. Mary's College of Mary- The duo brings together two featured on the CBS special, Eu- land and Washington Conservatory. outstanding young virtuosos from logy of Segovia. Since making his The recital is open to the pub- opposite corners of the world, professional debut in 1980, Mr. lic. Admission is $5 for adults and American guitarist William Peasley Peasley has toured the United $4 for seniors over 65. Students are and Russian oboist Vladimir States and abroad, including con- free with a valid l.D. Sundays of Lande. The group's repertoire in- certs at The Kennedy Center, The Note, funded by the Peggy andYaie cludes a variety of styles and in- National Gallery of Art and The Gordon Trust, is an afternoon se- fluences spanning more than 300 Phillips Gallery, and in New ries bringing outstanding young years and features Mr. Feasley's Zealand, Spain, Iceland, Greece, instrumentalists and vocalists to the creative arrangements of classics and Eastern Europe. He is Artist- ranging from Teleman and Bach to in-Residence at the University of Vaughan Williams and Scott Joplin. Maryland-Baltimore County and is Winners of the Baltimore a faculty member at The Levine Chamber Music Awards and the School in Washington, D.C. Montpelier Recitalist Competition, Born in Leningrad, Mr. Lande the 0' Amore Duo has earned has served as principal oboe with praise from critics throughout the the Leningrad Philharmonic Or- For more information call 4101 world for the group's fresh, yet elo- chestra and has garnered numerous 857-2599. quent approach to its vast selection prestigious prizes in performances Courtesy of Public Information Monday Night Music series opens in Baroque fashion The Monday Night Music se- p.m. in McDaniel Lounge and is ries at Western Maryland College free and open 10 the public, will opens its season on September 9 feature the music as it was written is pretty hard to play in tune. with an evening of Baroque mu- to be performed and as it is per- Ms. Kirkpatrick will pl.ay the sic. And it will even include Ba- formed more than 300 years later. wooden and metal flutes, while Ken roque that Bach would be proud "There were no pianos or metal List, a WMC music lecturer, per- An art show depicting art professor Wasy/ Palijczuk's 30 years at WMC runs of, according to Linda Kirkpatrick, flutes, just harpsichords and forms on the piano and harpsichord. Sept. 8~OCl. J J in the Esther Prangley Rice Gallery ill Peterson Hall. All a WMC music lecturer. wooden flutes and they have such Katherine Barrett, also a WMC mu- opening reception will be held Sunday, Sept. 8, 2-5 p.m. When most Baroque music is a different sound," she continued. sic lecturer, is featured on the cello, played today it isn't quite like the "Also, Baroque pieces were not an instrument that unlike the oth- ian flute repertoire. Composers in- riod, including dynamics and orna- composers intended, she said. written to include vibrato by the ers has not changed significantly clude Michel Blavet, Antonio mentation. There have been changes in style flutist and that's hard not to include since the Baroque period of 1685- Vivaldi, George F. Handel, and For more information call the and technology through the years when you play today because that's 1750. Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, Arts Management Office at (410) that have made true Baroque mu- the way modem players are trained. The concert will feature Ba- sister of Frederick the Great. The 857-2599 orthe WMC Events Line sic a real thing of the past. We will give the audience a chance roque flute sonatas from the musicians also will discuss the per- a1(41O) 857-2766 The concert, which begins at 7 to hear the difference." French, English, German, and ltal- formance practices of the time pe- Courtesy of Public In/ormation