September 21, 1999
LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas Instrumental Collegium Musicum will present its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, in Swarthout Recital Hall.
According to Paul Laird, KU associate professor of music history, who directs the collegium, the concert is a memorial to Katharine Ketcham, a nursing professor and amateur recorder player from Oneonta, N.Y., who moved to Lawrence during her retirement. Following her death last spring, her family donated her large collection of recorder music to the Instrumental Collegium Musicum. Most of the music played in the ensemble's first concert is from this collection, Laird said. Included are works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods by John Adson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, George Frederic Handel, Heinrich Isaac, John Wilbye and other composers. A highlight of the concert will be a suite of dances and arias from Handel's first opera, "Rodrigo."
Members of the Instrumental Collegium Musicum include recorder players Ali Tonn, Lawrence, Zechariah Goh, Singapore, Thomas Heilke, Lawrence, Michel Prahl, Baldwin City, and Julie West, Lawrence; viol player Carol Mitchell, Lawrence; harpsichordists Tony Bushard, Lawrence, and Kay Christie, Lawrence; and tenor Hugo Vera, Lawrence.
The concert is free and open to the public.