Judith Lang Zaimont is Featured Composer and Scholar of Athena Festival at Murray State University in Kentucky from March 10 to 13 New York, NY - Composer Judith Lang Zaimont will be the featured composer and scholar of the Athena Festival at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky from March 10 to 13. Ms. Zaimont's activities at the Festival include giving the Keynote Speech at the Festival Banquet, presenting Masterclasses on her works (including student and faculty performances), an afternoon concert of her music, evening faculty and chamber choir concerts, working one-on-one with several composition students, presenting a public lecture: Imaging the Composer Today and participating in an analysis session about her style and key compositions. Works to be performed at the Festival include Ms. Zaimont's Hesitation Rag, and In My Lunchbox, both for solo piano, two movements from Snazzy Sonata for piano, four hands, Music for Two for flute and clarinet, Folksong for clarinet quartet, Duo for clarinet and bassoon, Bubble-Up Rag for flute and piano, Valse Romantique for solo flute, Parallel Play for saxophone quartet, and choral works Psalm 97 (Movement I of Sacred Service for the Sabbath Evening) and O Mistress Mine and How Sweet I Roamed from Three Airs. The Athena Festival is a biennial event, sponsored by the University's Department of Music, devoted to the study and performance of music composed by women. The Festival is a multi-faceted event reaching public school music students, MSU students and faculty, regional audiences and scholars/performers front across the country. The Athena Festival VI will include three days of lecture/recital sessions, and concerts featuring MSU Concert Choir, MSU Jazz Orchestra and Department of Music Faculty Chamber Music ensembles. For a complete list of Festival events, visit http://www.murraystate.edu/chfa/Music/Athena-schedule.htm. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Tel: 516-586-3433 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html