UL-Lafayette Friends of Music Voice Competition

The annual UL-Lafayette Friends of Music Voice Competition will be held at 7:30 pm at Ducrest-Gilfry Auditorium at Angelle Hall.  The competition is open to voice students at UL-Lafayette and the 10 students entered will compete for first, second and third prizes.  Admission is free.

Soprano/Piano Recital

The UL-Lafayette School of Music is presenting a guest performance byClaire Vangelisti and Brian Marks on Wednesday, March 3rd at 7:30 pm at Gilfrey-Ducrest Auditorium in Angelle Hall. This world traveling duo will perform a program of works for voice by Georg Friedric Handel, Alban Berg, Richard Strauss, and William Grant Still and works for piano by Frederic Chopin and Franz Josef Haydn.  Claire Vangelisti in on the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Monroe and Brian Marks is on the faculty of Baylor University.

Admission is free. 

UL-Lafayette Opera Theatre

The UL-Lafayette Opera Theatre is currently in rehearsal for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which will run from March 25th through March 29th with 4 performances in Ducrest-Gilfry Auditorium in Angelle Hall on the UL Lafayette campus.

UL-Lafayette Symphony

The UL Lafayette Symphony Orchestra will present a free concert featuring Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije Suite plus guest string performers on Saturday, February 27, 7:30 PM, in Angelle Hall Auditorium.  Over 100 pre-college string players from throughout Louisiana will join forces with the UL Lafayette Symphony to perform Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.  UL student soloist Caitlin Piercy will also be featured performing Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3. Please join them for this special concert at the School of Music. For more information, please call the UL School of Music at (337) 482-6012.

Introduction

Welcome to Acadiana Music Performances!  This seemed a logical extension of Acadiana Theatre Happenings, but it seems like a much bigger bite.  I definitely an not trying to replace or compete with the invaluable coverage of either the Times of Acadiana or The Independent, but I think that there are a lot of music events in the area that don't receive enough coverage.  That's where this blog will try to help.  Please let me know about your events--the genre doesn't matter.

And let me know where you think this blog should go.