IUP Department of Music faculty member Raquel Winnica Young will perform a concert as a member of Alabaster Trio this Sunday, November 1, at 2:30 p.m. The concert will be held at the historic Mishler Theatre in Altoona, Pa. It will also be live-streamed, and may be accessed by visiting the .
Alabaster Trio is a Pittsburgh-based trio composed of Raquel Winnica Young (mezzosoprano), Lenny Young (oboe), and Jack Kurutz (piano). The trio is a recent winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society.
Alabaster Trio is presenting a program called Revelations, featuring music from four centuries. The inspiration for this program is Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky's Two Holy Sonnets of John Donne.
The full concert program includes:
- Georg Frideric Handel - "Fra Tempeste" from Rodelinda
- Robert Schumann -- Adagio and Allegro
- Antonio Vivaldi - "i sento, si, ti sento" from Teuzzone
- Handel - "Furibondo spira il vento" from Partenope
- Jules Massenet - Elegie
- Sergei Rachmaninov - Etude-Tableaux Op.39 No.5 in E-flat Minor
- Steven Stucky - Two Holy Sonnets of Donn
- JS Bach - "Sei bemht in dieser Zeit," from Barmherziges Herz der ewigen Liebe
- Astor Piazzolla - Pigmalion
- Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion
- Astor Piazzolla - Balada Para un Loco