FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 04/18/2008

Bridgewater College Music Majors To Give Recital

BRIDGEWATER, Va. — Meredith Ann Crawford, a music major from Crozet, Va., will present a senior recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in the Carter Center for Worship and Music.

The evening recital also includes Lindsay M. Snyder, a music major from McGaheysville, Va., in a junior soprano voice recital.

For her mezzo-soprano voice recital, Crawford will perform "Come Again, Sweet Love" by John Dowland, "Come away, Death" by Gerald Finzi and "Speak, Music" by Edward Elgar. She also will sing "Apres un Rêve" and "Mandoline" by Gabriel Fauré and "Faites-lui mes aveu" from Faust by Charles-Francois Gounod.

In addition, Crawford will perform "Two Songs for Contralto and Viola Opus 91," "Gestillte Sehnsucht" and "Geistliches Wiegenlied" by Johannes Brahms. Becky Hunter, a musician from Harrisonburg, Va., will accompany Crawford on the viola for this part of the recital.

For her soprano voice recital, Snyder will perform "Breit uber mein Haupt" by Richard Strauss, "Lydia" by Fauré and "Aria di Vagante" from Judith Triumphans by Antonio Vivaldi. She also will sing "Com'é bello" from Lucrezia Borgia by Geatano Donizetti.

Crawford and Snyder will perform a duet, "ah guarda sorella!" from Cosi fan tutti by W. A. Mozart.

Both musicians study voice under Joyce Wead, adjunct instructor of music, and will be accompanied on piano by Mary Beth Flory, also an adjunct instructor of music at Bridgewater.

At Bridgewater, Crawford is a member of the Chorale, the Concert Choir and the Oratorio Choir. She serves as vice president of the campus chapter of Music Educators National Conference. Snyder is a member of the varsity lacrosse team.

The recital is free and open to the public.

Bridgewater College, a private, four-year liberal arts college, enrolls more than 1,500 students. Founded in 1880 and located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it was the state's first private, coeducational senior college.

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