STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State University’s Wind Ensemble presents its fall concert, “Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the auditorium of the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center in Stephenville. Admission is $5 or free with a Tarleton ID.
Music Professor Leslie Spotz, coordinator of the piano area at Tarleton, will perform George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” for solo piano and wind ensemble, as arranged by Donald Hunsberger.
Other concert works will include “The Blessing of Light” by Australian composer Jodie Blackshaw, “Mavericks” by Paul Dooley, and “Variations on a Korean Folk Song” by John Barnes Chance.
Dr. Spotz received the 2017 Texas Music Teachers Association Outstanding Collegiate Teaching Achievement Award and also that year won the Tarleton State College of Liberal and Fine Arts Faculty Excellence in Research and Creative Activities Award.
She enjoys an international performing career that spans four continents and four decades and has included solo performances at Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow University; the South Bank Center of London; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; and the famed Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
Her concert tours of Germany have been widely acclaimed, as have concerts in Italy at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute, solo recitals in Taiwan and Brazil, and her performance at the opening of the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia’s magnificent performance venue.
A founding member of The Texas A&M System, Tarleton State University is breaking records — in enrollment, research, scholarship, athletics, philanthropy and engagement — while transforming the lives of approximately 18,000 students in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Bryan and online. For 125 years, Tarleton State has been committed to accessible higher education opportunities for all while helping students grow academically, socially and professionally through programs that emphasize real world learning and address regional, state and national needs.