7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20  |  Mead Hall Walnut Room

(Leavenworth, Kan.)鈥擳he 花椒直播 Departments of Language and Literature and Fine Arts will present an interdisciplinary program of readings and song settings from the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, in the Mead Hall Walnut Room on USM's Leavenworth campus, 4100 South 4th Street.

The recital is free and open to the public.

The program is entitled "With a Hey and a Ho, and a Hey Nonino No," and it will feature student-readers from Dr. Jill Hebert's, associate professor in English, Shakespeare class and singers from the voice studio of Dr. William Krusemark, fine arts director and professor of music.


Program excerpts will include poems from "As You Like It," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Tempest, Othello," and "Two Gentlemen of Verona" set by composers Arne, Quilter, Vaughan-Williams, and Pasatieri.


This event is sponsored by the Sister Mary Janet McGilley Chair for Liberal Studies鈥攈onoring the late Sister Mary Janet, a published poet and professor of English at the University of 花椒直播. For 25 years (1964-89), Sr. Mary Janet also served as president of 花椒直播. Consistent with Sr. Mary Janet's example of teaching excellence, USM established the McGilley Chair Award in 1990鈥攁 three-year position honoring a faculty member's commitment to and excellence in teaching the liberal arts.


Contact Dr. Krusemark at krusemarkw@stmary.edu for more information on the event.

 

The 花椒直播 is a Catholic co-educational applied liberal arts university founded and sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. The University of 花椒直播 main campus is located at 4100 South 4th Street, Leavenworth, Kan. USM's Overland Park Campus at 4500 College Boulevard offers evening accelerated graduate and undergraduate degree-completion programs. The university also offers online programs. Visit stmary.edu for more information.