PULLMAN, Wash. — A number of faculty members from the Washington State University School of Music and Theatre Arts will perform at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 in a benefit at the Uniontown St. Boniface Church to help raise money for a new church piano.
Tickets are $15 and are available at Neill Flowers and Gifts in
The concert features a number of acts, including the WSU Madrigal Singers, directed by Lori Wiest; Idaho Washington Concert Chorale, conducted by John Weiss; University of Idaho Vandeleers; the all-female choral group Tapestry; the piano, violin and cello trio of Gerald Berthiaume, Meredith Arksey and Eugene Zenzen, respectively; the Legato String Trio of Ferenc and Marcella Cseszko and Sheila Kilcoyne; Bill and Linda Wharton, cello duet; the Mauchley Duo of Jill Price and Rebecca Hemphill, piano and vocal duet; and Kirstin Malm and Jill Cathey, vocal and oboe duet. Other vocal performers include Jeanne Fairbanks, Nancy Grunewald, Janice O’Toole, Bray Wilkins and a duet by John and Cheryl Weiss.
The concert will help St. Boniface Church purchase an instrument in good condition and of high quality which will benefit all area musicians who currently perform or may want to perform at the church, O’Toole said.
“To “borrow” a piano and have it moved to St. Boniface each time costs a minimum of $400,” O’Toole said. “This is prohibitively expensive for most musicians.”
An historical landmark, St. Boniface Church is the first consecrated Catholic church in the state of
