Grand piano present strikes right tinge for UMA Senior College unison series
Classical and ragtime piano unison followed concession rite during Jewett Auditorium on Sunday
AUGUSTA — The University of Maine during Augusta Senior College’s unison array started on a right note this year with a present of a new grand piano to a university.
Pianist Masanobu Ikemiya rehearses Sunday on a grand piano donated to a University of Maine during Augusta by a school’s Senior College. Ikemiya achieved during a unison during Jewett Auditorium during UMA.
Staff print by Andy Molloy
University of Maine during Augusta President Allyson Handley interjection a school’s Senior College after Tom Feagin, a executive during a Senior College, right, donated a piano to a University of Maine during Augusta on Sunday.
Staff print by Andy Molloy
UMA President Allyson Hughes Handley perceived a piano Sunday afternoon on UMA’s interest from Senior College Board of Directors Chairman Tom Feagin. A exemplary and ragtime piano unison followed a ceremony.
Handley pronounced that with a parsimonious university budget, a new piano wasn’t high on a list of priorities. She pronounced a piano will be used for a Senior College’s Concerts during Jewett series, as good as by students and during other university events.
“It will be good used, though also good taken caring of,” she said.
While usurpation a instrument, Handley pronounced she told a assembly of around 100 that a Senior College didn’t need to present a piano for a university to know a college’s value to UMA.
“Nevertheless, a present is song to a ears,” she said, capping off a piano-pun-filled speech.
Feagin pronounced pianist George Lopez told Senior College officials that their aged piano indispensable work after he played during a venue in February.
“The aged piano was kind of aged and kind of shot,” Feagin said.
The Senior College shaped a cabinet to demeanour into a probability of shopping a piano with a supports a college has lifted from tuition, category fees and events, he said.
The 7-foot, 1-inch indication from Hallet, Davis Co. cost some-more than $23,000, according to university orator Bob Stein.
After a presentation, Feagin called pianist Masanobu Ikemiya onto a theatre for a opening of both exemplary and ragtime music.
Ikemiya, who lives in Bar Harbor with his wife, has played concerts all over a world, in both vast and tiny venues, he said.
He has played solo recitals during a Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City and a Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., as good as several gift concerts in Japan for a victims of 2011′s harmful trembler and tsunami.
Ikemiya played during UMA’s Jewett Auditorium dual years ago, so he can demonstrate to a bad peculiarity of a prior piano. He pronounced a new instrument sounds improved than a aged one.
“It has a lovely, pleasing tinge that we like,” he pronounced of a new piano, “a nice, abounding sound.”
Ikemiya pronounced he enjoys personification in Jewett Auditorium since a rising rows of seats concede him to see assembly members’ “smiling faces.”
“Ultimately, song is communication of a heart and, in a end, communication of love,” he said. “With this kind of set-up, it’s really gainful of that.”
Paul Koenig — 621-5663
pkoenig@mainetoday.com
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