Westminster College to Dedicate Steinway Piano with Recital

Westminster College will dedicate a new Steinway piano with a recital by Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, chair of the music department, Sunday, Sept. 19, at 3 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.

 The model "D" concert grand Steinway, the largest piano that Steinway makes, was given by the extended Mansell family in memory of Margaret Louise Young Mansell.  Margaret and her husband, Thomas V. Mansell, are both 1929 Westminster College graduates and long-time New Wilmington residents.

 The concert will begin with the Haydn's "Sonata in G Major," followed by Beethoven's "Sonata #26, Opus 81a."  After a brief intermission, DeSalvo will continue with Rachmanioff's Etudes 2, 6 and 7 from "Etudes-Tableaus, Opus 33," followed by Chopin's "Barcorolle, Opus 60," and concluding with Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody #2." 

The piano will be permanently housed in Orr Auditorium, where it will be used by piano majors giving formal senior recitals and by Department of Music faculty and guest artists performing in solo and duo recitals.

For more information, contact DeSalvo at (724) 946-7023 or e-mail desalvnj@westminster.edu or Dr. Grover Pitman, coordinator of the event and professor of music, at (724) 946-7274 or e-mail pitmanga@westminster.edu.

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