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Keyboard Music at UD

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The University r! Dayton News Release KEYBOARD MUSIC AT UD

DAYTON, Ohio, October 26, 1981 The university of Dayton music

division will present two concerts which will feature the complete Well-Tempered

Clavier, Book I, of Johann Sebastian Bach. The two recitals will be on

successive Tuesdays, November 10 and 17, at 8 p.m. in the UD Chapel. The concerts

will feature Julane Rodgers, Martha Folts, and Nina Johnson, who will perform

on two harpsichords and a clavichord. The concerts are free and open to the

public.

According to Julane Rodgers the Well-Tempered Clavier is one of Bach's

most important sets of keyboard compositions. Rodgers holds the DMA degree

from the University of Oregon. She has studied with the internationally known

harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, Alan CUrtis, and John Hamilton. She has done

extensive research in the area of early fingering practices. She is the harpsi-

chordist for the Dayton Bach Society, and is a member of the music faculty at

t,qright State University.

Nina Johnson and Martha Folts are Cincinnati harpsichordi sts. Johnson is

a pupil of Gustav Leonhardt, with whom she studied for two years on a Fulbright grant.

She has performed throughout the Midwest as a soloist and continuo player, and is

president of the Cincinnati-Dayton Historic Keyboard Society.

Martha Folts has ~~udied at Syracuse University and the New England Conser-

vatory, and has taught at Iowa State University. Currently she is a faculty member

at Miami University in Oxford. She has recorded for the Musical Heritage Society

and Delos labels.

As a part of the program, James Campbell, harpsichord builder, will qive a

brief explanation of tuning systems used on the instruments for the performances.

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