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Benefit Concert Supports Scholarships, ASO

Alma College music faculty and guest artists will perform classical, jazz and contemporary music at the fourth annual Gala Benefit Musicale at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 in the Remick Heritage Center.

The concert benefits music scholarships for Alma College students and the Alma Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are $20 for adults, $5 for seniors 62 and up, and free for Alma College students and youth 18 and under. Seating is reserved. Call (989) 463-7304 for ticket information.

“This will be our fourth annual musicale, and they really are wonderful concerts because Alma music faculty members perform a wide variety of styles of music,” says Murray Gross, faculty director of the Alma Symphony Orchestra. “It’s an enjoyable concert as it gives our students and the whole Alma community the opportunity to hear our faculty perform.”

The musicale will include pieces varying in style from classical to jazz to contemporary music. Performers include Takeshi Abo, the H2 Saxophone Quartet, Anthony Patterson, Randy Westmoreland, the VSM Duo, Dave Zerbe and others.

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In the more than 125 years since its founding, Alma College has stayed true to its roots by keeping its Scottish heritage alive. Today, Alma features a marching band clad in kilts, a Scottish dance troupe, a competitive pipe band and its own tartan. Each year, the College hosts the Alma Highland Festival and Games, which feature traditional Scottish games and revelry.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Andrew Thall
Departments: Mathematics and Computer Science

Dr. Andrew Thall is a man of many talents — as an undergraduate at Kalamazoo College, he majored in mathematics, but was only interested in pure mathematics theory. After college, he worked as a baker, and then in a photo lab, before going back to school part-time.

“When I began my graduate work at Carolina, I happened to wander into the computer science building,” the associate professor of mathematics and computer science says. “This was when they were designing their own graphics supercomputers and just starting to work with virtual reality. It was then I decided to study computers.”