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Specially-commissioned work
premiered at Music Study event
In celebration of its 60th
anniversary, Music Study
Club of Metropolitan De-
troit has commissioned
American composer, Ned
Rorem, to write a cello and
piano suite for its Annual
Artist Concert to be held on
May 6, at 3 p.m. at Or-
chestra Hall.
Frederick Moyer
-Frederick Moyer, pianist,
and Jonathan Spitz, cellist,
will premier the work,
"Dances," in addition to
playing the music of Bach,
Beethoven, and
Rachmaninoff.
Moyer, a graduate of Cur-
tis Institute in Philadelphia
and the University of In-
diana, has won numerous
awards, including the 1981
International Piano Record-
ing Competition and was
invited to participate in the
summer-long Marlboro
Music Festival in Ver-
mont. He has performed
with the Philadelphia Or-
chestra, the Minnesota Or-
chestra, the Buffalo
Philharmonic and the Bos-
ton Pops. In 1983 he made a
world tour, concertizing in
Tokyo, Hong Kong, India,
Crete and Greece.
This spring, Moyer will
appear as soloist with the
Boston Symphony under Sir
Colin Davis. In the fall, he
will make a seven-week
tour of Australia at the invi-
tation of the Australian
Broadcasting Commission.
Spitz is a graduate of the
Curtis Institute of Music.
He was the first prize win-
ner in the 1982 Washington
International Competition,
and has performed with or-
chestras in New York,
Philadelphia, Washington
and throughout the eastern
United States.
Spitz has appeared for
two seasons at the Marlboro
Festival in Vermont, has
toured with "Music from
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A musicologist, Prof.
Tickton teaches under-
graduate and graduate
courses in music history and
music literature. During his
47 years, Tickton estimates
he has had about 9,000 stu-
dents in his classes, includ-
ing many who went on to
achieve leading roles in
music, such as George Shir-
ley and Shirley Love of the
Metropolitan Opera, na-
tional recording artist Sally
Terri and Isadore Saslav,
concertmaster of the Balti-
more Symphony. Several
members of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra got
their start with him too.
In addition to his teach-
ing duties at WSU, Tickton
has served as music director
and organist of Temple Beth
El for 51 years and has been
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