Faculty, Students to Present First-ever Bradley Spooktacular

Music faculty and students will share their talents in a Halloween-themed concert on Monday, October 31, at 7:30 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Ave. Admission is free.

This event is the first-ever Bradley Spooktacular! Concertgoers are encouraged to attend in costume.

The program will feature the Hilltop String Quartet performing an arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky’s iconic “Night on Bald Mountain.” Marcia Henry Liebenow and Dr. Chee Hyeon Choi will join for William Bolcom’s “Graceful Ghost Rag,” and Dr. John Jost will lead the Bradley Chamber Singers in selections by Libby Larsen and
Thomas Ravenscroft. Dr. John Orfe, who is organizing the concert, will perform “The Headless Horseman” by American composer Edgar Kelley along with the Horowitz-Liszt transcription of Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre.” Saxophonist and Presser Scholar Matthew Zahner will perform the finale of Bolcom’s “Lilith” with
Orfe.  Dr. Todd Kelly will lead a New Orleans-style jazz combo and be joined by Broadway veteran Susan Somerville Brown of Bradley’s Theatre Department for the song “Defying Gravity” from the musical “Wicked.”

The Bradley Spooktacular is inspired by the success of the 2015 “Bradley Showcase,” which opened the 2015-16 Music Scholarship Concert Series. 

For more information, contact Dr. Orfe at orfe@fsmail.bradley.edu.