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Halloween organ concert tonight

Posted 10/31/00

On Halloween night, Dartmouth College Organist Sherryl Smith-Pond will perform selected "famous scary" pieces in a free concert at 10 p.m. at Rollins Chapel.

The entire Dartmouth Community and the Upper Valley at large is invited. The concert will conclude at 10:30 and candy will be handed out to audience members on their way out.

The works are: "Rhumba" by Robert Elmore, "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Charles Gounod, "Toccata and Fugue in d minor" by J.S. Bach, "Scherzo 'Cats' from American Suite" by Jean Langlais, and "Toccata 'Tu es Petrus'" by Henri Mulet. The brothers of Phi Tau Coeducational Fraternity will decorate the chapel.

Sherryl Smith-Pond has been College Organist since 1985. She has also served as the College's Artist-in-Residence at the Hopkins Center and Senior Lecturer in Music. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, and Israel for major music and organ festivals, conventions, and organ dedications.

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