School of Music to present second installment of ‘Chamber Innovista’ concert series

The University of South Carolina’s School of Music will present the second installment of its new spring music series, “Chamber Innovista,” at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in the School of Music recital hall.

The second and final “Chamber Innovista” concert of the 2007 – 08 season features Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” to commemorate the composer’s 100th birthday.

Tickets are $15, $5 for students.

The series follows in the rich tradition of the “Cornelia Freeman September Concert Series” and contributes to the “Live, Work, Learn, and Play” concept of the university’s new research district, Innovista.

“The series is born from the model of the Cornelia Freeman series, and it will be one of the university’s first cultural programs designed for the new employees and residents of the Innovista district,” said Tayloe Harding, dean of the School of Music.

Faculty members Joseph Eller (clarinet), William Terwilliger (vioin), Robert Jesselson (violoncello) and Marina Lomazov (piano) will perform Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.” The concert also will feature Brahms’ “Two Songs for Alto, Viola and Piano, Op. 91” performed by Helen Tintes-Schuermann (contralto), Constance Gee (viola) and Charles Fugo (piano).

For more information, visit the School of Music Web site -- www.music.sc.edu -- or contact Laveta Gibson at 803-777-4336.