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Knox Organist Will Give Concert Tues.Di\ Charles Farley, organist and member of the ffvonUy at Knox College, will j»reisenl a recital at Hie MoiinioulU College AucUlnnum on Tuesday evening, Feb. 18 at 8:In p.m. This will be liis secondroeitaJ in Monmoulh. He Clutpel a (tend a nr c erediDr. Farley was born and grew up in a small town in southwestern Michigan. He began t.he Study or music (piano}ut the a 30. of ftisr. Hi« Hr/et. organ instruction was during bis undergraduate years at Western Michigan University fit Kalamazoo. Ho received a bachelorDr. Charles Farleyplayed here last whiter. I will be given.of music degree, cum Jaude, li*oici that institution in 1955, and a master of arts the f o 1 -lowing year. He then began WOrlc toward the Pli. D. degree in music theory at Florida Stale University at Tallahassee; that degree was awarded him in 1.932.In the summer of 1962 he studied organ and music theory at the summer school for American students in Fontainbleau, France, with Mile. Nadia Boulanger, tile world-famous teacher of such musicians as Leonard Bernstein. Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, and others. He has also studied with Ernst von Dohnanyi and Marilyn Mason,For the past live years Dr. Farley has been on the music faculty a' Knox College. Previously lie taught in California, Florida, and Michigan. Ho has appeared in numerous recitals throughout this country as well as France.Dr. Farley’s recital at M o n-mouth will be entirely devoted to the organ, works of Johann Bach was himself an organist, and the vast amount of music he composed for it constitutes the • heart o£- the organ litera-(Continued on’Page 2)
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Monmouth, Illinois, US
Fri, Feb 14, 1964
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