William Peace University Hosts Third Concert Of Manning Chamber Music Series On March 11
Four-Year Baccalaureate University Holds Final Concert Of The Season In Conjunction With North Carolina Symphony.
- Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC (1888PressRelease) March 01, 2013 - William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that its third Manning Chamber Music Series Concerts of the 2012-2013 season will be held at the Browne McPherson Performing Arts Center on Monday, March 11 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Admission is free to this musical collaboration between the university and the North Carolina Symphony, but reservations are recommended.
A partnership between the university and the North Carolina Symphony, the Manning Chamber Music Series Concert will display some of classical music's greatest masterworks of all time as the concerts 2012-2013 season draws to a close. Members of the North Carolina Symphony are expected to showcase their talents, including individual performances by Chris Caudill, Dovid Friedlander, Jeremy Thompson, David Marschall, Peng Li and Leonid Finkelshteyn. For more information and to make reservations, please visit http://bit.ly/TB1rUr.
The Manning Chamber Music Series Fund was established in 2006 by Sara Jo Allen Manning, a 1958 Peace Prep school graduate and 1960 Peace College graduate, as a gift to the university during its Promise of Peace campaign. Manning has a longstanding record of service to William Peace University, including her participation in the Sesquicentennial Commemoration Committee, the Board of Visitors, the alumni board and her work as a class agent, where she assisted in securing alumnae donations. Civicly minded and deeply rooted in the local community, Manning received the 2008 Distinguished Service Award for her service on the United Arts Council Board of Directors, the North Carolina Prevention of Blindness and her presidential role for the Junior League of Raleigh.
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"The Manning Chamber Music Series performed by the North Carolina Symphony members has been a wonderful gift for the university and our community at large," said Debra M. Townsley, Ph.D., president of William Peace University. "We have greatly appreciated this opportunity to enjoy some of the area's top musical performers as they have performed for our students and the local community. Everyone interested in an evening of great music should make their reservations now for this popular event."
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ABOUT WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY:
William Peace University is located in the heart of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was founded in 1857 as Peace Institute, offering education for boys and girls in primary grades and to women from high school to college. Peace, an all-women's college, became a four-year baccalaureate college and graduated its first bachelor's students in August of 1996. Exclusively an all-women's institution for its first 152 years, Peace began offering coeducational evening courses through the William Peace School of Professional Studies in 2009. In 2011, Peace College transitioned to William Peace University and welcomed its first coeducational class to its day program in fall 2012. Its mission is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. On average, more than 90 percent of the university's graduates are placed in jobs or graduate school within one year of graduation. For more information, please visit http://www.peace.edu.
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