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    Date: 4/12/99
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   95

SOPRANO TO PRESENT ENCORE! CONCERT AT SLU
     HAMMOND -- Soprano Kathryn George Austin of Baton Rouge, an adjunct member of
the Southeastern Louisiana University music department faculty, will present a recital at 7:30
p.m. April 15 at the Ralph R. Pottle Music Building Auditorium.
     The free recital is part of Southeastern's spring music series, Encore!
     Austin's program will include a concert aria by Mozart and Strauss's "Ophelia Lieder."
She also will perform works by Poulence, Pasatieri, Wolf and Debussy.  
     Austin received her bachelor of music degree at Louisiana College and her master's
degree from the University of North Texas in Denton. She has also pursued doctoral studies at
Louisiana State University.
     She will be accompanied by pianist Richard Beckford, director of choral activities at
Southern University in Baton Rouge. A native of Jamaica, Beckford  received his doctoral degree
in organ performance from LSU.
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