Pianist Dave Marck and Friends to Present Free Concert "Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Rodgers and Hammerstein" Sept. 15

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Sept. 2, 2021

Contact Anthony Slaby at 608-796-3042 or aaslaby@viterbo.edu

PIANIST DAVE MARCK AND FRIENDS TO PRESENT FREE CONCERT SOME ENCHANTED EVENING: CELEBRATING RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN SEPT. 15

LA CROSSE, Wis. – Enjoy selections such as My Favorite ThingsHello Young Lovers, and other classics as New York pianist and La Crosse native Dave Marck presents the free concert Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Rodgers and Hammerstein at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15 in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.

Marck will be joined by longtime colleagues Greg Balfany on saxophone, Karyn Quinn on bass, and Rich MacDonald on drums. Balfany and Quinn retired from the music department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. MacDonald teaches percussion and is director of jazz studies at Winona State University.

“Rodgers and Hammerstein were selected as the theme for this year’s concert as a follow up to a performance we did two years ago,” Marck said. “Richard Rodgers was such a prolific and incomparable composer one show of his work was not enough.”

Marck spends much of the year in New York, where he is an acclaimed jazz pianist. He returns to La Crosse each year to visit friends and family and to perform in the area.

The concert is sponsored by the Bob and Jean Marck Family Gift of Music and the La Crosse Community Foundation Ambrosius Fund. The Marck Family Gift of Music was created in memory of Marck’s parents, Bob and Jean, to support free, live music events in the community. Marck looks forward to carrying on his parents’ goal of making community connections while having a great deal of fun.

Doors will open at 7 p.m., and seating is first-come, first-served. Masks are required to be worn by audience members. For more information, call the Viterbo Box Office at 608-796-3100.

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