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""Simon Estes returns to aid music school""

Simon Estes returns to aid music school

Hancher Circle for the Performing Arts will present bass-baritone Simon Estes in a benefit concert of arias by Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner at 8 p.m. Dec. 3 in Hancher Auditorium.
In his fifth special appearance in Iowa City, Estes will be joined for the first time by the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Sinfonietta, and members of the Stradivari Quartet, under the direction of James Dixon.
As with Estes' 1978 recital, proceeds from the concert will assist the scholarship  fund for the students in the UI school of Music.
The all-Mozart first half of the program, featuring the Sinfonietta with members of the Stradivari Quartet, includes Serenata Notturna, the concert aria Mentra ti lascio, o figlia from La Disfatta Di Dario, in Diesen Heligen Hallen from TheMagic Flute, and Madamina! il catalogo from Don Giovanni.
Estes will be joined by the UI orchestra for the second half of the program, which includes two arias by Verdi -- Il lacerato spirito from Simon Boccanegra' and Ella giamma mamo from Don Carlos -- and Wotan's farewell from Die Walkure by Wagner.
Estes, who is now among the world's premiere operatic performers, was a student at the UI for eight years, studying pre-med, theology and socio-psychology.
Charles Kellis, a voice instructor in the school of music, recognized Estes' talent and worked with the young singer four to five hours per day for over a year. Kelli then organized a fund-raising concert in Iowa City that raised $267 to send Estes to New York for an audition with the Julliard School of Music.
Estes won a year's full scholarship to Julliard and went on to win prizes in the Munich International Vocal Competition in 1965 and the first International Tchaikovsky Vocal Competition in 1966, returning to a command performance at the White House and a reception at New York's City Hall.
In a career that has included over 80 roles with opera companies on four continents, Estes has established a reputation not only as a singer of uncommon beauty, power and range, but as a keen musical interpreter and a fine actor.
In addition to his operatic triumphs, he has appeared with all the world's major symphonies, and in recitals in the United States, Canada, Australia and throughout Europe. In Washington D.C., he sang at the inauguration of the concert hall of the John F. Kennedy Center and later returned as the center's "Celebritiv Series."

Any amount given over the ticket price will constitute a tax-deductable gift to the University of Iowa Foundation to support the School of Music.
Patrons who purchase one or more tickets and and add gift of $25 or more will be invited to a special pot-performance reception honoring Estes Dixon and members of the Stradivari Quartet.All gifts will be recognized by the University of Iowa Foundation through Hancher Circle for the Performing Arts.
The foundation's Simon Estes Fund is already serving as a resource for students in the school of Music. Three of the young musicians who have received financial assistance as a result of the 1978 concert are Shardrick Boone, who last spring became the first black singer to have a leading role in a UI opera, Renata di Pietro and Raleigh Carver Williams.

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Simon Estes returns to aid music school Hancher Circle for the Performing Arts will present bass-baritone Simon Estes in a benefit concert of arias by Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner at 8 p.m. Dec. 3 in Hancher Auditorium. In his fifth special appearance in Iowa City, Estes will be joined for the first time by the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Sinfonietta, and members of the Stradivari Quartet, under the direction of James Dixon. As with Estes' 1978 recital, proceeds from the concert will assist the scholarship fund for the students in the UI school of Music. The all-Mozart first half of the program, featuring the Sinfonietta with members of the Stradivari Quartet, includes Serenata Notturna, the concert aria Mentra ti lascio, o figlia from La Disfatta Di Dario, in Diesen Heligen Hallen from TheMagic Flute, and Madamina! il catalogo from Don Giovanni. Estes will be joined by the UI orchestra for the second half of the program, which includes two arias by Verdi -- Il lacerato spirito from Simon Boccanegra' and Ella giamma mamo from Don Carlos -- and Wotan's farewell from Die Walkure by Wagner. Estes, who is now among the world's premiere operatic performers, was a student at the UI for eight years, studying pre-med, theology and socio-psychology. Charles Kellis, a voice instructor in the school of music, recognized Estes' talent and worked with the young singer four to five hours per day for over a year. Kelli then organized a fund-raising concert in Iowa City that raised $267 to send Estes to New York for an audition with the Julliard School of Music. Estes won a year's full scholarship to Julliard and went on to win prizes in the Munich International Vocal Competition in 1965 and the first International Tchaikovsky Vocal Competition in 1966, returning to a command performance at the White House and a reception at New York's City Hall. In a career that has included over 80 roles with opera companies on four continents, Estes has established a reputation not only as a singer of uncommon beauty, power and range, but as a keen musical interpreter and a fine actor. In addition to his operatic triumphs, he has appeared with all the world's major symphonies, and in recitals in the United States, Canada, Australia and throughout Europe. In Washington D.C., he sang at the inauguration of the concert hall of the John F. Kennedy Center and later returned as the center's "Celebritiv Series." Any amount given over the ticket price will constitute a tax-deductable gift to the University of Iowa Foundation to support the School of Music. Patrons who purchase one or more tickets and and add gift of $25 or more will be invited to a special pot-performance reception honoring Estes Dixon and members of the Stradivari Quartet.All gifts will be recognized by the University of Iowa Foundation through Hancher Circle for the Performing Arts. The foundation's Simon Estes Fund is already serving as a resource for students in the school of Music. Three of the young musicians who have received financial assistance as a result of the 1978 concert are Shardrick Boone, who last spring became the first black singer to have a leading role in a UI opera, Renata di Pietro and Raleigh Carver Williams.