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By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS
Saturday evening, April 16 at the District 5 Fine Arts Center will be the first “District 5 Alumni and Friends” Concert and will feature two internationally acclaimed musicians in order to raise scholarship money for District 5 Band students.
It will be an evening of piano and voice featuring the bass-baritone voice of John Cheek, who has performed in the top musical venues around the world and was hailed as “one of the most accomplished singers of our time,” by The New York Times.
Taken into the fold of the Metropolitan Opera before the age of 30, John Cheek has performed with every major American orchestra and in every major concert hall throughout the world.
His accompanist — remarkably, who is also named John Cheek — is a globetrotting, internationally distinguished pianist who made his professional debut with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13. He has been a top prizewinner in several important national and international music competitions including the honor of being the highest-ranking American in the 1986 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition held in Budapest, Hungary.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Middle Tyger Times.
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