EUGENE–A recital featuring a faculty violinist and a guest artist lecture-demonstration about the South’s sacred harp tradition are scheduled this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

For more information, call the music school weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a 24-hours-a-day taped message of the week’s events.

Tim Eriksen, a music educator at Dartmouth and a national figure in the area of sacred harps, will be the guest speaker at the School of Music’s Student Forum series. The free presentation, titled "What on Earth is Sacred Harp?" begins at 1 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall,
961 E. 18th Ave.

Eriksen will discuss, perform and invite selected members of the audience to play music of the sacred harp tradition from the American South.

Chair of the 1999 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, Eriksen has taught shape-note singing at various schools, is a versatile instrumentalist, and has worked on numerous CDs of folk, gospel, ethnic and traditional/popular music. He has appeared in concert with Doc Watson, Nirvana, Weezer, Mike Seeger and a long list of other luminaries in the folk and rock music worlds.

Violinist Kathryn Lucktenberg and pianist Mary Elizabeth Parker will give a Faculty Artist Series recital at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

The program includes Bartok’s "First Rhapsody for Violin and Piano"; Henry Cowell’s "Set of Five," also featuring percussionist Brian Scott; and a pair of solo violin works, "Come Long Fiddler" written by jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and "Appalachia Waltz" by renowned fiddle virtuoso Mark O’Connor.

The concert will conclude with Stravinsky’s acclaimed "L’Histoire du Soldat" (A Soldier’s Tale), with clarinetist Wayne Bennett joining Lucktenberg and Parker.

Lucktenberg, who has been on the UO music faculty since 1993, earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1979, she made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and, within a year after graduation from Curtis, she joined the Honolulu Symphony as concertmaster. During her 11 years in Hawaii, she also was a member of the Honolulu Symphony String Quartet and served on the faculty at the University of Hawaii. At Oregon, she performs regularly with two faculty ensembles, the Oregon String Quartet and Trio Pacifica.

Parker has a master’s and doctoral degrees in piano performance from the University of Texas. She has been active as a performer, teacher, clinician and adjudicator, and was named Outstanding Pre-Collegiate Teacher of 1993 by the Austin Music Teachers Association. Parker is a member of the piano faculty at Lane Community College and also maintains a private piano studio in Eugene. She has performed with the Oregon Mozart Players and Eugene Symphony, and often collaborates with pianists Christine Mirabella and Victor Steinhardt.

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