EUGENE–The University of Oregon School of Music will open its 1999-2000 concert season with its annual "Faculty Musicale" at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 28, in Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave.

Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens. Proceeds from the concert will go toward music scholarships.

The concert is designed to welcome both new and returning students to the music school and allow them to see and hear a variety of the music faculty in performance.

Included will be selections performed by organist Barbara Baird, pianist Victor Steinhardt, violist Leslie Straka, mezzo-soprano Milagro Vargas, pianist Anne Dhu McLucas and others.

A free reception following the performance will offer students and the public an opportunity to meet informally with the faculty and performers. Light refreshments will be provided.

For more information, call the UO School of Music 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.

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