WILLIAMSPORT — The Lycoming College Women’s and Gender Studies Program will host musician Lauren Pelon in a concert titled, “Women in Music: Someone Shall Remember Us,” 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 in the College’s Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
During the concert, Pelon traces the story of women in music and performs music from around the world. The concert celebrates music written by or for women.
Crossing the boundaries of time, distance and culture, Pelon sings and plays approximately 25 ancient and modern instruments, some of which were traditionally played by women, some forbidden to women.
Pelon, recipient of the 2001 “Artist of the Year” Award from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, studied the history of music and instrumentation both in America and overseas. She has performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts, the Conservatory of Music in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and in concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and China. In her most recent overseas tour, Pelon presented concerts throughout New Zealand and Australia, and gave the 18th Annual Gordon Anderson Memorial Lecture at the University of New England, New South Wales. She has also performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras, and on television and radio specials.
“Women in Music: Someone Will Remember Us” melds Pelon’s original compositions with her arrangements of music from ancient Greece, medieval Europe, and contemporary Africa, America and Estonia. She performs on lute, lyre, hurdy-gurdy, recorders, gemshorn, pennywhistles, ocarina, Kiowa courting flute, eagle bone flute, cornamuse, crumhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, concertina, electric wind instrument and MIDI-pedalboard.
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