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Strads
featured at WILL-FM Second Sunday Special
On air broadcast: 7:06 pm Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 500 E. Peabody,
Champaign
 Two violins, a viola and a cello, the only surviving set of
decorated string instruments made by Antonio Stradivarius still
actively performed on today, were featured in a concert by
members of the Smithsonian Chamber Players at 1 pm Sunday,
November 12.
The concert was part of the American Music Month celebration, "An
Illinois Chautauqua: Life Long Learning through the Arts," which
featured an exhibition of the instruments at the art museum and
an evening performance on November 14, at the Krannert
Center for the Performing Arts. On loan from the Smithsonian
Institution, this was the first time that the instruments had
been displayed and performed on in the Midwest.
 Cellist Kenneth Slowik, director of the Smithsonian Chamber
Music Society, hosted the concert, and was joined by violinist
Catherine Manson and violist Steven Dann, to perform works by
Beethoven, Dohnanyi and Mozart.
The concert, in association with the Smithsonian Institution, was
sponsored in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities
Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Illinois
General Assemby, Sheila Johnson and the Chancellor’s Office, the
Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University
of Illinois, Universty Library and Friends, School of Music,
WILL AM-FM-TV, and Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion.
For more information on events for November's American
Music Month celebration, visit
www.library.uiuc.edu/sousa or call (217) 244-9309.
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