Faculty Favorites Perform for Access to Art, Inc. Oct. 19

CAPE MAY — Romanticism and women, and married musical couples, are on the mind of Dr. Bert Greenspan, and Elise Auerbach for their Oct. 19 concert at Cape Island Baptist Church on Gurney and Columbia Streets at 7 p.m. for Access to Art, Inc. On Oct. l9, Dr. Bert Greenspan, violinist, and Elise Auerbach, pianist, the former an institution at Rowan University from which he recently retired, and the latter, a professor at Temple University will perform a concert on Romanticism. Both performers have performed regularly in Philadelphia for the opera and ballet companies. They will perform works by both Clara Schuman and her husband, and concentrate on other women composers as well. Dr. Greenspan, who taught violin at Rowan, for generations, gave us lectures on the English and Italian Renaissance in music, will begin their concert with Mozart and progress to various women composers including Boulanger, Tailleferre and Beach. After a brief intermission, they plan to play music by Robert and Clara Schuman.
Elise teaches at Temple and performs across Philadelphia. She has also appeared at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, and performs at music festivals across the globe. She has also performed at faculty concerts at Temple, Rowan, and Immaculata Colleges.
Bert Greenspan is currently performing at OperaNaples and in Fort Myers in an orchestra. He received his early training in Chicago and at the Juilliard School of Music under the tutelage of Dorothy Delay and Ivan Galamian and earned his Masters and Doctor of Music Degrees at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where his major teachers were Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet and Janos Starker. He has conducted Youth Orchestras in numerous states from Illinois to Maine including the N.J. All-State High School Orchestra and the NJ Region III High School Orchestra. Among his honors and awards is the gold Medal and Diplome d’Honneur of the Foundation Eugene Ysaye of Brussels, Belgium. Greenspan has performed in Carnegie Hall, Town Hall (NYC) and has served as concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Reading Symphony Orchestra. Most recently he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the American String Teachers Association – NJ Chapter and the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award by Rowan University.
Tickets for the Oct. 19 concert are $20. Adults, and $l5. Seniors. They will be available at the door from 6 p.m. or may be reserved by calling (609) 465-3963.