ANN ARBOR—When Soviet Troops invaded Prague, Czechoslovakia, in
Husa will be present for the performance and will give a pre-concert lecture in the Kessler Room of the Michigan League at 7 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

Husa’s appearance in Ann Arbor brings to the University a total of three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers at one time. The other two are William Bolcom of the School of Music faculty and Leslie Bassett, the School’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Music. Bassett will conduct some of his own works Oct. 6 in a concert by Brave New Works in Britton Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Bolcom’s “From the Diary of Sally Hemings” will be a featured event in February as part of the University Musical Society’s 2002 Season.

An American citizen since 1959, Husa, born in Prague in
Since his arrival in the United States in 1954, Husa has written more than 40 compositions, mostly major works covering a vast range. Fully attuned to the world around him, another of Husa’s most popular works is “Apotheosis of This Earth,” a work the composer says “was motivated by the present desperate stage of mankind and its immense problems with everyday killings, war, hunger, extermination of fauna, huge forest fires, and critical contamination of the whole environment.”

The concert of Oct. 11 will also include “La Procession du Rocio” by Turina, “William Byrd Suite” by Jacob, and “Fantasy Variations” by Grantham. Prof. Nancy Ambrose-King will be the featured soloist in “Concertino for Oboe and Chamber Winds” by Von Weber.

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