School of Music guest artist to explore American traditions

The Caribbean, Britain, Ivory Coast and beyond: All aboard for pianist Donna Coleman’s “Celestial Railroad 2005” concert on Friday, Nov. 4, at UW–Madison.

Coleman directs keyboard at the University of Melbourne and is one of the School of Music’s guest artists this fall. Her concert will include music from minstrel stages and camp meeting fields of the United States spanning the years between 1830-1920.

Her program includes works by Gottschalk, Joplin and Grainger and concludes with “Piano Sonata No. 1” by Ives.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Mills Hall, Mosse Humanities Building. For more information, call the Concert Line at 263-9485.

Coleman also will lecture on “Havana to Harlem” at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3, in 2441 Mosse Humanities Building. Both the lecture and the concert are free and open to the public.