Internationally-renowned organist Marilyn Keiser will perform at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3 in Whitley Auditorium on the Elon University campus. Performing with Keiser will be North Carolina Symphony members Mary Boone, flute, and Anita Burroughs-Price, harp.
Keiser is Chancellor’s Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches sacred music and applied organ. In 1998, the IU music department honored her with its teaching excellence recognition award. Keiser has also served as music consultant for the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina and director and organist at All Souls Parish in Asheville from 1970-1983. Keiser graduated summa cum laude from Union Theological Seminary in New York City with a Master of Sacred Music degree. She received her doctorate from Union Theological Seminary in 1967.
Boone is assistant principal for flute in the North Carolina Symphony and holds the Dr. and Mrs. Shaler Stidham, Jr. Chair in the symphony. Burroughs-Price holds the Ron and Jamie Kupferman Chair as the symphony’s only harpist.
Tickets for the performance are $12 or free for those with valid Elon identification. Tickets may be purchased by calling the McCrary Theatre box office at (336) 278-5610. The box office is open 12:30-5 p.m., Monday-Friday.
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