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Greensburg, KY, organist will present noon recital at Ransdell

Dr. James Sperry's program on the Farrand and Votey organ, will include some Bach, some other. A teacher with a PhD from Washington University, Dr. Sperry, and his wife Patsy, live in Greensburg, where they are restoring a Federal Period House

By Ashley Zsedenyi, Campbellsville University writer

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky.- Dr. James Sperry of Greensburg, KY, will perform during the Noon Organ Recital Series at Campbellsville University, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. The event will be in Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville, Ky., at 12:20pmET/11:20amCT. He will play on the university's Farrand and Votey Pipe Organ. The recital is free and open to the public. It will end at 12:50pmET/11:50, in time for those attending to go back to work.



Sperry will be performing "Tiento" by Pablo Bruna, "Prelude and Fugue in C Major" by J. S. Bach, "Two Dances to Agni Yavishta" by Jehan Alain and "Toccata Festiva" by Franklin Ashdown.

Sperry has had a varied career as church musician and college instructor. He has taught organ, music history and theory at Belleville Area College in Illinois, El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso and was head of arts and humanities at Huron College in South Dakota.

During his teaching career, he has held church music positions as organist and director of music. His other performing instrument is harpsichord. He has played with early music groups at the University of Texas at El Paso and in Las Cruces, N.M., and was awarded a performance grant from the South Dakota Arts Council.

Sperry holds degrees from the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Oregon and has a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.

He and his wife, Patsy, now live in Greensburg, KY, where they are restoring a Federal period house.


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Dr. Jim Sperry will present organ recital at Ransdell Chapel



2010-02-26 - Greensburg, KY - Photo Campbellsville University photo. Dr. Jim Sperry, Greensburg, KY, with be the guest organist on the Farrand & Votey Organ at the Noontime Organ Recital at Ransdell Chapel, 401 N. Hoskins AV, Campbellsville, KY, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, starting at 12:20pmET/11:20amCT.
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