FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE						May 16, 1995
 
Lawrence Chamber Recital Features Composition Contest Winner
 
	APPLETON, WIS. - The winning work in Lawrence University Conservatory
of Music's first annual composition competition will highlight a recital of
chamber music Tuesday, May 23 at 8 p.m. in Harper Hall of the Music-Drama
Center.  The event is free and open to the public.
	The featured work on the program was written by Lawrence senior Brooke
Joyce, a theory/composition major from the studio of Allen Gimbel.  Joyce's
composition Come up from the fields father, for soprano, flute, clarinet,
cello, and piano, was selected by a panel of judges as the winner of the first
annual Lawrence Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble (LCCME) Composition
Competition.  Sponsored by the LCCME and its artistic director, assistant
professor of music Bridget-Michaele Reischl, the annual competition is open to
current composition students in the conservatory. 
	Also performing on the recital are several student chamber ensembles
specially selected by members of the conservatory faculty.  Works to be
performed include selections by Bartok, Brahms, and Bulla.    
 
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