Celebrate Mom at Special Mother's Day Concert

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 5, 2016) — Musicians from the University of Kentucky campus community and around the Bluegrass will come together to present a concert celebrating mothers and honoring one with a special appreciation for music this weekend. The 11th annual Anita Roos Baker Memorial Mother’s Day Concert will begin 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 8, at the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Lexington native Anita Roos Baker loved singing. She was a long-time member of the Friends of the UK School of Music, a volunteer organization that provides support and advocacy for the school. Following Baker's death in 2005, her family wanted to find a way to celebrate her life and her passion for music. They have done so through an annual concert, appropriately scheduled for Mother’s Day.

The program this year has been arranged as always by Vocal Coach Tedrin Blair Lindsay of UK Opera Theatre, and will feature soprano and UK alumna Catherine Clarke Nardolillo, soprano and graduate student Elizabeth Mayhew, and cellist and alumna Yoonie Choi. The varied program will include pieces for piano and cello by Johannes Brahms, vocal selections from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's "Camelot" and André Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire," as well as several show tunes by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jeanine Tesori, Stephen Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown. In addition, Lindsay will also perform a couple piano solos sure to delight the audiences.

Baker’s family and friends will be in attendance to honor a very special person with a joyful collection of music. This concert is presented by the Temple Adath Israel Music Fund.

A reception will follow the concert.

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