Oyaguez: Music as a way to know the world
Spanish pianist Alfredo Oyaguez Montero is grateful that his mother made him study piano as a child. He's joining the Sitka Summer Music Festival Fall Classics series as a guest artist. He'll be performing on a 100-year old Steinway at St. Peters-by-the-Sea at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 5.
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Stevenson Hall, as it appears in the Historic American Building Survey.[/caption]Kayla Boettcher, executive director of the Sitka Summer Music Festival, reports on her organization's receipt of a $260,000 grant from the Murdock Charitable Trust, which will allow for the purchase of the festival's headquarters at Stevenson Hall. The Murdock Trust, plus a number of individual funders, contributed a total of $530,000 in capital funding, some of which will be used toward repairs of the historic building.
