On Friday, Oct. 4, Marissa Duggan ’24 performed her Minor Honors Recital in Paul Recital Hall at 3 p.m. Duggan is a health sciences major and a music minor who has been involved in a wide variety of productions, concerts and ensembles throughout her time at Gettysburg. The recital hall was filled with a supportive audience of family, friends, faculty and peers who came out to watch Duggan perform this important milestone in her musical journey.
“My favorite part of being a Conservatory music minor student is the ability to participate in several aspects of music including taking voice lessons, participating in opera workshops, singing in choirs and playing the flute in Symphony Band while majoring in Health Sciences,” Duggan said, which demonstrates her commitment and excitement about two distinctly different realms of learning throughout her time at Gettysburg College.
To begin her recital, Duggan sang two contrasting works by Johann Sebastian Bach in German. The first, “Vergnügen und Lust, BWV 197a” was a dance-like cantata accompanied by Professor of Collaborative Piano at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music Dr. Scott Crowne on harpsichord, Lianne Morrell ’25 on violin and Brant Miller ’27 on cello. The second was the recitative originally scored for soprano and trumpet “Wir beten zu dem Tempel an, BWV 51,” which once again was accompanied by Crowne on piano and Miller on cello…