Knox in the News

Bruce Polay, Knox College professor and chair of music and artistic director/conductor of the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, and Sarah Moran, lecturer in music at Knox, will present a lecture/performance, “Two Songs on Texts of Robert Frost by Bruce Polay” at 4 p.m. Friday in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts.Polay and Moran will perform and discuss the composition, text, and interpretive features of recently completed songs by Polay, based on Frost’s poems “The Lockless Door” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Polay has taught at Knox and directed the Knox-Galesburg Symphony since 1983. He has composed works for orchestra, voice, organ, brass, violin and chamber ensemble. He has received numerous composition honors, including Rudolf Nissim Composition Competition and ASCAP/Plus Awards. He also has won Cultural Leadership and Conductor of the Year awards from the Illinois Council of Orchestras.

Moran teaches voice and opera workshop at Knox. She has performed operatic roles with Opera Pacifica, the Tacoma Opera and Opera Quad Cities. She also has performed as a soloist with the Galesburg Community Chorus and the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra. Earlier this fall, Moran was a soloist for the Nova Singers’ performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass.

She will perform with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Orpheum Theatre.