Senior Recital: Teng Jian Khoo '09, violin

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College Department of Music will present a Senior Recital featuring Teng Jian Khoo, violin on Saturday, May 2, at 5 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall.

This free event is open to the public.

Khoo will be playing The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams, Poème, opus 25 by Chausson, and Sonata for Violin and Piano, opus 9 by Szymanowski. He will be accompanied by Tiffany Yu '09 and Noah Lindquist '08.

A resident of Penang, Malaysia, Teng Jian Khoo ’09 began playing the violin at age 10, after an abortive attempt to learn the piano. His first teacher was Lo Mei Yoke, concertmistress of the Penang State Symphony Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, Teng Jian has performed in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia, most notably joining the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra in 2004. He is currently a student of Joanna Kurkowicz.

At Williams, Teng Jian has at various times been a member of the Berkshire Symphony, Symphonic Winds and Percussion Ensemble. In addition, he conducts the Student Symphony. A Physics major who has dabbled in Math, History and Chinese, he plans to pursue a PhD. in Physics next year.

Besides his musical exploits, Teng Jian is an avid fencer, cook and cat-lover.


Senior Recital: Kenny Taubenslag '09, piano

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College Department of Music will present a Senior Recital featuring Kenny Taubenslag '09, piano, on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus.

This free event is open to the public.

Taubenslag will be playing Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, K. 511; Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5, opus 53; and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, opus 58. He will be accompanied by Elizabeth Wright.

Kenny Taubenslag is native of Morgantown, WV. He started playing the piano at the age of thirteen and is now a student of Elizabeth Wright. Majoring in English and chemistry, he will read for an MPhil in English next year at Cambridge. His is a member of the tennis team and enjoys skiing and nature photography.
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Multiple Departments Respond to Lanesborough Structure Fire

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Multiple fire departments responded to a structure fire off Narragansett Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. 

The Fire Department received a call from the owner of 6 Bangor St. reporting a smoke and flames at around 1:44 p.m.

Firefighters arriving on scene reported heavy smoke emanating from the the 1940s single-family ranch home in the thickly settle neighborhood.

The blaze was brought under control in less than an hour and there were no civilian or firefighter injuries. 

"The homeowner was outside doing some work, evidently, opened the door when she came back in the house, and there were flames and smoke, so she backed out and called us, and that's all we know right now," Deputy Fire Chief Glen Storie said around 2:35 p.m. 

The fire was out at that time, and first responders observed "quite a bit of damage" to the home. The cause is still under investigation. 

Lanesborough, Cheshire, and Pittsfield departments responded to the scene, and Hancock covered the station during the call. 

"The first crew in knocked the fire right down with the first engine," Storie said. 

Smoke could be seen coming from the back of the home. Part of Narragansett Avenue and Bangor Avenue were blocked off while firefighters battled the blaze. 

 

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