Graduate students to present recitals

Two Kansas University graduate students will present organ recitals Monday and March 7 at Bales Organ Recital Hall.

Eun Young Cho will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday. She is a student of Michael Bauer.

Joey Ripka will perform at 7:30 p.m. March 7. He is a student of James Higdon.

KU Camerata, a student orchestra ensemble, will perform at 3 p.m. March 13 at Bales Organ Recital Hall. Steven McDonald will conduct the KU Camerata in a performance of music for organ and strings. The program will feature KU organ students Mark Harries, Mi-Young Jin and Geoffrey Ward.

Admission to all events is free.

Dinner theater troupe to perform mystery

Leavenworth Players Group, a professional theater group based in Leavenworth, will return to the Hereford House, 4931 W. Sixth St., to perform “Murder At Paddy Kelly’s Irish Tavern or A Saint Patrick’s Day To Die For.” The show is 6:30 p.m. March 5.

Tickets for the murder mystery are $35 and include a meal.

For more information, call 842-2333.

KU instrumental group to give winter concert

Kansas University’s Instrumental Collegium Musicum will present its winter concert at 7:30 p.m. March 6 at Swarthout Recital Hall.

The concert, under the direction of Paul Laird, is titled “German and Austrian Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries.” It includes seldom-heard works by Isaac Posch, Heinrich Schütz, H. I. F. Biber, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Xaver Richter and Franz Joseph Haydn.

Music by the first two composers will include samples of Posch’s dances and Schütz’s religious music, and the work by Bach will be an aria from his Cantata No. 20.

The Instrumental Collegium Musicum performs on instruments from the period. The ensemble also includes three singers. The concert is free.

For more information, call Laird at 864-9716.

Junior high students to perform next weekend

The West Junior Players will be performing “Jolly Roger and the Pirate Queen” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Sally Six Hersh Auditorium at West Junior High, 2700 Harvard Road.

The production is a hilarious adventure yarn that includes professionally choreographed fight scenes and elaborate costumes.

Tickets are $3 at the door.