Two East Stroudsburg University student vocalists, Erica Mendez and Rich Hennessy, will present a Junior\/Senior Voice Recital Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall of the University\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The recital, sponsored by the Department of Music, is open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n
The program will feature a mixture of vocal music from classical, contemporary and Broadway repertories.\u00a0 Both Mendez and Hennessy are vocal students of\u00a0 Wendy Grice, adjunct professor of music at ESU.<\/p>\n
Junior Erica Mendez attended the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.\u00a0 A Philadelphia resident, she is majoring in fine arts: music with a concentration in vocal performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At ESU, Mendez has performed with the Concert Choir, in the musical revues Broadway Memories <\/em>and A Grand Night for Singing<\/em>; in Contemporary Dance performances and in several voice recitals.\u00a0 In high school she opened for Aretha Franklin at Robin Hood Dell East; sang the role of Belle in Beauty and the Beast<\/em> in the Philadelphia Recreation Department production; sang the national anthem at Citizens Bank Park for a Phillies game; and was a soloist at a Kimmel Center event.<\/p>\n Senior Rich Hennessy, who will graduate in May, is majoring in business management and minoring in theatre.\u00a0 From Carteret, N. J., he is president of ESU\u2019s Student Senate.<\/p>\n At ESU, Hennessy appeared in the cabaret, From Oldies to Newsies<\/em>, the musical revues Broadway Memories<\/em> and Reel Revue<\/em>, and as Bob Crachit in A Christmas Carol<\/em>.\u00a0 He also appeared in several high school and community theatre productions including The Gondoliers<\/em> and Into the Woods<\/em>.<\/p>\n For more information about the recital, please call the Fine and Performing Arts Events Line at 570-422-3483.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two ESU student vocalists, Erica Mendez and Rich Hennessy, will present a Junior\/Senior Voice Recital. Visit the insider for times and locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","category-theater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}