New grand piano to be named after Brandon Conservatory Chorale founder Elizabeth Grant
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The Brandon University School of Music and Brandon Conservatory Chorale are raising funds for a new grand piano named after Elizabeth Grant.
Grant founded the chorale in 1981 and was honoured last month at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium for a reunion concert.
At a cost of approximately $158,000, the new Steinway & Sons Model B piano will be nearly seven feet in length, weigh 760 pounds and hold more than 39,000 pounds of tension in the strings. It will be installed in the R. D. Bell Hall.
“Instruments definitely have personalities, so it is only natural that we also give them names,” said BU dean of music Greg Gatien in a news release.
“The opportunity to name a premiere new Steinway grand piano after Elizabeth Grant is truly fitting. Both are inspiring figures, perfectly at home on the biggest of stages, and devoted to bringing out top musicianship in others.”
A portion of the piano’s costs will be raised through a sponsorship of individual keys.
Thirty-two of the piano’s 88 keys have been pledged at $900 a piece, including all of the A keys.
For more information or to sponsor one of the remaining 56 keys, contact the BU Office of Advancement at 204-727-7374 or 1-877-282-4483.
Donations may be made online at brandonu.ca/give, by mail or in person to Brandon University Foundation, 270 18th St., Brandon, MB R7A 6A9. All donations are tax-deductible.
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