Assad Guitar Duo Visits College
	The Ithaca College concert season continues on Friday, February 13, with a performance by one of the world's foremost guitar duos, Sergio and Odair Assad. Scheduled for 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall Auditorium, the concert is the latest installment in a concert series entitled "It's All Relative." Natives of Brazil, the Assad brothers have been credited with reviving contemporary music for the guitar. They have recorded more than 10 compact discs, and their 1994 recording, The Assad's Baroque, received widespread acclaim. Their 1996 release, Saga dos Migrantes, was a New York Times Critic's Choice selection. The Assads' international career began with a major prize at the Rostrum of Young Interpreters in Bratislava, former Czechoslovakia, in 1979. Presently based in Europe, the brothers perform often in recital and with orchestras in France, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece, as well as Australia, Israel, the Far East, and North and Latin America. Their 1996-97 season also included engagements all across the United States. Aside from their duo recitals and appearances with orchestras, the Assads have been collaborating with such artists as Dawn Upshaw, Gidon Kramer, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Yo-Yo Ma. In Ithaca, the Assads' program will include works by Gershwin, Gismonti, Giuliani, Milhaud, Nazareth, Piazzolla, Riley, and Scarlatti. A pre-concert lecture by School of Music faculty member Pablo Cohen will begin at 7:30 p.m. in room 201, Ford Hall. Tickets are $8 for children, senior citizens, and Ithaca College students; $14 for Ithaca College alumni, Friends of Ithaca College, faculty, staff, administrators, and other students; and $16 for the general public. Tickets go on sale January 30 at the Ticket Center at Clinton House and Rebop Records, Tapes, and Compact Discs in Collegetown. For more information, please call the Ithaca College School of Music at (607) 274-3171.