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'A Piano Extravaganza! Part II' Concert on Oct. 19 to Kick Off Lindsey Wilson University Homecoming Week

Musical event will feature a diverse selection of compositions that range from Rimsky-Korsakov to ABBA.

by Duane Bonifer

COLUMBIA, Ky. (10/07/2025) — A musical cornucopia will open the first homecoming week celebrated at Lindsey Wilson University.

"A Piano Extravaganza! Part II" -- which will feature music from the last 150 years -- will be performed at 2 p.m. CT on Sunday, Oct. 19, in the W.W. Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public, but a goodwill offering will be taken.

Homecoming weekend at Lindsey WIlson dates to the 1930s, but this year's homecoming weekend, which will be Oct. 23-25, will be the first once since the school became Lindsey Wilson University on July 1.

The pieces performed during "A Piano Extravaganza! Part II" will feature as many as four keyboardists, and other pieces will feature three keyboardists and a cellist.

The eclectic and diverse list of compositions to be performed includes Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"; "Mamma Mia," by 1970s Swedish pop supergroup ABBA; George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; the "Jupiter" movement from Gustav Holst's The Planets; and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

The concert will also feature a demonstration of the tango during a performance of one of the pieces.

"We want to highlight compositions from different countries and cultures," said Priscila Dickson, who will be one of the pianists.

The other three musicians who will perform at the Oct. 19 concert include pianist Teresa Tedder of Springfield, Kentucky, pianist and cellist Gabriella Batista of Bardstown, Kentucky, and pianist Clay Smith of Louisville.

Tedder is the full-time conductor of the Mid-Kentucky Chorus. She and Dickson collaborated on the program for the Oct. 19 concert. It follows a previous "Piano Extravaganza!" concert, which was performed in Southcentral Kentucky in October 2023.

"She and I started to talk about a second concert, and we talked about what we would like to play at a second concert," said Dickson. "It really took off from there."

"A Piano Extravaganza! Part II" will be at 2 p.m. CT on Sunday, Oct. 19, in the Lindsey Wilson University W.W. Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public, but a goodwill offering will be taken.

Lindsey Wilson University is a vibrant liberal arts university in Columbia, Kentucky. Founded in 1903 and affiliated with The United Methodist Church, the mission of Lindsey Wilson is to serve the educational needs of students by providing a living-learning environment within an atmosphere of active caring and Christian concern where every student, every day, learns and grows and feels like a real human being. Lindsey Wilson offers 28 undergraduate majors, five graduate programs and a doctoral program. The university's 29 intercollegiate varsity athletic teams have won more than 120 team and individual national championships.

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“A Piano Extravaganza! Part II” will be at 2 p.m. CT on Sunday, Oct. 19, in the Lindsey Wilson University W.W. Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public.

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