"Now, Dr. Lawrence Hart, head
of the Music Department at UNC-G,
has presented me with another chal
lenge, and I can't resist this one,
either. He is energetically build
ing up his department and has al
ready made some excellent additions
to the faculty. He believes I can
contribute to that goal; I hope I
can do so.
"One of the attractions of
UNC-G is that it is located in this
beautiful part of the country that I
and my family have grown so attached
to. I shall hope to be able to keep
in touch with my friends at the
School of the Arts‘^‘and in the com
munity of Winston-Salem."
Farrow will teach In the summer ,
session at the School’of the Arts |
from June to August and will assume |
his new duties at UNC-G in Septem- y
ber. No successor has yet. been cho- I
sen, said Ward. ’ I
Before coming to the School; of i
the ^rts, Farrow was, for five |
years*; artist teaQj?er_ and head of I
the Voice Department "atV, Southern 1
Methodist University In Dallas, Tex- |
as. He had also served aS visiting *
professor at the University, of Illi- \
nois at^Urbana. ' V?" f
He lias madeAover '100 appearanc-'^ |
es as soloist in New York's major ;
concert halls’ with the New York {
Philharmonic, the Bach -Aria Group, |
the Little Orchestra Society and si- f
milar^ organizations. He has sung
with most'of the country's symphony
orchestras and in all of the princi- r
pal music festivals. ■' \
Hiis , 18rconcert-.tour with >the
Bach Aria Group this season brought
him to Chapel Hill in December, /aiid^- \
his other engagements’ Yri.''y ,.this ' area ]
Included one with the' Winston-Salem 5
Symphony in October.,,, . \
Next week he will , be heard as 5
soloist in a peipforinancef, of Menot- j
ti's,"Death of the Bishop of Brindi- I
si' at Chapel Hill, and he will give
a recital at the School of the ./ Arts
on May 9. Farrow will continue his
performing career while he is at
UNC-G.
■ He is a native_^ of ’ Canada and
has B.A. and M.A. degrees from the
University of Western Ontario. He
received three fellowships at Jul-
liard Graduate School of Music and
did additional graduate work at New
York University.