7:30 p.m.
Concert Hall, Spears Music/Art Center
free admission
 
Dr. Gregory Pepetone

Artist, thinker and believer Dr. Gregory Pepetone is Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Author of Gothic Perspectives on the American Experience (Peter Lang Press, 2003) and contributor to many books dealing with religious issues such as Religion and Alcohol (Peter Lang Press, 2004) and The Gospel According to Super Heroes:  Religion and Popular Culture (Peter Lang Press, 2005), Pepetone has long been interested in the relationship between religion, popular culture and artistic vocation
 
Pepetone has also taught in London England, the American Midwest and at Goddard College in Vermont. Growing up in Las Vegas in the 1950s caught between the glitz of the strip and the teaching of a strict Baptist grandfather, Pepetone was recognized by Leonard Bernstein as an extraordinary talent and sent away to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy. His education was to ultimately include a doctorate in music from the University of Iowa and a year of study at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. Not surprisingly, his teachings and writings range over a broad spectrum of disciplines including music, film, religion, philosophy, politics and popular culture.