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USM Celebrates Marjorie Ryerson’s Book “Water Music” with Exhibition and Reception

March 30, 2007

Contact:  Zip Kellogg, Reference Librarian, 780-5661, zkellogg@usm.maine.edu

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Vermont writer, photographer and educator Marjorie Ryerson will be at a USM Glickman Family Library Earth Day event at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 19, in the University Events Room. Designed to celebrate her book “Water Music,” the evening will feature comments by Ryerson, who will speak about the book and the Water Music Project, which she manages.

A woodwind trio composed of bassoonist Wren Saunders, flutist Nicole Rabata, and clarinetist Kristen Thinkbeiner will perform music on the themes of water and the environment. A selection of Ryerson’s photographs will be on display in the Library’s UnumProvident Great Reading Room located on the 7th Floor until Tuesday, May 15.

This event, planned to fall during the week of Earth Day, is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.  For more information, please call USM’s Glickman Family Library, at 780-4790.

“Water Music” is a coffee table-sized book that brings together the photographs of Marjorie Ryerson with the writing of more than 60 musicians, among them Paul Winter, Bobby McFerrin, Taj Mahal, Pete Seeger, Keb’ Mo’, Dave Brubeck, Kenny Loggins, Micky Hart, George Winston, and Emanual Ax. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event

Royalties from sales of the book go to the Water Music Fund, established at Ryerson’s request by the United Nations Foundation. The UN’s Water Music Fund protects and restores water resources and provides clean drinking water worldwide.

For more information about Ryerson’s book, and the Water Music Project see http://www.watermusicproject.com/.

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