Haag to Play Complete Mozart Sonatas

In five recitals, this month and next at the South Bay Center for the Arts, pianist Robert Haag, founder of that performing arts complex at El Camino College, is playing the complete keyboard sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Haag began the cycle Sunday in Campus Theatre at El Camino. Subsequent performances are scheduled at the same hour Oct. 13 and 27, Nov. 10 and 24, all in Campus Theatre.

A graduate of UCLA, Haag has taught at El Camino College since 1955. He became dean of community services in 1967, and served in that impresarial position for 20 years before becoming executive director of the El Camino College Community Foundation.

As a pianist, Haag has performed the complete keyboard works by Beethoven several times, and has also played cycles of the Mozart and Schubert sonatas.

In 1989, as part of a fund-raising effort to purchase a new piano for the college, Haag played all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven in a marathon, 9 1/2-hour performance.

Information: (800) 832-ARTS.