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Third annual Honor Band Program at DePauw Saturday and Sunday
DePauw University School of Music will host its third annual Honor Band program Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 24-25 at the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts.
The Honor Band, under the baton of DePauw Director of Bands Craig Paré, is a select group of students from 11 Indiana high schools.
The young musicians will travel to the DePauw campus for two days of intensive training prior to a public performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25 in Kresge Auditorium.
Central Indiana schools represented in this year's Honor Band include Cathedral High School, Clay City, Eastern, Edgewood, Greencastle, Lebanon, North Putnam, Pike, Scecina Memorial High School, South Vermillion and Terre Haute North Vigo high schools.
To participate in the annual program, area music directors nominate outstanding students who have excelled in their respective high school bands. As part of their experience, the students will take part in master classes and workshops presented by university's applied music faculty.
DPU music students will also join the high school students, sitting side-by-side with the talented visiting musicians, serving as mentors and co-performers in rehearsals and in the closing concert.
For the performance, the students will prepare one of John Williams most notable compositions, "Olympic Fanfare, "originally heard as the "The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad."
Paré has also included three hymn tunes, "O Magnum Mysterium," by one of America's most frequently performed composers, Morten Lauridsen; "Be Thou My Vision" by Jack Stamp; and Alfred Reed's hymn of praise "Alleluia Laudamus Te."
The lively "La Oreja de Oro" march by San Miguel, arranged by band director Frederick Fennell, and "Big Band Bash," a mashup of popular big band tunes arranged by Bob Lowden, are also on the program, which concludes with one of Henry Fillmore's finest marches, "Americans We."
"I always enjoy this weekend because, like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, we never know just what we'll get," Paré said. "It is a wonderful opportunity to make music as a unique, one-of-a-kind ensemble, coming together for two days of rehearsing and performing. The students we attract are bright, talented, enthusiastic young men and women, and I'm grateful for the support and encouragement they receive both from their families and their respective band directors."
General admission to the DePauw Honor Band concert is $5. Tickets for seniors, children and all students are free.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.depauw.edu/music/tickets, or at the Green Center box office, beginning an hour prior to the Jan. 25 performance. Regular GCPA box office hours will resume Jan. 28.