DePauw School of Music Events Week of Feb. 27--March 5

DePauw Recital Hour: Christopher Theofanidis, guest composer

Wednesday, March 1

10:20 a.m.

Green Center, Thompson Recital Hall

DePauw's weekly recital hour features talented School of Music students -- and occasional guests! Join Professor Eliza Brown this week for "A Conversation with Christopher Theofanidis," our Music of the 21st Century guest composer from Yale School of Music. This presentation will also include scenes from his opera Cows of Apollo, performed by students from the School's voice studios, and Flow, my tears for solo violin performed by Mei Fujisato '18.

Jazz at the Duck: Jam Session

Thursday, March 2

8:30--10:30 p.m.

The Fluttering Duck, 2 W. Seminary

Bring your ax or bring your ears for a special evening of open mike jams with the house rhythm section -- Veronica Peril, Bill Hamm and Rick Provine.

Lunch Box Music: "Live Music for Hungry Ears

DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble

Friday, March 3

Noon--1 p.m.

Music on the Square, 21 N. Indiana St.

For this informal program of playing and chatting, members of the DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble -- Anne Reynolds, flute; Leonid Sirotkin, oboe; Randy Salman, clarinet; Kara Stolle, bassoon; Robert Danforth, horn -- will offer a free lunch hour concert for your listening pleasure at M2 in downtown Greencastle. A limited number of box lunches by Bon Appétit

will also be available for purchase at M2.

Music of the 21st Century: Christopher Theofanidis, guest composer

Feb. 27 -- March 3

Thursday, March 2@7:30 p.m. -- Chamber Concert

Friday, March 3@7:30 p.m. -- Gala Closing Concert

Green Center for the Performing Arts

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2564308

Christopher Theofanidis's music -- described by The Boston Globe as "a pageant of orchestral color, some of it deliciously subtle, much of it unabashedly joyful, all of it economical in its use of modal, rhythmic, and timbral resources" -- can be heard in two concerts at the Green Center during DePauw's annual Music of the 21st Century festival. The performance on Thursday, in Thompson Recital Hall, will be dedicated to the composer's chamber music, and Friday's closing concert in Kresge Auditorium will feature works for large ensemble performed by the University's band, choirs and orchestra, including scenes from the opera Heart of a Soldier. This latter work is based on the book of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished DePauw alumnus James B. Stewart '73, who will join Theofanidis on stage for a conversation with the composer during Friday's gala closing concert.

Green Concert: Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Sunday, March 5

7:30 p.m.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2583158

Audiences eager to hear this electrifying ensemble in concert will be rewarded with a glorious, spirit-lifting celebration of sound when four-time Grammy Award-winner Ladysmith Black Mambazo brings the joyous music of South Africa to the Green Center stage -- spreading their message of peace, love and harmony, along with a promise to carry forward founder Joseph Shabalala's dream to "keep South Africa alive in people's hearts" for years to come. "It isn't merely the grace and power of their dancing or the beauty of their singing that rivets the attention," said singer-songwriter Paul Simon, "but the sheer joy and love that emanates from their being."