Final Faculty Select Series concert set Tuesday at DePauw

Monday, April 22, 2013

The sonorous sound of horns will fill the DePauw University School of Music when an unusual convergence of four major symphony horn players occurs on at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Ohio State music faculty member Bruce Henniss, formerly of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, will join Richard Graef, Jerry Montgomery and Robert Danforth of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on a stellar program of music for brass winds Tuesday night in Thompson Recital Hall of the Green Center for the Performing Arts.

The concert, which is the final event in the school's 2012-13 Faculty Select Series, will begin with solo works by Beethoven, Doug Hill, C. D. Lorenz and Alec Wilder, after which the soloists will perform together as a quartet.

Included on the closing set is a beautiful canon arrangement of "Dona Nobis Pacem" and the brilliantly written "Pilgrim's Chorus" from Wagner's "Tannhäuser."

"On the'Tannhäuser' arrangement, Rick Graef will play the lead part on Wagner tuba, which I think will be neat for the audience to hear," said Danforth, horn professor at DePauw, "and we will end with 'Frippery No. 11' by Lowell Shaw, which is one of my favorites."

After the performance, Bruce Henniss will lead a master class for music students. Both the concert and master class are open to the public.

Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Henniss was a member of the Houston Symphony for 12 seasons. He also has performed, recorded or toured with include the Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Montreal Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Columbus Symphony, ProMusica Chamber orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony and the Honolulu Symphony.

Henniss has served on the faculties of Rice University, the University of Houston, and the Interlochen Arts Academy, as well as the Interlochen Summer Music Camp, where he is currently a faculty member.

General admission tickets to Faculty Select concerts are $5-7; tickets for all students, children, and seniors over 65 are free.

For additional information or assistance, stop by the GCPA box office on the ground floor of the Green Center at 605 S. College Ave., visit www.depauw.edu /music/tickets; or call 658-4817.

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