DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble to perform Thursday

Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Clarinetist Randy Salman, along with the rest of the DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble, will perform in Thompson Recital Hall on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Several chamber works by prominent 20th-century composers will be featured on the DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble's sole recital of the semester on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Green Center's Thompson Recital Hall.

The School's professional chamber ensemble -- comprised of Anne Reynolds, flute; Leonid Sirotkin, oboe; Randy Salman, clarinet; Kara Stolle, bassoon; and Robert Danforth, horn -- will open the concert with a performance of "Sinfonia for Woodwind Quintet" by former Indiana University composer Bernhard Heiden, a student of Paul Hindemith. This work will be followed by English composer Malcolm Arnold's witty and tuneful "Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet."

The group will also perform "Summer Music" -- a widely recorded showcase for winds and a staple of the quintet literature, written by the prolific American composer Samuel Barber. A notoriously challenging piece, "Summer Music" demonstrates Barber's remarkable lyricism and impeccable orchestration technique.

To conclude the program, DePauw faculty pianist May Phang will join the group for a performance of Francis Poulenc's adventurous "Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet."

General admission tickets for the Faculty Select Series are $5. Tickets for seniors, all students and youth 12 years and younger are free thanks to season sponsors Judson and Joyce Green. To ensure that any person wishing to attend a performance is able to do so, a pay-what-you-can option is available, online and on request.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.depauw.edu/music/tickets, stop by or call the GCPA box office at 658-4827.

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