DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble to perform Thursday
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.