DePauw Chamber Symphony to present pre-tour concert on Tuesday

Friday, January 2, 2015
The DePauw Chamber Symphony, directed by Orcenith Smith, will present its Winter Term 2015 pre-tour concert on Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium of the Green Center for the Performing Arts.

Prior to departing on a 10-day European tour of Germany and Austria, the DePauw University Chamber Symphony will present a pre-tour concert in Greencastle with faculty soloist Nicole Brockmann.

The performance, conducted by Orcenith Smith, will be given at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6 in the Green Center's Kresge Auditorium.

Included on the 33-member Chamber Symphony's six-stop concert tour are two celebrated venues where audiences have heard performances by some of the greatest musicians through history -- Salzburg's famed music conservatory, the Mozarteum, and the newly refurbished Brahms-Saal in Vienna's Musikverein.

"We are fortunate to be included in the concert series of these prestigious producers," Smith, music director of the DePauw Orchestra, said. "Over our many previous tours we have proven ourselves to have performed at a high level and to have also created winning programs of real interest to the audiences."

Works to be performed on the upcoming 2015 Winter Term tour include:

-- "Ulysses Awakes" by English composer John Woolrich, featuring faculty violist Brockmann.

-- A newly published work for orchestra by Indiana jazz violinist, Cathy Morris, titled "Watch Out!"

-- Antonin Dvorák's "American Suite" from DePauw's "Dvorák and America" Festival, sponsored, in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

-- "Symphony No. 95 in C Minor" by Austrian composer Franz Josef Haydn.

-- Two "Hungarian Dances" by Johannes Brahms.

-- A polka schnell, "Auf der Jagd," by Johann Strauss II.

Since 1975, the student members of the DePauw Chamber Symphony have focused their January Winter Term on preparing and performing major concert tours, winning over audiences with high technical standards, unique programming and passionate playing.

The intensity of the program, combined with the cultural exchange of touring to celebrated venues in Japan, Great Britain, Spain, France, New York City and Washington D.C., has been described as life-changing by many of the students involved.

Admission to the pre-tour concert on Tuesday evening is free.

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