DePauw School of Music events for Sept. 7-13

DePauw School of Music Events

Week of Sept. 7-13

Student Recital Hour

Wednesday, Sept. 9

10:20 a.m.

Green Center, Thompson Recital Hall

DePauw's weekly recital hour features talented School of Music students -- and occasional guests. This week includes a sneak preview by members of A Far Cry, recipient of Boston Magazine's 2015 "Best of Boston" Award and the first Green Guest Artists of the season.

ArtMusic@Almost Home

Wednesday, Sept. 9

6--7 p.m.

Almost Home Restaurant, 17 W. Franklin St., Greencastle

Feeding the need for good music and good food, sophomore violinist Alec Barker serves up country and bluegrass tunes with your strawberry pizza.

Storytellers at M2: A Far Cry

Wednesday, Sept. 9

7--8:30 p.m.

Music on the Square, 21 N. Indiana St.

Music on the Square presents an intimate evening of couragous music-making and a glimpse into the minds of the most compelling music-makers of our time.

Faculty Select Series: Saxophonists Scotty Stepp, Paul Bro and Friends

Thursday, Sept. 10

7:30 p.m.

Green Center, Thompson Recital Hall

Opening the Faculty Select Series is saxophonist and DePauw faculty member Scotty Stepp and guest artist Paul Bro, who will perform -- along with a few of their talented colleagues -- music from David Maslanka's hauntingly beautiful Out of This World, with cellist Kurt Fowler and pianist Martha Krasnican; Takashi Yoshimatsu's Fuzzy Bird Sonata; Links Two by Dan Powers, composer-in-residence with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra; and duets by Juan Ruiz. Solaire Saxophone Quartet then shares the stage with Sam Fritz and Erika (Matson) Stepp '13, on tenor and bari sax, as they close the concert with The Mechanics by Carter Pann.

Green Guest Artist Concert: A Far Cry

Friday, Sept. 11

7:30 p.m.

Green Center, Kresge Auditorium

At the forefront of a new generation in classical music, the Grammy-nominated, self-conducted orchestra A Far Cry "brims with personality," according to The New York Times. The ensemble's latest album, Law of Mosaics from its in-house label Crier Records, earned a place on The New Yorker's Top-10 list of "Notable Recordings of 2014" and praise from WQXR, which named the group one of its "Imagination-Grabbing, Trailblazing Artists of 2014."