DePauw School of Music events Sept. 21-27

Friday, September 18, 2015

DePauw School of Music Events

Week of Sept. 21-27

Student Recital Hour

Wednesday, Sept. 23

10:20 a.m.--12:20 p.m.

Green Center, Rms. 1029 and 1115

This week's recital hour will include presentations by neuromusculoskeletal specialist Rachel Gates and by Stasia Siena, a teacher of the Alexander Technique. Both presentations will be offered in both spaces with the speakers switching rooms at the meal break. A free pizza lunch will also be provided.

ArtMusic@AlmostHome

Wednesday, Sept. 23

6 p.m.

Almost Home Restaurant, 17 W. Franklin St.

First-year student Roland Ferrer brings the beauty of the harp right to your dinner table.

DePauw University Choirs

--Kristina Boerger, director

"Flora and Fauna"

Sunday, Sept. 27

3 p.m.

Green Center, Kresge Auditorium

The DePauw Choirs' opening concert includes music in a variety of regional and temporal styles, all inspired by poetry on images of flowers and animals. The cornerstone of the program will be Benjamin Britten's beloved cantata, "Rejoice in the Lamb," featuring the combined choirs and University organist Carla Edwards. The text for this work is by the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart, who penned his verses while confined in an insane asylum. His poem protests his mistreatment but also catalogs the animistic presence of the Divine in every perceptible aspect of life on earth--down even to the brave, little mouse or to the root that sustains the flower. The rest of the concert will feature life of all kinds as heard in Elizabethan madrigal, 20th-century part-song, African-American liturgical anthem, traditional Corsican Mass, South African polyphony or Beatles hit. As a special attraction, faculty artists Caroline Smith, mezzo-soprano, and Amanda Hopson, piano, will perform Francis Poulenc's "Le Bestiaire," a whimsical setting of miniature poems about animals by Guillaume Apollinaire.

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