DePauw Band to take listeners 'Bach to the Future' Sunday

The DePauw University Band, directed by Professor Craig Paré, will present its first concert of the year "Bach to the Future" on Sundaty, Oct. 4 -- but at an unusual time.

The Sunday matinee in Kresge Auditorium has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in order to allow interested audience members who would also enjoy attending the final performance of the School of Music/Theatre and Communications production of "Spamalot" to do so at 3 p.m. in Moore Theatre, the neighboring venue on the first floor of the Green Center for the Performing Arts.

The DePauw University Band invites audience members to bring a non-perishable food item to exchange for a free ticket to its concert at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 at the Green Center for the Performing Arts. All food and cash collected will be donated to the Putnam County Emergency Food Bank.

In its opening program, the University Band celebrates the great variety and richness that has been the symphonic band's legacy. From transcriptions such as Erik Leidzén's great setting of J. S. Bach's monumental "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" to C. L. Barnhouse's classic "screamer" march, "The Battle of Shiloh" that pays tribute to the veterans of the Civil War, to rich harmonies of 20th-century composer David Diamond, and further to today's composers -- Eric Whitacre, David Gillingham, Samuel Hazo and Richard Saucedo -- wind music's history features an array of styles, colors and moods.

The University Band will present this retrospective of exemplary pieces for symphonic band in addition to a beautiful work for chamber winds, the first movement, Andante sostenuto-Allegro molto moderato, of Émile Bernard's "Divertissment, Op. 36."

The band would also like to invite all audience members to bring one or more non-perishable food items for donation to the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry. Free-will cash donations will also be accepted. Any audience member presenting a food item or donation at the box office will receive a free ticket to the University Band concert.

General admission to Sunday's performance is $3. Tickets for seniors, children and all students are free. For more information and online purchases, visit www.depauw.edu/music/tickets.

A new automatic ticket kiosk, recently installed on the first floor of the Green Center, is now available for making walk-up ticket purchases at any time of day using a credit or debit card. The venue's box office will also be open beginning one hour prior to the performance.