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DPU Band Concert to benefit Putnam County Food Pantry
The DePauw University Band, directed by Professor Craig Paré, will present its first concert of the season this Sunday — a mid-afternoon matinee on Sept. 25 at 3 p.m. in the Green Center’s Kresge Auditorium.
For this performance, the band also invites audience members to bring one or more non-perishable food items for donation to the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry. Any audience member presenting a food item at the box office will receive a free ticket to the University Band concert.
A wonderful mixture of styles and eras will be featured on the benefit, which includes “A Movement for Rosa,” Mark Camphouse’s touching tribute to Rosa Parks and her courageous stand against injustice; British composer Paul Hart’s “Cartoon”; an instrumental setting of “Blessed Are They” from Johannes Brahms’s groundbreaking choral masterpiece, Ein deutsches Requiem; Eric Whitacre’s setting of his own choral work, “The Seal Lullaby”; and John Philip Sousa’s spectacular concert march, “The Glory of the Yankee Navy.”
The program concludes with the breathtaking “Danzón No. 2” by Arturo Márquez.
“We’re starting off with a tasty array of sounds, colors and styles of music for symphonic band,” Paré says. “What better way to begin a year that is also going celebrate the commercial release of the University Band’s 10th compact disc ‘Everything Beautiful,’ later this fall.”
General admission tickets to Sunday’s performance are $5. Tickets for seniors, children and all students are free.
For more information and online purchases, visit www.music.depauw.edu. The venue’s box office will be open to receive donations or purchase tickets in person, beginning one hour prior to the performance.
Free-will cash donations to the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry will also be accepted.