DePauw School of Music Events Jan. 9-15

DePauw School of Music Events

Week of Jan. 9-15

DePauw Chamber Symphony

Winter Term 2017 Pre-Tour Concert

Orcenith Smith, music director

Nicole Brockmann, viola

Monday, Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Green Center, Kresge Auditorium

Come by Kresge to hear the DePauw Chamber Orchestra and wish the ensemble bon voyage before its Winter Term tour to the UK. The nine-day concert tour, Jan. 11-19, which includes performances in London, Oxford and Bath, begins with a free kick-off concert in Greencastle featuring faculty violist Nicole Brockmann. No tickets needed. Learn more at music.depauw.edu/news.

2016/17 DePauw Interdisciplinary Festival

Cultural Connections: Weill and Brecht

Winter Term: Music Unwound I

Jan. 11-15

Green Center for the Performing Arts

Departments throughout DePauw have been participating in a yearlong interdisciplinary festival, delving into the works and worlds of German playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in anticipation of the DePauw Opera production of Weill's Street Scene (Feb. 9--12). During Music Unwound (Part I), faculty, staff, students and community members are invited to explore Weill's influences on German and American culture with this week's guests, historian Joe Horowitz, musicologist Kim Kowalke, and vocalists Lisa Vroman and William Sharp. The Music Unwound series, to be offered during DePauw's 2017 Winter Term and spring semester, is supported in part by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Music Unwound: "The Challenges of Street Scene"

Dr. Kim H. Kowalke, Professor of Musicology, The Eastman School of Music

and the Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities, University of Rochester

Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Green Center, Thompson Recital Hall

Free and open to the public

Music Unwound Film Showing: Street Scene

Original screenplay by Elmer Rice

Directed by King Vidor

Thursday, Jan. 12 at 1 p.m.

Green Center, Thompson Recital Hall

A film showing of the King Vidor version of Elmer Rice's 1929 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene, the basis and inspiration for Weill's "American" opera, will be followed by a discussion with guest musicologist Kim Kowalke and cultural historian Joseph Horowitz.

Music Unwound Master Class: Selections from Kurt Weill's Street Scene

With Lisa Vroman, soprano; William Sharp, baritone;

Kim Kowalke, and Tony Weinstein, piano

Thursday, Jan. 12 at 6:30 p.m.

Green Center, Thompson Recital Hall

Music Unwound Cabaret

Saturday, Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 15 at 3 p.m.

Green Center, Kerr Theatre

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Top off the week with live music! A highlight of the DePauw Interdisciplinary Festival will be Music Unwound's Kurt Weill Cabaret, featuring lyric soprano Lisa Vroman, baritone William Sharp and pianist Shane Schag. Directed by Dean Anthony, with concept by Joe Horowitz and Kim Kowalke and visuals by Peter Bogdanoff, Saturday's cabaret-style performance, outlining the interactions of Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Marc Blitzstein, will be offered in the Green Center's intimate Kerr Theatre and repeated on Sunday.