Music For Life Episode 82 - Living Composers Festival featuring Jason Robert Brown, Fifth House Ensemble, Recitals

03/15/15 • -1 min

In this episode... our last before our Spring Recess...
Elleka talks to members of Fifth House, our ensemble-in-residence, who are back on campus for more work with our students...
Jason Robert Brown at DePauw with the end of the semester approaching, we hear from several students who are have upcoming junior and senior recitals, including our very own Anna Gatdula...
and right on the heels of our Living Composers Festival featuring guest composer Jason Robert Brown, Hannah talks with a pair of students who had the opportunity to sing for Jason in a masterclass...
and I sit down with him to talk about his terrific performance here and the good advice he has for 21st century musicians! SOURCES
From her Faculty Select Series recital on March 10th, pianist Darcy McCoy performs Claude Debussy's "La soiree dans grenade," from "Estampes."
From their concert of March 8th, Craig Paré directs the DePauw University Band in a performance of Philip Sparke's "Overture for Woodwinds."
From their appearance at the March 11th recital hour, here are Fifth House flutist Melissa Snoza, clarinetist Jenny Woodrum, and bassoonist Eric Heidbreder playing Jared Miller's piece "Happiness."
From the Student Cabaret performance on March 7th during last week's Living Composers Festival, soprano Angel Riley. baritone Derrick Truby, and pianist Jennifer Peacock perform "A-rumblin' and a-rollin'" from Jason Robert Brown's "Parade."
From the horn studio concert of March 11th, Horn Professor Rob Danforth performs the third movement, Allegro, from Richard Strauss' Concerto no. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 11.

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Music For Life Episode 81 - Maya Beiser, Roberto Sierra, Choral Ensembles, Darcy McCoy, Fifth House

In this episode of Music For Life, Music From DePauw...
Maya Beiser choir director Kristina Boerger fills us in on what our choral ensembles are bringing us in their upcoming concert... Hannah talks to three of our students who had the opportunity to be coached by visiting composer Roberto Sierra... Anna chats with Elleka Okerstrom and Dan Hickey about what's happening with the Fifth House residency this week... piano faculty member Darcy McCoy comes in to invite us to her solo recital of Spanish and Latin American music... and cello professor Eric Edberg talks with me about our next Green Guest Artist, the phenomenal Maya Beiser! SOURCES
From the chamber music concert of our Music of the 21st Century festival featuring guest composer Roberto Sierra, Darcy McCoy performs Sierra's piece Toccata.
From our student recital hour of March 4th, 2015, saxophonist Spencer Schillerstrom and pianist Nicholas Reynolds perform two movements from John Williams' piece "Escapades," "Reflections" and "Closing In."
From her CD "World to Come," Maya Beiser performs John Tavener's "Lament to Phaedra."
From their performance of March 4th, 2015, the DePauw University Jazz Band, under the direction of Steve Snyder, performs Frank Mantooth's "Angelika."

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Music For Life Episode 83 - Concerto Competition Winners, ISO with Alice Sara Ott, Amy Lynn Barber, Maya Beiser

In this episode of Music For Life, Music From DePauw...
Maya Beiser
Matt Skiba catches up with some of the winners of our annual Concerto Competition, whose concert is right around the corner...
Anna Gatdula chats with some students about our next Green Guest Artists concert —the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra with guest pianist Alice Sara Ott...
I welcome back our former dean, professor Amy Lynn Barber, for a concert honoring her years of service to DePauw featuring former students and colleagues...
and we present the first part of a wide ranging interview with Green Guest Artist Maya Beiser, who shared a wealth of good advice with our 21st Century Musicians during her visit to DePauw!
SOURCES
From the "Percussive Celebration" honoring Professor Amy Barber, here are cellist Ruth Marshall and percussionists Amy Lynn Barber, Dave Dwinell, Heather Sloan, and Bonnie Whiting performing the third movement, "Dying like the soft breath of butterflies," from the piece "Dueling with time, bartering for minutes of existence," composed by Carlos Carillo Cotto.
From the Student Recital Hour of Wednesday, March 18th, 2015, DePauw alum Josiah Rushing performs "Loops IV," by Phillipe Hurel.
From the Student Recital Hour of Wednesday, March 18th, 2015, DePauw alum Patrick Speranza performs "She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket," by Kevin Volans.