Music For Life Episode 87 - Honors Theses, Greencastle Summer Music Festival, Vocal Arts Camp, Student Recitals

04/30/15 • -1 min

In this episode, our final episode of the academic year...
seniors Anna Gatdula and Rachel Robin come in to tell us about their honors theses...
Vocal Arts Camp, Summer 2014 Hannah talks to student composer Stephen Shannon about an interesting recital he's giving...
we hear about the roster for this year's Greencastle Summer Music Festival from its organizer, professor Eric Edberg...
voice professor Caroline Smith gives us a preview of this summer's Vocal Arts at DePauw camp for high school students...
and the Music for Life staff joins me for a conversation about our favorite moments from this year and some of the great things in store for us next year!
SOURCES
From this year's Senior Showcase of April 27th, tenor Joseph Leppek and pianist Amanda Hopson perform "It is monstorous to think of it..." from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Lowell Leibermann.
From this year's Senior Showcase of April 27th, saxophonist Elizabeth King and pianist Amanda Hopson perform "Run, Bird" from Fuzzy Bird Sonata by Takashi Yoshimatsu.
From this year's Senior Showcase of April 27th, clarinetist Damiel Hickey and pianist Tony Weinstein perform the Allegro Appasionato movement, from the Sonata no. 1 in F Minor, op. 120 by Johannes Brahms.
From this year's Senior Showcase of April 27th, saxophonist Kevin Smith and pianist John Clodfelter perform the Andante et Allegro movement from the Concerto for Alto Saxophone by Henri Tomasi.
From this year's Senior Showcase of April 27th, pianist Rachel Robin perform the Rondo Capriccioso in E Major, op. 14 by Felix Mendelssohn.

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Music For Life Episode 86 - Beethoven's Ninth, Baladino, Mark Applebaum, Musical Theatre Scenes

This week, on Music For Life...
Baladino Anna talks to Steven Linville and a pair of students about the upcoming concert by the Musical Theatre Scenes class...
Orcenith Smith comes by to talk about the grand finale to the choirs' and orchestra's season, Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony...
I chat with visiting composer Mark Applebaum, who just gave a fascinating concert with our percussion ensemble...
and we catch up with ensemble in residence Fifth House and visiting ensemble Baladino, in town for our final Green Guest Artists Series concert of the year!
SOURCES
From the Student Recital Hour of April 22, 2015, tenor Blake Beckemeyer and pianist John Clodfelter perform Hugo Wolf's "Fussreise."
From the Student Reci tal Hour of April 22, 2015, pianist Alexander Bushkin performs the Andante Cantabile in B-Minor from Sergei Rachmaninoff's Moments Musicaux, op. 16.
From the Student Recital Hour of April 22, 2015, pianist Emily Chen performs the Etude no. 2 in E-flat Major, the "Octave," from the Grandes Etudes de Paganini S. 141, by Franz Liszt.
From their performance of April 20, 2015, the DePauw Chamber Singers perform excerpts from Hildegard of Bingen's "Ursula Antiphons."

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Music For Life Episode 88 - 21CM, Summer Music Festival, DePauw Orchestra, Summer Internships

In this, our first episode of the 2015-16 academic year...
Toni Robinson we hear from students Lisa Salazar and Maureen Bailey about their summer internships...
Orchestra director Orcenith Smith stops in to tell us what the orchestra’s up to this semester...
we present a few of the many wonderful performances from this year’s Greencastle Summer Music Festival...
and our new Associate Director of Music Admission, Toni Robinson, and Director of the 21st Century Musician Initiative, Mark Rabideau, each come by to introduce themselves!
SOURCES
From the June 17th concert of the Greencastle Summer Music Festival, violinist Philip Palermo, violist Nicole Brockmann, cellist Eric Edberg, and pianist Claude Cymerman perform the Allegro molto movement from the Quartet in C Minor, op. 15 by Gabriel Fauré.
From the July 22nd concert of the Greencastle Summer Music Festival,cellist Eric Edberg and pianist Fernando Otero perform Otero’s piece “From Now On.”
From the August 19th concert of the Greencastle Summer Music Festival, pianist John Kamfona performs Aram Khatchaturian’s Toccata in E-Flat Minor.
From the August 5th concert of the Greencastle Summer Music Festival, Tim Grimm and Friends perform Grimm’s song “Better Days.”
From the Student Recital Hour of August 26, 2015, Julie Strauser, soprano; Yazid Pierce-Gray, baritone; and Amanda Hopson, piano perform “Dunque io son” from Rossini’s Barber of Seville.
From the Project Trio performance in Kresge Auditorium of August 23, 2015, bassist Peter Seymour, flutist Greg Pattillo, and cellist Eric Stephenson play their piece “Sloeberry Jam.”