Music For Life Episode 91 - Elissa Harbert, Brooke Addison, Study Abroad, Music on the Square

09/19/15 • -1 min

This week, on Music for Life, Music from DePauw...
Elissa Harbert we meet musicology professor Elissa Harbert and 21CM intern Brooke Addison...
he’s been here for less than a month, but so what — we’re stranding professor Thomas King on a desert island with a defective iPod...
Hannah learns about the summer abroad that Dana Hart and Annie Chase had, and Rachel talks to Burke Stanton about his semester abroad...
and we bring you some great performances that DePauw students, faculty, and guests presented this week, including from the inaugural performance at Music on the Square!
SOURCES
Elena Escudero and pianist Tony Weinstein perform Libby Larsen’s “Bucking Bronco” at this past Wednesday’s Student Recital Hour.
Our first Green Guest Artists of the year, Boston-based string chamber orchestra A Far Cry, presented a concert on September 11th. Here they play the third movement of Philip Glass’s third symphony.
Wednesday, September 16 saw the first performance at DePauw’s new Music on the Square. Drummer Jason Tiemann, guitarist David Stryker, and DePauw professor Steve Snyder on organ play Horace Silver’s “Nica’s Dream.”
Soprano Shannon Barry and pianist Amanda Hopson perform Richard Strauss’s “Sehnsucht” at this past Wednesday’s Student Recital Hour.
Prof. King’s 5 Minute iPod segment included music from the following CDs: Die Zauberflöte Highlights/Berlin Philharmonic/Karl Böhm: Deutsche Grammophon 429825-2; Mahler Symphony no. 5/Chicago Symphony/Georg Solti: London 433329-2; Saint-Saëns Symphony no. 3/Boston Symphony/Charles Munch: BMG Classics 09026-61500-2

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Music For Life Episode 90 - A Far Cry, Jennings/Hopson Recital, Jennie Smith, Thomas King

In this week's episode of Music for Life, Music from DePauw...
A Far Cry we hear from two more students about their summer doings; this time, working with young musicians...
two more new faculty members drop by to introduce themselves: singer Thomas King and music theorist Jennie Smith...
Hannah talks to Kerry Jennings and Amanda Hopson about their Schubert recital...
and we have a lively chat with members of our first Green Guest Artists of the year, Boston-based and Grammy-nominated chamber ensemble A Far Cry, whom I fuss at for being conductorless!
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From their CD “Dreams and Prayers,” A Far Cry performs the third movement, “Teneramente,” from Osvaldo Golijov’s composition “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.”
From our Faculty Select Series concert of September 10th, 2015, saxophonist Paul Bro, cellist Kurt Fowler, and pianist Martha Krasnican perform David Maslanka’s piece “Out of This World.”

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Music For Life Episode 92 - Spamalot, Jayme Stone's Lomax Project, Eric Edberg, May Phang

In this week's episode of Music for Life, Music from DePauw...
Jayme Stone and the Lomax Project Matt Champagne chats with Eric Edberg about his and May Phang’s recent performance of Albert Schnittke’s second cello sonata... with our fall musical right around the corner, Hannah Gauthier has a special audience with His Royal Highness Arthur, King of the Britons and his assistant, Patsy... we share some performances from the stages of Thompson Recital Hall and Kresge Auditorium... and Burke Stanton talks to series director Professor Ron Dye about this week’s Performing Arts Series guests, Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, a group which brings together terrific roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional American music!
SOURCES
From the 2015 CD “Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project,” “Hog Went Through the Fence Yoke,” "Lazy John," and "Sheep Sheep Don’tcha Know the Road.”
From her Junior Recital on September 19th, 2015, soprano Kristin Daines and pianist Tony Weinstein perform “Willow Song” from Douglas Moore’s opera The Ballad of Baby Doe.
From the original cast recording of Spamalot, we offer for your approval “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.”
From their recital of Wednesday, September 16, 2015, cellist Eric Edberg and pianist May Phang perform Alfred Schnittke’s second sonata for cello and piano.