Music For Life Episode 96 - Timothy McAllister, Jazz Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble

11/13/15 • -1 min

This week, on Music for Life, Music from DePauw...
Timothy McAllister professor Steve Snyder and junior Drew Casey come in for a friendly chat about the next Jazz Ensemble concert...
professor Bonnie Whiting comes in to tell me about what the Percussion Ensemble has planned for their performance this week...
Hannah talks with seniors Catherine Anderson-Quinones and Lance Orta and junior Dallas Gray about their upcoming recitals...
and sax professor Scotty Stepp tells us what to look forward to from Faculty Select Series guest Timothy McAllister this weekend!
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From this week's Student Recital Hour, cellist Peter Lockman and pianist Tony Weinstein perform the first movement, Allegretto, from Dmitri Shostakovich's first cello concerto, op. 107.
Also from this week's recital hour, tenor saxophonist Spencer Schillerstrom and pianist Steve Snyder perform Schillerstrom's piece "Suspended" and Bill Evans' arrangement of Henry Mancini's "The Days of Wine and Roses."
From the Faculty Select Series concert of November 9th, 2015, guest fortepianist Leslie Tung performs Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonata op. 27, no. 2, the "Moonlight."

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Music For Life Episode 95 - Seymour Bernstein, Paré & Weinstein Recital, NATS

This week, on Music for Life, Music from DePauw...
Seymour Bernstein voice professor Caroline Smith talks to Dean McCoy about a vocal competition DePauw just finished hosting...
Burke Stanton chats with professor Barbara Paré about an intriguing recital of settings of Emily Dickinson's poetry that she and Tony Weinstein are presenting this week...
we present some terrific performances recently given on the stages of Thompson Recital Hall and Kresge Auditorium...
and Dean McCoy talks with professor Kristina Boerger about a special guest this week, beloved New York-based piano pedagogue Seymour Bernstein, with whom we have a special DePauw connection!
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From their concert of October 14, 2015, the DePauw Chamber Players (May Phang, piano; Tarn Travers, violin; and Eric Edberg, cello) present Maurice Ravel's A Minor Piano Trio.
From their recital of October 27, 2015, the DePauw Faculty Woodwind Ensemble (flutist Anne Reynolds, oboist Leonid Sirotkin, clarinetist Randy Salman, bassoonist Kara Stolle, and horn professor Robert Danforth) perform the three movements of Gunther Schuller's Suite: Prelude, Blues, and Toccata.

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Music For Life Episode 97 - University Orchestra, Fifth Annual Holiday Gala, Opera Scenes, Chamber Ensembles

In this week's episode of Music for Life, Music from DePauw, our last before DePauw's Thanksgiving break...
Orcenith Smith stops in to update us on a very special DePauw Orchestra tradition...
Holiday Gala - 2014 with the chamber music class performances coming up, Eric Edberg comes by to talk about what that's going to involve...
Hannah talks to some of her Opera Scenes classmates about their upcoming recital...
and we talk to several of our ensemble directors about our Fifth Annual Holiday Gala, coming up in just a couple of weeks!
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From their concert of November 18, 2015, the DePauw Jazz Ensemble, directed by Steven Snyder, performs Bob Mintzer's March Majestic.
From the Student Recital Hour of November 18, 2015, pianist Shiyu Su performs the first movement, Allegro moderato, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata for Piano no. 10 in C major, K. 330.
From the Student Recital Hour of November 18, 2015, pianist Eric Heaton performs the first and fifth of Johannes Brahms' Sechs Klavierstucke, op. 118.