Music For Life Episode 67 - University Band, Weinstein recital, Parade, ETHEL

This week, on Music For Life, Music From DePauw...

Tony Weinstein

Band Director Craig Paré invites us to take a Short Ride in a Fast Machine to the University Band concert...

 

piano faculty member Tony Weinstein tells us about a monumental recital he's bringing us this week...

 

as preparations for our fall musical progress, music director Steven Linville and two of his singers —and stage director professor Tim Good —share with us their perspectives on Jason Robert Brown's Parade...

 

and violin professor Erica Dicker joins me to chat about our next Green Guest Artists, string quartet ETHEL with guest Native-American flutist Robert Mirabal!

SOURCES

From the Student Recital Hour of Wednesday, September 17, 2014, “It’s Hard to Speak My Heart” and “All the Wasted Time” from Parade, by Jason Robert Brown, featuring Julie Strauser, soprano; Joey Leppek, tenor; and Jennifer Peaock, piano. 

From their concert of September 21, 2014, Professor Orcenith Smith directs the DePauw University Orchestra in a performance of Joseph Suk's "Toward a New Life." 

Simon Rattle leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the original version for orchestra of John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine." 

From their CD "Ethel," the Ethel String Quartet along with bass clarinetist Evan Ziporyn performs Ziporyn's piece, "Be-in.""