Music For Life Episode 70 - Dvorak and America Festival, Student Pops Orchestra, Barbara Nissman

On this week's episode of Music For Life, Music From DePauw...

Kevin Deas

we feature conversations about our just-concluded Dvorak and America Festival with interviews with special guests bass-baritone Kevin Deas and cultural historian Joseph Horowitz...

 

Kristina Boerger and Orcenith Smith give us insight into the choir and orchestra participation in the festival...

 

and Eric Edberg chats with me about the good work the State of the Art class did on the Dvorak and America festival...

 

Also on this episode, student producer Hannah Gauthier talks to sophomore Drew Casey about a new student-run pops orchestra here on campus...

 

and we catch up with phenomenal pianist Barbara Nissman, who recently performed for us as a guest artist on our Faculty Select Series!

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Concluding this episode, from her performance on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 as a Faculty Select Series guest artist, pianist Barbara Nissman plays the final movement, Vivace, from the sixth piano sonata, op. 82 of Sergei Prokofiev.