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DePauw University Orchestra

The DePauw University Orchestra maintains an active schedule. The DePauw University Orchestra, an all-undergraduate organization, focuses on performing and reading music of the standard repertoire creating a four-year overview that is a cross-section of music including most style periods, regional influences and genres. The DePauw University Orchestra won an ASCAP Award for “Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music” in 1991. It was featured in May and June of 1996 on USAirways in-flight program “Ovation” performing works of Stravinsky, Mussorgsky and Grieg.

The Orchestra not only performs its own concerts (often broadcast live on WGRE-FM and the Internet), it plays for DePauw Opera productions, accompanies student Concerto Winners, and performs with the University Choirs with faculty and guest soloists. Conducting class and Orchestration class students also have benefit of time working with the DePauw University Orchestra.

DePauw Chamber Symphony

Selected students from the larger DePauw University Orchestra form the DePauw Chamber Symphony. Formed in 1974, the Chamber Symphony performs concert tours during DePauw’s January Winter Term. Winter Term is designed for students to focus on a single project. That unique situation allows for an intensive rehearsal environment culminating in touring performances.

The DePauw Chamber Symphony has performed in Japan, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, The Czech Republic, Great Britain, Canada, in Southeastern, Southwestern, Western and Northeastern United States, in Carnegie Recital Hall (NYC) and in the Terrace Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

2012-2013 Performances

Fall 2012

Sunday, September 23, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Auber:  Overture from Fra Diavolo
J.S. Bach:  Excerpts from the Orchestral Suites,
   BWV 1066-1069
Mascagni:  Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Elgar:  Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma")


Sunday, October 28, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

ArtsFest: Art and the Other
Liadov:  "Baba Yaga"
Elfman: "Spider-Man"
Prokofieff:  "Peter and the Wolf"
   Susan Anthony, narrator
Dukas:  "L'apprenti sorcier"


Monday, November 19, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Strauss, Jr.:  Overture from Die Fledermaus
Holst: Lyric Movement for Viola and Orchestra
   Dr. Nicole Brockmann, viola soloist
Bartok:  Dance Suite


Saturday, December 1, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012 
Kresge Auditorium

Holiday Gala Combined Concert
arr. Dragon: "O Tannenbaum"
Silvestri:  "Polar Express"
Seasonal Sing-a-long:
   "O Come All Ye Faithful"
   "Deck the Halls"
   "Silent Night"
   "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

Spring 2013

Wednesday, January 9, 2013
DePauw Chamber Symphony
England Pre-Tour Concert


January 10-18, 2013  England Tour


February 7-10, 2013
Thursday-Saturday - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday - 2:00 p.m.
DePauw Opera
Moore Theater

Die Fledermaus
Joachim Schamberger, director
Orcenith Smith, conductor
Johann Strauss, Jr., composer
For tickets, contact the Green Center for the Performing Arts box office: 765.658.4827
 

SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013
3:00 P.M.
KRESGE AUDITORIUM

Music of the 21st Century Closing Concert
Libby Larsen, guest composer
Larsen: "Deep Summer Music"
Larsen: "Bach 358"


Sunday, April 14, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

DePauw Concerto Competition Winners' Concert
 

Sunday, May 5, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium

Final Choral/Orchestral Concert
with DePauw University Chorus
and DePauw Chamber Singers
Haydn: "Lord Nelson Mass" 
Orcenith Smith, conductor
Gregory Ristow, director of choirs