Tuesday Flute Recital to Serve as Benefit for Music Program in New Orleans

September 29, 2005

September 29, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - Anne Reynolds, adjunct professor in the DePauw University School of Music and principal flutist of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, will present a faculty recital on Tuesday, October 4 that will also serve as a benefit for the music department of Loyola University in New Orleans. The recital, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Thompson Recital Hall of the DePauw Performing Arts Center and features music by Haydn, Mozart, Handel and more. Donations will be accepted and will be forwarded to Loyola.

Joining Reynolds in this musical and charitable endeavor are two DePauw colleagues -- professor and violist Allison Edberg, and assistant director of music admissions and flutist Corinna Nash-Wnuk -- as well as Loyola University music faculty members Valerie Poullette, violin; and Allen Nesbit, cello.

"I was working to put together material for the recital when I hit on the idea," says Professor Reynolds. "Valerie is a friend of mine and was available, so we decided to collaborate and make the performance a benefit for the Loyola music program."

Damages sustained during Hurricane Katrina forced Loyola University to closse for the fall semester, but the institution does plan to reopen in the spring. Donations collected from the event will help to fund the College of Music Endowment, which provides broad financial support to Loyola's music students. In addition to sustaining student travel to summer festivals and professional conferences, the fund also recently purchased tickets for two students from Costa Rica to return to their homeland following the natural disaster along the Gulf Coast.

The evening program will include solo and chamber music by classical and baroque masters such as Haydn, J.S. Bach and Mozart as well as contemporary gems like Hanns Jelinek's Twelve-Tone Music.

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Learn about DePauw's efforts to aid victims of Katrina in this previous story.

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