Prof. Eric Edberg to Perform Cello Concert for National Music Museum Friday

September 9, 2015

"Music channels grief, and few instruments convey human anguish as the cello does," begins an article in South Dakota's Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan promoting a Friday concert by Eric Edberg. The professor of cello in the DePauw University School of Music will perform as part of the National Music Museum's "NMM Live!" concert series.

"September 11, 2001, was a trauma for all of us," says Edberg. "The shock and horror of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers still resonates. In this concert I’m going to play the Bach Suite (the second, in D minor), which to me most expresses that profound sadness."

The newspaper notes, "Edberg is a post-classical musician and a professor of cello at DePauw University in Indiana. He has played concertos, recitals, and chamber music concerts throughout the country, in Europe, and China. He has been the principal cellist of the Annapolis and Terre Haute symphony orchestras and performs regularly with the DePauw Chamber Players."

Learn more about the program and the carbon-fiber cello at the paper's website.

Cleveland T. Johnson, professor emeritus of music at DePauw University, is director of the National Music Museum.

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