Purdue Convocations

Live Music, Broadway, Theatre, and Ideas at Purdue University

September 10, 2019

Get to Know Yi-Nuo Wang

Meet Concert Artist Guild's classical pianist Yi-Nuo Wang. From schools in different continents, apprenticeships with cellist Andres Diaz and the Escher String Quartet, and performing in chamber concerts, Wang is no normal pianist. At only 22 years old, she has...

September 10, 2019

5 Songs by Los Angeles Guitar Quartet for a Productive Week

We’ve all been there... It’s Wednesday at noon and your week is dragging on. You start scrolling through Spotify for something new and can’t find the right thing to get you going again. Sounds like you are in need of...

September 10, 2019

Review: Cameron Graves’ Planetary Prince

By Michael J. Agovino, Pitchfork The collective known as the West Coast Get Down may have made its emphatic mark on the jazz world in 2015, but the bandmates have been honing their sound and approach for nearly two decades together...

September 10, 2019

Novalima Mixes Old and New Sounds From Peru

Few would have thought that the ancestral, gritty sounds of Afro-Peruvian music, made from a cajón (wooden box) and the rattle of a donkey jawbone, would become a modern sensation. But it has, thanks to the creative sounds of Novalima,...

September 9, 2019

9 Not-So-Small Space Race Facts

By Kristen Day We've all heard Neil Armstrong's famous quote, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But how well do you know the story surrounding that famous spacewalk? Before you take off, launch into...

September 6, 2019

Theatre Review: One Small Step

It's easy to forget just how epic the Apollo 11 moon landing was: a human achievement probably never to be matched again for generations. Oxford Playhouse's two-hander, One Small Step, is a heart-warming reminder of the awe the story can...