Category: Music

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Joey Alexander Trio will perform at Loeb Playhouse on Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. This performance is presented by Purdue Convocations with support from the Robert B. and Patricia Peyton Truitt Piano Performance Endowment, Purdue...

Musician Rhiannon Giddens will bring her “Freedom Highway Tour” to Purdue University’s Loeb Playhouse on September 15 at 8PM.

These 2015 Concert Artists Guild Competition winners will perform Franck’s Quintet in F Minor-an urgent work with one emotional height after another.

The all-female Norwegian brass ensemble has rewritten the rules in brass repertoire with stylistic explorations of tone, technique, and versatility.

Program notes for the March 2, 2017 performance: Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor with guest soloist Nikolai Lugansky.

The orchestra returns to Purdue with guest soloist Nikolai Lugansky, who has been among Russia’s most preeminent pianists for nearly 30 years.

Building off ideas and collaborating equally, the robot marimba player listens to bandmates live to present original compositions influenced by jazz & hip-hop.

Instead of exaggerating society’s eccentricities (however memorably), Harold Lloyd distinguished himself from silent-film peers Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton by embracing everyday matters of his era and audience.

A treasure of the silent-film era, the 1923 classic will be screened in an historic movie house with accompaniment from Clark Wilson on the Mighty Wurlitzer.

A longtime soloist for Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte, Arturo has led the ensemble (rechristened the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra) since 1995, performing worldwide and earning two Grammy® awards.

Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110 (1821-22) by Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, 1770 – Vienna, 1827) Like the late string quartets, the late Beethoven piano sonatas are surrounded by their own mystique.  In them, Beethoven broke a creative...

William Shakespeare, one of the most shining – and miraculous – figures in the history of all literature, died 400 years ago in 1616. Despite Shakespeare’s universal appeal, there still remains some debate even today about the authenticity of his...