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

March 16, 2015

Community Field Recording Open House Participants Announced

We’re pleased to announce the musicians chosen to record during our March 28 Community Field Recording Open House, as part of Jayme Stone's Lomax Project. Fergus Daly and Joe Kollman Joe Peters Pearsongs Green Room Rockers Cody Hall and Rachael...

March 16, 2015

Program Notes: Dublin Guitar Quartet

DUBLIN GUITAR QUARTET April 10 / 8 PM / Loeb Playhouse FRIENDS SUPPORT FROM: MIKE & PAM LUENZ BRIAN BOLGER | PAT BRUNNOCK | REDMOND O’TOOLE | TOMAS O’DURCAIN Program Note: Regular Dublin Guitar Quartet member Michael O'Toole has been replaced...

March 16, 2015

Program Notes: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Jeremy Denk, piano

Program Notes Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Jeremy Denk, piano March 24 / 7:30PM / Elliott Hall of Music Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 6 (1892) by Josef Suk (Křečovice, Bohemia, 1874 – Benešov, 1935) In the late...

March 6, 2015

Q&A with Jeremy Denk

UPDATE: Read Part II of our Q&A with Jeremy Denk Known to Purdue audiences from 2008’s collaborative recital with Joshua Bell and a 2009 solo appearance, Jeremy Denk will return to Purdue University—with the Academy of St. Martin in the...

February 26, 2015

Meet the Members of SCC: David LaVanne

David LaVanne Year: Junior Major: Supply Chain Management Technology, Industrial Systems Technology, Theatre Design & Production Position in SCC: President Hometown: Lake Zurich, IL Favorite SCC Memory: The opportunity to spray the crowd with gallons of paint at Life In...

February 23, 2015

Numerous 2015 Grammy award winners have performed at Purdue

The winners of this year’s Grammy awards were announced on Sunday, February 8th. Newcomer Sam Smith took home 4 awards, Beyoncé won 3, and Beck surprised everyone with his win for “Album of the Year.” While a few new faces...

February 17, 2015

Convocations Soirée Brightens Winter Spirits

In the dark of winter, bright spots of good food, good friends, and good theater go a long way toward creating warmth when the temperatures outside are anything but! The Friends of Convocations annual Soirée managed this on a cold Tuesday...

February 10, 2015

Why does Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major list two dates?

At the dawn of 1854, after his soaring fortunes at age 21, Johannes Brahms set out to write Trio in B major for Piano, Violin and Cello. The trio was originally issued in November 1854 after the young Brahms experienced...

February 2, 2015

Peter Pan Prequel Has Heart and Humor

Peter and the Starcatcher For 12 actors to be able to portray 100 different characters and conjure spectacular locales with low-tech sets and props, it takes enormous talent, ingenious stagecraft, the limitless possibilities of imagination—and a trunkload of pixie dust....

January 29, 2015

Three Stories High Festival Program Notes

In the spirit of a fringe theatre festival, Three Stories High featured The Cardinals by Stan’s Cafe (England), No Place to Go by Ethan Lipton and his Orchestra (New York), and The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer (Australia).

THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT Let me explain. We’re always looking for fascinating artists to bring into our community. Each time we’ve thrown the range of possible experiences even wider, you’ve rushed right in and made it a success. We...

January 27, 2015

What is Three Stories High Theatre Festival?

Purdue Convocations director Todd Wetzel recently discussed the Three Stories High Theatre Festival with the Purdue Exponent. Can you describe in your own words what this festival is? Todd Wetzel: This is a deliberate effort to do two things: continue...

January 27, 2015

The Cardinals by Stan’s Cafe trades fire and brimstone for humor and humanity

Three British Catholic Cardinals in crimson robes are on a mission of evangelism — touring with a puppet show of their own making that presents abbreviated, extrapolated readings of The Bible. At least that’s how it starts — in Genesis, of...