Tag: Music

Songs of Freedom, April 5, 2018 Loeb Playhouse

Program Notes: Songs of Freedom

Under the direction of Grammy Award-winning drummer, Ulysses Owens Jr., the 1960’s are explored through the work of three prolific artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone. To effectively deliver this vast repertoire, the program features vocalists Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, and Joanna Majoko.

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Global Fest 2017 Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna

Global Fest plans expanded lineup; event free and open to public

Global Fest 2017 will rock Columbia Street in West Lafayette on September 16 with extended hours and an impressive lineup of international and local performers.

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Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens to perform at Purdue University on Sept.15

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

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All tickets now on sale! Diavolo: L.O.S.T. 9/28/17

17-18 single show tickets now on sale!

All single show tickets for the 2017-18 Purdue Convocations season are now on sale. Featuring Broadway musicals, lectures, dance, theatre, music, and concerts

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Four musicians from the Verona String Quartet sit in a semicircle on stage, playing string instruments in an empty concert hall. The black and white image highlights the auditorium’s modern design and the performers’ focus.

Verona String Quartet and pianist Daniel Hsu to perform April 23

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

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David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ band, Donny McCaslin Quartet, performs April 6

The saxophonist and his group surged into the mainstream with David Bowie’s Blackstar. But the jazz world had long known and celebrated the work of McCaslin.

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Nine women of tenThing, dressed in formal attire, pose with brass instruments on the steps and porch of a rustic building amid lush greenery. One stands apart in the foreground, holding a trumpet.

Norwegian brass ensemble tenThing to perform March 30

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

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Shimon

Jazz Meets Artificial Intelligence in this FREE Engagement

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

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Hanging from clock

The First-Rate Follies of ‘Safety Last!’

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.

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Hanging from clock

Safety Last!

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.

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Arturo O’Farrill, a man with glasses and a beard, stands smiling with arms crossed in a black short-sleeve shirt and jeans before a colorful graffiti mural and metal shutter.

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

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.

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Barnatan at the piano

Program: Inon Barnatan

The pianist has studied alongside some of the 20th century’s most distinguished instructors and will present Brahms’ “Chaconne,” “Handel Variations,” and more.

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