“The place phrases fail, music speaks.” These well-known phrases uttered by Hans Christen Andersen, greatest remembered for his literary fairy tales, converse volumes to the profound influence of music on our lives. It surrounds us, envelopes us – in our favourite Netflix present, within the native espresso store, in our ears as we go about our every day duties, and within the locations we think about most sacred. Music transcends all of the poisonous rhetoric we hear on the information or on social media. It unifies. It reveals to us our frequent humanity. For this reason, at WKU, we play music and educate music, and why we supply on the custom of music making. We consider it’s elementary to our existence and needs to be shared with everybody.
The WKU Division of Music invitations you to share within the nice musical spirit that exists proper right here in Bowling Inexperienced. Our college students and college are passionately dedicated to the artwork of creating music and each semester we provide a large assortment of musical experiences for our local people. Bands, choirs, orchestras, jazz, percussion, chamber music, solo recitals, and musicals – come see, hear, and share the musical spirit of the WKU Division of Music!
Bands
The autumn WKU Bands embrace the Symphonic Band, the Wind Ensemble, the Huge Crimson Marching Band, and the WKU Campus Group Band. The Symphonic band is a live performance ensemble made up of over 80 woodwind, brass, and percussionists. They carry out up to date authentic works, classical transcriptions, and conventional marches. You possibly can hear the Huge Crimson Marching Band, with over 220 pupil musicians, in any respect WKU soccer video games, native parades, and, in fact, throughout Homecoming Weekend (Nov. 11).
Symphonic Band: September 24, 4pm, Van Meter Auditorium
Symphonic Band: November 17, 7:30pm, First Baptist Church
PRISM Live performance: January 26, 8pm, Van Meter Auditorium
Choirs
The WKU choirs embrace the Chorale, the Southern KY Choral Society, College Singers, Treble Choir and the scholar run a cappella teams the Treblemakers and the Redshirts. Via these a number of efficiency ensembles, college students and audiences are handled to a broad assortment of choral and vocal repertoire that features classical masterworks, chamber settings, distinctive collaborations with instrumentalists, and pop/jazz preparations. A spotlight of the autumn consists of the annual Winterfest – a choral celebration of the spirit and heat of the vacation season.
Chorale: September 24, 4pm, First Christian Church
WKU Choirs: October 22, 4pm, Van Meter Auditorium
Southern KY Choral Society: November 3, 7:30pm, Van Meter Auditorium
Winterfest: A Choral Celebration December 2, 8pm, Holy Spirit Catholic Church
WKU Symphony
The Symphony at WKU is a full orchestra that features college students, school, native professionals, and group members. The Symphony prides itself on persevering with the 400-year historical past of the nice music masters whereas additionally selling distinctive collaborations with visitor artists, the WKU Choirs, and dancers from the WKU Division of Theatre and Dance.
September 22, 7:30pm Van Meter Auditorium
October 27, 7:30pm, Van Meter Auditorium
Vacation on the Hill, December 1, 7:30pm, Van Meter Auditorium
WKU Jazz Band
Swing, backbeats, and improvisation – Jazz is alive in Bowling Inexperienced with the WKU Jazz Band. This ensemble is a standard huge band that includes a full rhythm part (piano, guitar, bass, drums) and a 15-piece horn part (saxes, trumpets and trombones). College students be taught and exhibit the artwork of improvisation, grooving with a rhythm part, and how you can work together with one another on this distinctive twentieth century musical artwork kind.
October 13, 11:30am, High quality Arts Heart Colonnade
November 9, 7:30pm, Capitol Theater
The WKU Division of Music strives to develop and current excellent musical artistry by means of a large assortment of diversified musical experiences – participating college students and audiences in music that spans a large spectrum of kinds, devices, time intervals, collaborations, and inventive expression. I hope you’ll be part of us for one, or many, of our Fall 2016 occasions… I assure you’ll come again for extra!
All occasions are open to the general public – please contact the WKU Division of Music for particular particulars about particular person occasions at 270-745-3751 or go to www.wku.edu/music.
-submitted by WKU Division of Music
