Pianist Amanda Hopson and Three Faculty Colleagues Present 'Journey's End'

April 28, 2007

April 28, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - As the 2006-07 academic year draws to a close, members of the DePauw University School of Music faculty present a recital, "Journey’s End." Pianist Amanda Hopson (pictured) will be joined by vocalists Gabriel Crouch and Caroline Smith, and flutist Anne Reynolds. The Thursday, May 3 concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center's Thompson Recital Hall and is presented free of charge.

The program will present a potpourri of moving and evocative works for the various chamber ensembles, representing the feeling of a destination reached -- whether the ‘journey’ spans just a day or an entire lifetime -- and will include some of the final compositions of Johannes Brahms and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Along this vein, the very poignant set of Epitaphs by the American composer Theodore Chanler will be performed.

A featured composition in the program will be The Deepest Desire for voice, piano, and flute by acclaimed contemporary composer Jake Heggie (seen at right). The piece is based on writings of Sister Helen Prejean, who previously collaborated in the composer’s celebrated opera Dead Man Walking and visited DePauw as a guest of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series in 1997. Heggie was the featured composer in last year’s “Music of the 21st Century” residency at DePauw, and this concert presents a wonderful opportunity to hear one of his unpublished works.

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