September 20, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — You're invited to enjoy the season opening performance of the DePauw University Orchestra , this Sunday, September 25. The music begins at 3 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, located within DePauw's Judson and Joyce Green Center. The performance is presented free of admission charge and is open to all.
The free concert, entitled "Inspiring Landscapes," features the largest DePauw Orchestra in many years, with 70 student musicians. It will be simulcast live on WGRE, and can be heard locally on 91.5 FM or worldwide via this link.
"We are pleased to offer our audiences this exciting group of young musicians who have already impressed with their passion for playing," explains Orcenith Smith, conductor of the orchestra and professor of music. "This orchestra's full size 
suggests powerful sonic images that are featured in these extraordinary musical landscapes."
The Sunday concert includes Roman Carnival by French composer Hector Berlioz, American composer Aaron Copland's Prairie Night and Celebration Dance from the ballet Billy the Kid, Scandinavian/American composer Howard Hanson's "Nordic" Symphony, and Dubinushka by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Founded in 1884, the DePauw University School of Music is the nation's sixth-oldest private institution for post-secondary music instruction and the longest-running in Indiana. Learn more here.