Event

DePauw University Choirs

ARTSFEST 2016: ART & UTOPIA
DePauw University Chorus and DePauw Chamber Singers
Kristina Boerger, director of choirs
Green Center, Kresge Auditorium

A contemplation of utopia and dystopia will be heard from a variety of perspectives during Sundays ArtsFest performance, More Perfect, a program of poems, belief statements, political projects and musical expressions created by DePauws combined choirs directed by Boerger, in collaboration with DePauw Pre-Law students advised by Christine Munn. The culminating work, Benjamin Yarmolinksys oratorio The Constitution, which concludes both the concert and ArtsFest 2016, presents words hewn by our nations founders and leaders in their attempts to construct the best society on which they could agree. After singing several Amendments of interest, DePauw Pre-Law students will present reflections on the Amendments utopian successes and on unintended, dystopian consequences. Also included on the program will be choral offerings from sacred and secular traditions including Corsican polyphony, a Brahms motet, and settings of poems by Yeats.

General admission: $5
Tickets for seniors, youth and all students are free.