Convocation: "Diverging Roads and Crossing Paths: The Collaborative Process in Poetry and Music"

12/02/2009 - 1:00pm
12/02/2009 - 3:00pm
Etc/GMT-5

Wednesday, December 2, 1:00 P.M.

Goddard Auditorium, Carpenter Hall

David Arbury's choral music has been performed by top choirs and appears on three CDs.  His compositions have been featured at the Society of Composers, the Percussive Arts Society, the University of Maryland and LAVAL Virtual.  The work of Earlham graduate Lisa Pegram '97 appears in Bum Rush the Page, Beyond the Frontier, and Beats, Rhymes and Life.  Her music has garnered repeat performances at The Kennedy Center, Fete de la Musique of the French Embassy, DC Hip Hop Theater Festival and the London International Festival of Theater. Arbury and Pegram discuss how music, lyrics and friendship can coalesce during the collaborative process.  Concert Choir and the Rhythm Project illustrate this process with excerpts from a work commissioned by Earlham College by Arbury and Pegram and making its world premiere on Friday, December 4.

Free admission, no tickets required.

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