The Butler University Wind Ensemble will premiere two new pieces by faculty composers Frank Felice and Michael Schelle in the Schrott Center next Thursday. Both pieces challenge the traditional meaning of a revolution by society’s standards. Led by band director Robert Grechesky, the concert is part of the two-week Butler ArtsFest. Felice’s piece, “Revolution Calling,”…
REVOLUTION! Long in the making, first annual ArtsFest set to open
The theme of revolution will be at the forefront of various artistic performances and displays in the first Butler University ArtsFest. ArtsFest will feature more than 40 performances and other events between April 18-28. This is the first ArtsFest, which is to become an annual event. It will be used, in part, to honor the…
Percussion master part of Butler ArtsFest
Butler jazz ensembles will be performing with a world-famous percussionist at the 2013 Butler ArtsFest. Bobby Sanabria, a seven-time Grammy Award-nominated percussionist, will perform with two Butler big bands on Saturday, April 20. “When I was planning our involvement in the Artsfest, I wanted something that was going to be a really tremendous cultural experience…
Butler Theatre presents Lunar Revolution 2.0
The Butler theatre department is taking the theme of revolution to a whole new level this week with the opening of Lunar Revolution 2.0. Over the past few months, the cast and director William Fisher have been collaborating to create this devised piece based on Schoenberg’s 1912 melodrama, Pierrot Lunaire. Although Fisher said a bulk…