Great Escape: Carroll University Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble

As spring approaches and nature’s new beginnings draw reflection, a special event at 8 p.m. Friday, March 11 is dedicated to life’s memorable events, people and ideas, through the arts.

“Music and Poetry of Homage and Remembrance" is a joint concert presented by Lawrence Dale Harper, conductor of the Carroll University Wind Symphony, and Rick Kirby, director of the school’s Jazz Ensemble, at Shattuck Music Center, 218 N. East Avenue, on the Waukesha campus.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students and seniors 60 and older.

For the event’s program, Harper, who is also Professor of Music and Director of the Wind and Percussion Institute, wrote, "In this performance tonight we would like to invite you to reflect on the place of memory in your life. Certainly, art objects are among the most effective means by which we supply richness to the texture of our lives through remembering and paying homage to events, people, and ideas that have been particularly meaningful to us. In the music and poetry presented we explore several different avenues to memory, giving reverence and form to experiences that have shaped us as spiritual beings."

He said poetry by D.H. Lawrence, Walt Whitman, and other literary icons will be read by the musicians throughout the evening as well.

“The wind ensemble is a group who really takes its music seriously,” said Harper. “They have traveled to Europe and recorded CDs, and this is a wonderful representation of what we can do at a liberal arts college.”

For more information, contact the Carroll University box office at (262) 524-7633.