Admission is free. Andrew Classen, assistant professor for jazz studies and band trumpet director will direct top jazz ensembles from area high schools in a concert featuring trumpeter Mike Vax Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. Admission is free. Drake University Bands will present works by Ito, Grainger, Jager and Hart March 1 at 3 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. Robert Meunier, associate professor of percussion and director of bands, will conduct.
Admission is free.
Before embarking on a tour of Chicago, Ill., and Indiana, the Drake Choir and Chamber Choir will perform March 3 at 8 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium. The tour program includes works by Debussy, Vaughan Williams and Barber, as well as folk songs from Ireland, Newfoundland and New England. The choirs are conducted by Aimee Beckmann-Collier, associate professor of conducting and director of choral activities. Admission is free. This London and Broadway stage hit, made into two major motion pictures, explores the workings of the mind of a psychopathic, but brilliant, murderer.