The Gamelan Ensemble plays tuned percussion instruments and interweaves numerous simultaneous melodies to produce a complex but intriguing musical texture. The gamelan to be performed at Drake was commissioned and constructed in the Javanese city of Yogyakarta in 1983. The program also includes on traditional Javanese dance. Admission is free to the workshop and concert. John Canarina will conduct the orchestra in its annual Young Artists Concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main.
Admission is free.
Drake Jazz Ensemble II and Drake Concert Band, conducted by Patrick Kearney and Clarence Padilla, will team up for a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 22, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Admission is free. Call the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at 271-3841. More than 60 works of art by students at Drake University will be on exhibit from Sunday, April 18, through May 9 in the Anderson Gallery in the Harmon Fine Arts Center. They include paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, graphic design, interior design and jewelry.