May 13, 2004

Dunbar Festival starts today

The School of Music will present the 2004 Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival from today (May 13) to May 16.
The festival events will be held at several venues on the Evanston campus. Highlights include:

Early Music Master Class, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 13, Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place. Panelists Mary Springfels, Kurt Hansen, Stephen Alltop, David Douglass and Monteverdi scholar Jeffrey Kurtzman will critique singers and instrumentalists from Northwestern and the community as they perform selections from Monteverdi’s “Vespers.” Admission is free. Interested participants should contact Stephen Alltop at swa440@northwestern.edu.

Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610,” 6 p.m. pre-concert talk and 7 p.m. concert, Sunday, May 16, Alice Millar Chapel and Religious Center.

For more information, call Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at (847) 491-5441.