Oct 4
Guest Concert: Guns N' Rosenkavalier
Guns N' Rosenkavalier is a genre-busting fusion of an art song recital and a rock concert—truly the love child of Franz Schubert and Lady Gaga! This exhilarating performance promises a riot of rule-breaking, genre-bending fun, featuring arrangements that span from Van Halen to Schumann, Springsteen to Strauss, and Madonna to Brahms. Join us for an evening where the artistry of song recital meets the rebellious spirit of rock music.
- Andrew Wilkowske, guitar, vocals
- Lara Bolton, keyboards, vocals
- Kelley Rourke, English Lyrics
- Musical arrangements by John Glover, Andrew Wilkowske, and Lara Bolton
You can read more about Guns N' Rosenkavalier and view some of their work here: 'Guns n' Rosenkavalier' gives new meaning to 'rock opera'
"When people hear “classical,” they think “dead.” The music is described in terms of its distance from the present, its resistance to the mass—what it is not. You see magazines with listings for Popular Music in one section and for Classical Music in another, so that the latter becomes, by implication, Unpopular Music.
I have always wanted to talk about classical music as if it were popular music and popular music as if it were classical."
– Alex Ross
from Music Department