From BGSU EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE
The BGSU Early Music Ensemble will perform a Music for Food concert Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the planetarium on campus.
The concert, “Melodic Silhouettes,” the public performance is free with a suggested free will dnation of A suggested donation of $15 for an adult or $5 for a student. All funds raised at this concert will benefit Bowling Green’s Brown Bag Project. Click to donate directly to Brown Bag.
This concert is a program of music under the title Melodic Silhouettes and features instrumental and vocal music from before the 19th century. Included are works by Francesco Geminiani and Henry Purcell as well as ensemble pieces that feature the Oud, a Middle Eastern lute and the Kamancheh, an Iranian bowed stringed instrument.
The Planetarium director and Teaching Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Kate E. Dellenbusch, will be curating visuals for each piece on the program.
Music for Food is musician-led hunger relief initiative, raising resources and awareness in the fight against hunger. Music for Food chapters throughout the globe perform concerts where musicians donate their time and energy to the event and, in return, 100% of any funds raised by the audience will go directly to a local hunger relief organization.
