October 9, 2001

Contact: Kerri Conan, School of Fine Arts, (785) 864-5567.

Brown Bag Classics offer great lunch time music in October

LAWRENCE -- October brings four lunch time performances to the University of Kansas campus as the School of Fine Arts' Brown Bag Classics continue every Wednesday from 12:30 to 1 p.m. in the Kansas Unionÿs Alderson Auditorium. Performances are public and free.

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, a soprano graduate student from Olathe, Susan Andrade, sings, and on Oct. 17, bassoonist and music theory professor Alan Hawkins performs. The Kansas Woodwinds, an ensemble that includes several members of the KU faculty, wrap up the month on Oct. 31.

Launched last year as a way to highlight School of Fine Arts performing artists, the Brown Bag Classics series makes the arts more accessible, with frequent gatherings in the community of the Kansas Union.

This year's program offers jazz, opera, piano, woodwind, string, voice and brass concerts. At the end of the series, faculty from the Department of Art and the Department of Design lead a lively roundtable about the creative process.

The audience is invited to bring along a lunch and enjoy a musical treat. The Kansas Union supplies the soda. For more information, contact the Department of Music and Dance at (785) 864-3436.