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Fischoff Competition Gold Medal Winners — September 29 and November
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South Bend, specifically DPAC, has the privilege of hosting the Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition every year. The largest and oldest of

such competitions, students and professionals convene on Notre Dame from
around America — and even from abroad — to perform and participate in the
festival. This year’s competition will take place at DPAC from May 10 to May
12, a must-see if you’re still on campus. The winners will return next fall to
perform in the Presenting Series, the wind category winner in September
and the string category winner in November. No matter who wins the spots,

it’s bound to be good.

London Philharmonic Orchestra — October 16

This March, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields — one of the greatest

chamber orchestras of all time since its founding by Sir Neville Marriner in
1958 — visited DPAC with virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell simultaneously
performing and conducting. Next fall, we’ll be treated to another great
British orchestra on tour, the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). To be
honest, I’m not as excited about the LPO as I was about St. Martin’s. St.

Martin’s has a unique, unrivaled string sonority (not the way it used to, of
course, but it’s still nothing to wag your finger at). The LPO, on the other
hand, sounds like every other London orchestra — like the London
Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic and the Philharmonia and the BBC
Symphony. Frankly, it sounds like every other orchestra, period. You might
as well take the South Shore Line into the city some weekend to see the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) — you’ll get the same sound, and better

executed too.

Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Winton Marsalis — January 31

A week after they’re set to play at the CSO’s Symphony Center, Winton
Marsalis (the greatest living jazz trumpeter) and the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra (the greatest working big band) are coming to DPAC. South Bend
sustains a healthy jazz community centered around Merriman’s Playhouse, a
jazz venue which pulls acts from Chicago and the coasts. This show, though,
is going to be a special treat.

Nathan Gunn and Mandy Patinkin — April 11