With two violins, a double bass and a diverse repertoire of music, Time for Three introduced the fifth performance of the Guest Artist Series last Monday night.
Performing pieces ranging from Bach to Katy Perry, the trio entertained an audience of School of Music members, the Greencastle community and students of the College of Liberal Arts. According to Dean Mark McCoy, attracting a diverse audience is one of the many goals of the Guest Artist Series.
"[The concerts] are designed to be appealing to the students in the College of Liberal Arts as well as the School of Music and the community," McCoy said. "[The artists] play a wide variety of music so that they are attractive to College of Liberal Arts students, faculty and the community."
When it comes to Time for Three, the artists attracted students not just through their music, but through the performance they gave. School of Music freshmen Crystal Lau and Erin Tolar both enjoyed just watching the trio perform, and McCoy sees this type of performance as something to attract people from all musical backgrounds.
"Everyone loves these guys whether they know anything about classical music or not," he said. "They put on a very funny but very high energy and virtuosic show."
Lau saw this high energy and musical talent at the show and noted how Time for Three "glows on the stage."
"We can see how much they enjoy performing as musicians," Lau said.
Tolar equally enjoyed the performance and felt that it helped to combat the stereotypes of classical musicians that she sometimes comes across.
"So often classical music is viewed as boring and stuffy," Tolar said. "People picture you in a practice room for hours a day. To see [Time for Three] on stage and just so alive and loving every second of it was incredible."
Junior Kristen Otto is one liberal arts student who was attracted to the concert. She enjoyed not just the music, like her favorite song "Little Lion Man" from Mumford and Sons, but also the "high energy" of the musicians during the show.
"I thought they were very charismatic and obviously very talented,"Otto said. "I like having a mix - classical with some contemporary music."
Otto did not know about the concert, however, until the day of the performance. Lau also thinks that Time for Three's concert was not as well advertised to the College of Liberal Arts as it could have been, citing how many of the students in the audience were from the School of Music to support her claim. Both Otto and Lau wished for more connection between Time for Three and students in the College of Liberal Arts.
"It'd be cool if they, outside of the concerts, could be available to give talks like visiting professors and people do," Otto said. "I'm sure they have quite a few thoughts on music and academics and that would be available to College of Liberal Arts students as well as the School of Music."
The beauty of Time for Three's concert, according to Tolar, was its "audience friendly," style, both in the attitude of the performance and the type of music performed.
"I think anyone could have come into that concert and really enjoyed it whether they knew anything about music or not," Tolar said. "That's one of the great things about the Guest Artist Series. It brings the School of Music and College of Liberal Arts students together."
