Hi, my name is Melissa Givens, Assistant Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and I’d like to welcome you to the opening podcast in our new series “Mid-Week Musical Interludes.”
 
Throughout this new series we want to share with you an array of glorious new and not-so-new works as recently performed by faculty, guests and students of Pomona College. 
 
Our hope is that we will whisk you off to another time and place, or introduce you to something fun and unusual through our chosen selections. The program will present music from Balinese Gamelan to Classical and Jazz to more contemporary sounds, including compositions by Beethoven, Couperin, Franck, Handel, Ibert, and our very own faculty composer Tom Flaherty, among many others.
 
So, settle in, relax, and enjoy our first “Mid-Week Musical Interlude.” We hope that you will visit us again next week for our second installment. For more information on the music from this podcast, visit us at pomona.edu slash musicpodcast, that’s all one word. 

Today’s podcast features the third movement of the Brahms Requiem, performed by the Pomona College Choir and Orchestra, Eric Lindholm, conductor, and Donna Di Grazia, choir director.  Steven Pence is the baritone soloist.