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In Memory of Five Friends

On the evening of April 20, 2006, five Indiana University School of Music graduate students died in a plane crash as they returned from a rehearsal in Lafayette, Indiana.

Chris Carducci, Garth Eppley, Georgina Joshi, Zachary Novak, and Robert Samels were accomplished musical performers with brilliant careers ahead of them when their lives were cut short.

On the tenth anniversary of this tragic event, WFIU remembers the lives of these remarkable young people with a memorial program featuring recordings they made during their time at Indiana University.