ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Wind Ensemble, Concert Band concert set April 17
April 15, 2009
The ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Wind Ensemble and Concert Band will perform their final program of the semester Friday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Jospeh C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Concert Hall in the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center. The Wind Ensemble is directed by Patrick Brooks, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï director of Bands, and Monte Grise, associate director of bands, directs the Concert Band.
The Concert Band will perform the "Second Suite in F For Band" by Gustav Holst, "Air for Band" by Frank Erickson, "Court Festival" by William Latham, and Aaron Copland’s "Down A Country Lane," in a transcription for band by Merlin Patterson.
They will perform "Idaho Celebration" by ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï music department chair and composer Randy Earles. Earles composed the work in 2008 after being awarded a commission by the Idaho Department of Education.
The Wind Ensemble will open with a brassy version of "The Pavane Battaille" by the renaissance composer Tylman Susato. They also will perform "George Washington Bridge (An Impression for Band)" by the American 20th-century composer William Schuman, and the first movement from "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Gran Partitia for 13 Winds, K. 361." ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï music student Nate Foxley will be the featured soloist for the evening on the tuneful "Rhapsody for Euphonium" by Jerry Brubaker. The Wind Ensemble will close the program with a performance Montana composer David Maslanka’s powerful work "Give Us This Day: Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble."
Admission to the concert is $6 general admission, $4 ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï faculty and staff, free for ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï students, and $2 for pre-college students. Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
For more information on this concert or about the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Bands, call Brooks at 282-3147 or visit the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï music department’s Web page at http://www.isu.edu/music/.
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