Miami University

Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band concert April 29

04/23/2009

The Miami University Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble, directed by Gary A. Speck, will perform a joint concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, in Hall Auditorium.

The Symphony Band will present a varied program including John Cheetham’s “Fanfare and Steeplechase,” Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Acrostic Song” by David del Tredici, “Children’s March” by Percy Aldridge Grainger and Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance.

The Wind Ensemble repertoire includes “Symphonic Dances” from “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein, El Salon Mexico and “The Promise of Living” by Aaron Copland, “Cathedrals” by Kathryn Salfelder and Canzon Primi Toni by Giovanni Gabrieli.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the music department, 529-3014.