Around the Boyd Podcast – Music Events 4/17/09 – 4/23/09

Around the Boyd Podcast – Music Events
Music events from Friday, April 17 – Thursday, April 23, 2009

Symphony Orchestra – Wind Ensemble Concert

The Department of Music will present both the University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Marian Dura and the Wind Ensemble directed by Dr. Hubert Toney, Jr. in  concert on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Marwick-Boyd Auditoirum. The afternoon’s concert will begin with the Symphony Orchestra performing Overture to Zampa by L.J. Ferdinand Herold, Leroy Anderson’s famous work The Typewriter, Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla by Mikhail Glinka, and conclude with Geroge Bizet’s Suite No. 1 from Carmen.

The second half of the performance features the Wind Ensemble in a concert titled “Fortress of the Rose.” Opening, the Wind Ensemble will perform Fanfare from La Péri by Paul Dukas, followed by Moderato quasi Marci from Serenade in D minor, op. 44 by Antonin Dvorak. Mark Camphouse’s A Movement for Rosa and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Rhosymedre follow. The afternoon’s concert concludes with Fortress of the Rose by Reber Clark.

The concert is FREE and open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of Music at 814-393-2287.