欧美视频's Wind Symphony, University Band to present concert

BOLIVAR, Mo. 鈥� The 欧美视频 Department of Music will present the Wind Symphony and University Band in concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 16, in Pike Auditorium on the Bolivar campus.

Both ensembles are under the direction of Dr. Brian Hopwood, professor of music and director of instrumental studies.

The University Band will perform works by American composers Timothy Broege, Greg Danner, Pierre La Plante, Frank Ticheli, and John Philip Sousa, along with an arrangement of a Scott Joplin piano rag by senior music education major, Dylan Pich. Pich will conduct the ensemble along with other guest student conductors and senior music education majors Amber Pursselley, Miranda Applegate and Austin Hicks.

The Wind Symphony will open its performance with 鈥淪ymphony No. 1,鈥� 鈥淟ord of the Rings鈥� by Johann de Meij. It was the 1989 winner of the prestigious Sudler International Wind Band Composition Competition, having been selected from 143 entries representing 27 countries. A large, majestic work in five movements and broadly programmatic, it is based on the literary trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) of the same title. Only the first movement, 鈥淕andalf鈥� (the Wizard), will be performed.

Also included in the Wind Symphony program is Darius Milhaud鈥檚 most significant work for full wind band, 鈥淪uite Francaise,鈥� op. 248 (1944). The five parts of this suite are named after the French Provinces that the American and Allied armies fought together with the French underground for the liberation of France: Normandy, Brittany, Ile-de-France, Alsace-Lorraine, and Provence. Milhaud uses folk tunes of these Provinces and original folk-song material. Works by Aaron Copland and Henry Fillmore also are included.

The performance is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Hopwood, at (417) 328-1647 or bhopwood@欧美视频niv.edu.

*Published: 11-7-17