November 3, 1999
Contact: Charla Jenkins, University Theatre, (785) 864-2684.
LAWRENCE -- The University Band, an 84-piece concert band at the University of Kansas, will present its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Lied Center at KU. Thomas M. Stidham, associate director of bands, is conductor of the University Band, assisted by Naoya Takizawa, Tokyo doctoral student.
To open the fall program, the band will play "On the Wings of the Chosen" by Roland Barrett, assistant director of bands at the University of Oklahoma.
The remainder of the University Band's program includes:
-- "Second Suite in F" by Gustav Holst, a work based entirely on material from folk songs and morris dances.
-- "Elegy for A Young American" by Ronald Lo Presti, written in 1964 and dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy Jr.
-- "Shenandoah" by Frank Tichelli, an arrangment of the well-known 19th-century folk song melody.
-- Selections from "Les Miserables" by Claude-Michel Schonberg, arranged by Warren Barker. Included are such hits as "At the End of the Day," "I Dreamed a Dream," "Master of the House," "On My Own," and "Do You Hear the People Sing?"
-- "Prairie Dances" by David Holsinger.
-- Four international marches including the grand march from Japan, "Celebration" by Ikuma Dan; from Great Britain, "Army of the Nile" by Kenneth J. Alford, edited by Frederick Fennell; from Spain, "La Oreja De Oro" by Mariano San Miguel, also edited by Fennell; and from Russia, "A Slavic Farewell" by Vasilij Agapkin, edited by John R. Bourgeois, former director of the U.S. Marine Band.
General admission tickets for the University Band concert are now on sale in the KU box offices: Lied Center, 864-ARTS; Murphy Hall, 864-3982; and SUA, 864-3477. Tickets are $5 for the public and $4 for students and senior citizens. Both VISA and MasterCard are accepted for phone orders.