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Contact: Christina Chapple
Date: 12/2/02
| SOUTHEASTERN WIND SYMPHONY HEADLINES HONOR BAND FEST
CONCERT
HAMMOND -- The Southeastern Louisiana University Wind Symphony will headline the 2002 Department of Music and Dramatic Arts Collage Concert on Friday, December 6, at 7 p.m. The annual concert event features music students and faculty in a one-hour montage celebrating the 140 high school musicians selected for membership in the Southeastern Honor Band Festival. The concert is free of charge and will be held in the Pottle Music Building Auditorium. Performers include the Southeastern Trumpet Ensemble, mezzo-soprano Daveda Karanas, guitar professor Patrick Kerber, trombonist David Johansen, the Southeastern Faculty Woodwind Trio, saxophone instructor Allen Zurcher, graduate clarinet student Alexander Negruta, and soprano Jacquie Brecheen of Ponchatoula. The Wind Symphony will perform Dmitri Shostakovich's "Festive Overture" and Percy Grainger's "Lincolnshire Posy." Rounding out the evening will be guest conductor and composer Mark D. Camphouse conducting his latest work for wind band, "In Memoriam." Camphouse is director of Bands at Radford University and is at Southeastern as guest clinician and conductor of the 2002 High School Honors Wind Symphony. For further information, contact the Southeastern band office at 985-549-2599. |
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