Oct. 31 university's fall instrumental concert
Bluffton University will hold its annual fall instrumental concert at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 31, in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert will feature the Jazz Band and the Concert Band. It will also be the debut performance of the Bluffton University Chamber Winds. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Concert Band will perform "Amparito Roca," a concert march written by Jaime Teixidor. The piece will be directed by Findlay High School graduate and senior music education major Alycia Althaus. The band will also be premiering, Three Songs of Gathering by Bluffton faculty member Peter Terry. It features three prominent hymns, "We Gather Together," "Here Among Us," and "How Brightly Beams the Morning Star." They will also be performing a piece by Bruce Yurko entitled "Night Dances."
The Bluffton University Chamber Winds will make its debut performance by performing three movements from a piece entitled "Carmina Burana." Composed by Carl Orff, and originally for choir and orchestra, the piece has been translated into many different mediums.
The Bluffton University Chamber Winds is a small group consisting of some of Bluffton's finest instrumentalists. For each concert they perform, the Chamber Winds will have a different set of instrumentation. For this concert there will be two flutists, two clarinetists, two French horn players, two trumpet players, one trombone player, one euphonium player, and three percussionists.
The Jazz Band will be performing six pieces at the concert. One of the pieces, "Love is Here to Stay," was composed by George and Ira Gershwin and arranged by Dave Wolpe. It will feature first-year student Andrew Shank (Bluffton) on the tenor saxophone. Another selection, "It Don't Mean a Thing," will feature vocal soloist, senior Philip Schey (Forest).
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