[BBCB-Mail] Upcoming Concert Events

[Leslie Palacios]

Following are two concert you may be interested in attending:
VT Horn Chior - Monday October 9 - 7pm in the Squires Recital Salon
VT Symphonic Wind Ensemble - Friday October 13 - 8pm Burruss Auditorium

MORE INFORMATION IS BELOW


Dear Music Patron:

I am pleased to invite you to the season-opening concert by Virginia Tech’s 
University Symphonic Wind Ensemble on Friday evening, October 13th, 
8:00p.m., Burruss Auditorium. For this event, we have two special guest 
collaborators: the Panjammers Steel Drum Orchestra and Mr. Mark Greeley, 
clarinet soloist.

The Wind Ensemble will begin the concert, opening with Richard Strauss’ 
Serenade, op. 7 for 13 Winds (1881), timeless music written by a late 
teenager! The full ensemble continues with short inclusions by Vaughan 
Williams and Bach, before featuring alumni guest soloist Mark Greeley in 
Martin Ellerby’s recent Clarinet Concerto (2000).

Rounding our their presentation will be a hymn for peace of Robert Spittal, 
another work of hope in response to tragedy by Robert Hutchinson, and a 
100th birthday salute for Dmitri Shostakovich: his Festive Overture, op. 96. 
Before intermission, the Wind Ensemble will be joined by Blacksburg’s own 
Panjammers Steel Drum Orchestra in a fun adaptation of an island classic, 
Ary Barosso’s Brazil.

The second half of the concert will include a festive set of tropical tunes 
from the Panjammers, directed by Richard Rudolf. This ensemble was formed in 
2004, and enjoys participation by about 30 adventurous “panners”, spanning 
more than two generations in age.

Tickets for the event are available at the door: $5.00 general admission, 
$3.00 for students and seniors.

Our University Symphonic Wind Ensemble has a full season of interesting 
music to explore and perform. Other concert dates and general information 
can be found at:

www.music.vt.edu/ensembles/uswe/

We hope you can join us for this first offering on Friday the 13th!

Warm regards,
Patrick F. Casey, Ph.D.
Wind Ensemble Conductor
Coordinator of Instrumental Ensembles
(540) 231-5503







Horn Recital: Calvin Smith, horn, and University of Tennessee horn students;
Wallace Easter, horn, and Virginia Tech horn students
7:00 pm, Monday, October 9, 2006 - Squires Recital Salon

If you are a horn player you can join the chior for the finale.  There will 
be a run through at 6:00pm prior to the concert at 7:00pm.

University of Tennessee horn professor Calvin Smith and Virginia Tech horn 
professor, Wallace Easter perform a recital of music for horn and piano, and 
horn ensemble. Pianist Tracy Cowden also performs, in addition to students 
from the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech.