Southeastern Louisiana University

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS NOTICE CONTACT
DAVID EVENSON AT DEVENSON@SELU.EDU
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The nationally acclaimed Southeastern Louisiana University Wind
Symphony will present its spring concert in the Columbia Theatre for
the Performing Arts on Thursday, May 1st, at 7:30 pm. Titled "No
Strings Attached," the concert focuses on works originally composed
for orchestra, and presented in transcribed setting for wind
symphony. Southeastern's Wind Symphony is comprised of the finest
wind and percussion musicians attending Southeastern, and is a large
concert ensemble committed to the highest standards of performance.

The concert will open with Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common
Man," a work for brass and percussion that was commissioned by the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1943. It's majestic, sweeping
signature fanfare is widely recognized as one of the best-known in
the repertoire. Next will be Antonin Dvorak's four movement
"Symphony No. 9, Op. 95," subtitled "From the New World." Premiered
in 1893, it has become one of the best-loved works from his time in
America, where he served as a conductor at the National Conservatory
of Music. "Festive Overture, Op. 96" by Dmitri Shostakovich will
begin the second half of the program. Closing out the concert will
be Modest Moussorgsky's sweeping masterpiece, "Pictures at an
Exhibition." Originally composed for piano, the music was created in
response to a specific art exhibit dedicated to his close friend,
Viktor Hartmann. The music takes the listener on a walk through the
gallery, stopping to reflect on the paintings on display. "Pictures
at an Exhibition" has gained tremendous popularity since its
arrangement for orchestra by Maurice Ravel, and later for wind
symphony by longtime University of Illinois conductor Mark
Hindsley. The suite explores the fantastic and the bizarre depicted
in the exhibit, and concludes with the immensely powerful "Great Gate of Kiev."

The concert will be held in the Columbia Theatre for the Performing
Arts, 220 East Thomas Street in downtown Hammond. Admission is $6.00
for adults, and $4.00 for seniors, faculty, and staff. All students
with ID, regardless of age, are admitted free of charge. Doors to
the Columbia Theatre will open at 6:45 pm. For further information,
contact the Southeastern Bands at 549-2599.

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