UMaine Concert, Symphonic Bands Share MCA Stage
Contact: Karen Cole, (207) 581-4704, George Manlove (207) 581-3756
ORONO — The UMaine Concert Band and Symphonic Band will perform Sunday, April 17 in Hutchins Concert Hall in the Maine Center for the Arts.
The roughly 65-member concert band will open the program at 7:30 p.m. The symphonic band, with 61 musicians, will perform second, after a brief intermission.
Concert band director Christopher White has planned a program of traditional band music, including “In the Forest of the King” by Pierre La Plante and “Incantation and Dance” by John Barnes Chance.
The university symphonic band will perform a program of band literature selected from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The band is directed by Curvin Farnham, associate professor of music. Assistant conductors are graduate students in conducting Gina Provenzano and Dean Paquette.
Their program will include “Southern Harmony” by Donald Grantham, “La Forza Del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi and “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillips Sousa. The band also will play “Ode for Trumpet” by Alfred Reed, featuring Jack Burt, UMaine professor of trumpet and professional trumpet player.
Admission for the concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m. is $6, and free for UMaine students with a MaineCard. Ticket information is available by calling the Maine Center for the Arts box office at 581-1755.