Contemporary compositions for concert band performed April 22

Posted April 16, 2015 at 11:10 a.m.

BOONE—Works from the 20th and 21st centuries will be performed April 22 by The Appalachian Concert Band during the 2015 Contemporary Music Festival sponsored by the Rho Tau Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at Appalachian State University.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free. The concert begins with Fanfare of the Bells by William Gordon conducted by John Stanley Ross.

Graduate student Onsby Rose will conduct Frank Ticheli’s Shenandoah inspired by the popular folk melody.

Graduate student Matthew Brusseau will conduct Tucheli’s “Cajun Folk Songs II,” also inspired by folk melodies and “Loch Lomond,” another folk-song inspired composition by Ticheli. Brusseau also will conduct Jan Van der Roost’s “Puszta: Four Gypsy Dances.”

Rose returns to the podium to conduct John Zdechlik’s “Chorale and Shaker Dance” based on the Shaker hymn “Tis The Gift to be Simple” and John Barnes Chance’s “Variations on a Korean Folk Song.”

The program concludes with John Philip Sousa’s “The Washington Post March” conducted by Kevin Gray Richardson.

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