SU Wind Ensemble Present Spring Concert April 30
SALISBURY, MD-- The Salisbury University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Richard L. Johnson, presents its annual spring concert on Tuesday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Holloway Hall Auditorium. The performance, free and open to the general public, is sponsored, in part, by funding from SU's Fulton School of Liberal Arts.
Performance selections include Earl Slocum's 1964 wind-band transcription of Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma', Op. 36 (1898-9), Edward Elgar (1857-1934). The Variations brought Elgar to national prominence on their production by Hans Ritcher at St. James Hall, London, in June 1988. They are considered by many to be the most distinguished British orchestral work to date.
Other notable selections include Morton Gould's Symphony for Band (West Point), commissioned in 1952 to celebrate the academy's sesquicentennial of the West Point Academy.
Percy Aldridge Grainger's Immovable "Do" (or the Cyphering "C") draws its title from one of two kinds of Tonic Sol-fa musical notation, one with 'movable Do' and the other with 'immovable Do', in which Do always designates the note C.
The Ensemble performs a pair of works by Samuel Barber.
During Barber's first year of military service, he composed two works, the Commando March (1943) for band and his Second Symphony, which was dedicated to the Army Air Corps.
Other selections performed by the SU Wind Ensemble include "Ermund Dich, Mein Schwanter Geist" from Three Chorale Preludes (1958) by William P. Latham, "As Summer Was Just Beginning" (1994) by Larry Daehn, and "Bugs" (2000) by Roger Cichy (ASCAP).
Established in 1989 as the Wind Sinfonia, the Salisbury University Wind Ensemble represents some of the finest wind, brass and percussion performers on the Eastern Shore.
Ensemble Director Dr. Richard L. Johnson is associate professor of music and chair to the SU Department of Music.
For more information call the SU Public Relations Office at 410-543-6030 or visit the SU Web site, www.salisbury.edu.