Bowling Green, Ky. - The Western Kentucky University Music Department’s 12th Annual Scholarship Concert titled “We Serve Up Only the Best . . . Now All We Need is a Flippin’ Audience” will begin at 7:30 p.m. May 4 at Van Meter Auditorium.

The featured performing group will be the world-renowned Wind Ensemble (a 54-piece band) conducted by Dr. John C. Carmichael. Admission is $5 with proceeds used to fund instrumental scholarships at WKU.

The concert will feature at least one area premiere, three guest conductors, two outstanding soloists and a hot, hot tango.
Perhaps the most significant work on the program will be the southcentral Kentucky premiere of a new clarinet concerto “Desert Roads” by David Maslanka. The soloist will be Dr. John Cipolla, professor of clarinet at WKU.

Also featured will be the student winners of the concerto and conductor competitions. Scottsville’s Megan Wheat, concerto soloist, will perform the Concerto in C for Oboe by Franz Joseph Haydn. Bowling Green’s Chris Westover was selected by a faculty jury to conduct the first movement of Sullivan’s “Pineapple Poll.”

One of the hottest new compositions written for any medium is John Mackey’s “Redline Tango.” It is a wonderful combination of new and more traditional sounds set in the framework of a irregular tango. The Wind Ensemble’s presentation of this award-winning selection is also a premiere in southcentral Kentucky.

Other selections include “Circuits” by Cindy McTee which will be conducted by Eric Smedley, associate director of bands at WKU; the finale from Umberto Giordano’s opera entitled “Andrea Chenier”; some dance music from “West Side Story’; and a circus march by Henry Fillmore.

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For information, contact Music Department at (270) 745-3751.

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