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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