May 12, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michele Abba
Cal Poly Music Department
805-756-2406
Cal Poly Wind Orchestra, Ensemble
To Present Spring Band Concert June 7
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Cal Poly’s University Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble will present “Symphonies, Saxophones and Superheroes” at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 7, in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Center’s Christopher Cohan Center.
The Spring Band Concert will feature saxophone Professor Robert Caron in Roger Boutry’s “Divertimento for Saxophone and Orchestra.” Associate Director of Bands Christopher Woodruff will conduct the Wind Ensemble in Eric Whitacre’s “Godzilla Eats Las Vegas.”
Student conductor Amanda Yoshimizu will conduct the final movement of Frank Ticheli’s Symphony No. 2, titled “Apollo Unleashed,” and the Cal Poly Saxophone Quartet No. 1 will be featured in Bob Mintzer’s “Rhythm of the Americas.”
Other works to be performed include Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide Overture,” William Schuman’s “Chester,” David Gillingham’s “No Shadow of Turning," and Percy Grainger’s “Children’s March.”
The concert will conclude with the final movement of Michael Daugherty’s “Metropolis Symphony” titled “Red Cape Tango,” which was inspired by the comic strip Superman. “The work has musical moments that are ‘faster than a speeding bullet’ and ‘can leap tall buildings in a single bound,’” said Cal Poly Music Professor and Director of Bands William Johnson.
The concert is sponsored by Cal Poly’s Music Department, College of Liberal Arts, and Instructionally Related Activities program. Tickets are $8 to $19 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (756-2787).
For more information, call the Music Department at 756-2406.
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