January 6, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michele Abba
Cal Poly Music Department
805-756-2406; music@calpoly.edu
Cal Poly Music Ensembles to Give Benefit Chamber Concert at Mission Feb. 6
SAN LUIS OBISPO - Several of Cal Poly's finest student music ensembles will perform traditional and contemporary chamber music at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 in the Old Mission Church in San Luis Obispo.
“A Night at the Mission” will include performances by the Wind Quintets, Wind Dectet, Saxophone Quartets, Trombone Choir, Clarinet Quartet, String Quintet, Brass Quintet and Brass Ensemble. The event will help raise funds for more than 60 student-musicians to perform at the Walt Disney Concert Hall during the 2010 Los Angeles International Music Festival in June.
The Wind Ensemble has been selected to perform as the Showcase Ensemble at the four-day event. For more information, visit http://windorchestra.calpoly.edu.
Tickets are $8 and $10 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets may also be purchased at the door the night of the concert.
To order tickets by phone, call 805-756-2787 (SLO-ARTS). A 10 percent discount is given to patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket office; a 15 percent discount is given on tickets to five or more events.
For more information about the benefit concert, contact the Cal Poly Music Department at 805-756-2406 or http://music.calpoly.edu. "A Night at the Mission" is sponsored by the Cal Poly Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program.
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