Concert to feature soloists

Published 11:59 am Thursday, April 11, 2019

The Longwood Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensembles will combine for their annual semester-ending concert Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Jarman Auditorium on the Longwood University campus. Each of the groups will feature a number of student soloists and conductors.

Opening the concert will be the 45-member Wind Symphony, conducted by Dr. Gordon Ring. They will begin with a performance of “Contraption,” conducted by student conductor Andrea Busch, a senior music education major from Bluestone High School. Baritone saxophone soloist Joshua Golub, a senior music education major from Williamsburg, will play Mark Watters’ “Rhapsody for Baritone Saxophone and Wind Orchestra.” Busch and Golub were chosen to perform by winning the student soloist and conductor competitions held last fall. The Wind Symphony will close their part of the program with “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral” from the opera, Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner, which will feature nine alumni trumpet players representing three decades of Wind Symphony members. Finally, they will end with the march “Pathfinder of Panama” by John Philip Sousa.

After a short intermission the second group to perform will be the Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Charles Kinzer. Their program will include three works, “So What” by Miles Davis, “Five of Seven” by Dr. Gordon Ring, and “Get It On” by Bill Chase, which will again feature the alumni trumpets.

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Admission to the concert is free and the public is welcome.