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Music department sponsors Wind Symphony
February 12, 2003
CARROLLTON, GA - The University of West Georgia Department of Music will sponsor the UWG Wind Symphony Concert on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 8:15 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts.
The Wind Symphony, which is conducted by Dr. Scott McBride, chair of the Music Department, consists of about 40 music students who play a variety of wind instruments.
Works to be performed include “A Festival Prelude” by Alfred Reed, a setting of Bach’s “Komm, Süsser Tod (Come, Sweet Death),” the “Country Dance” from Cajun Folk Songs II by Frank Ticheli, the “First Suite in E-flat for Military Band” by “Planets” composer Gustav Holst, and a galop by Arthur Bird. “Semper Fidelis” by John Phillip Sousa will be conducted by band graduate assistant and former Marine Band member Steven Day.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the UWG Department of Music at 770-836-6516.
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