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November Music Performances

November 12, 2003

CARROLLTON, GA - Music lovers can enjoy two evenings of performances by various University of West Georgia ensembles on Nov. 17 and 18.

Several instrumental groups will combine in concert on Monday, Nov. 17, at 8:15 p.m. in room 331 (the Band Room) of the Humanities Building. The UWG Saxophone Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and Tuba/Euphonium Ensembles will perform in the Band Room to allow for the space requirements of the percussion studio.

The low brass, directed by Martin Cochran, will play a composition by student performer Kenyon Wilson, Bruckner’s Ave Maria, and Tubarometer by Lennie Niehaus. The Saxophone Ensemble, directed by John Bleuel, will play arrangements of spirituals by William Schmidt, a late-Renaissance sacred work by William Byrd, and a modern work, Ceremonie, by composer Edith Lejet. The percussion and guitar ensembles, directed by Douglas Overmier and Thomas Garcia, will also perform several works.

On Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 8:15 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts, the UWG Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will perform Harvest Holiday Harmonies II, featuring soloists Larry Frazier and Jennifer Andall, with piano and organ accompaniment by Wayne Gilreath, Charlene Wiggins, and Jan Adams.

The choir, which is directed by Kevin Hibbard and graduate assistant Vicki Orme, will sing works appropriate to the season of praise and thanksgiving. Cesar Franck’s setting of Psalm 150, Beethoven’s Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives and a setting of She Walks in Beauty will be followed by John Rutter’s All Things Bright and Beautiful and Copland’s The Promise of Living. Other selections include Brahms’s Abendlied, What a Wonderful World, and He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.

Both events are free and the public is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please call the Department of Music at 770-836-6516.

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