Taylor Weinstock, '11, will be the featured soloist in the May 11 concert.

The Carthage Wind Orchestra will conclude its 2010-2011 season with a May 11 concert in A. F. Siebert Chapel that bids farewell to its graduating seniors, and also pays tribute to the relief efforts on behalf of those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

Featured soloist on the program will be Taylor Weinstock, a senior music education major from Naperville, Ill., and president of the Carthage Bands. Mr. Weinstock will perform the first movement of Edward Gregson's Tuba Concerto.

There are 18 seniors graduating from the Carthage Bands, and the concert will celebrate their accomplishments, thank them for their service, and reflect on their collective contributions. Central to the works being performed is the finale of Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell Symphony, a truly unique work where the performers leave the stage as they conclude their particular parts — but while the music is still being played. The Concert Band will also perform James Barnes' A Light in the Wilderness, and Andrew Boysen's I Am, both works reflecting on faith and hope in the face of personal loss.

Music by the Wind Orchestra is centered on the recent tragedy in Japan, a country visited by the ensemble during January of this year. Yasuhide Ito's Gloriosa, a three-movement tone poem, is based on the tragic history of Nagasaki, but is highly reflective of Japan's current situation. In addition, an arrangement of Gustav Mahler's Urlicht from Symphony No. 2 and a new work based on recent events by Philip Sparke, The Sun Will Rise Again, will be performed.

A freewill offering will be taken up in support of the American Red Cross and their Japan relief effort. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m., with doors opening at 7 p.m.