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The Fall Band and Percussion Studio Concert will be available virtually Saturday, Nov. 14. There ... The Percussion Ensemble will join with the Concert Band and Wind Orchestra in a concert titled “Evolution in Sound” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. There is no live audience for this event. Watch the concert from home in real time through our livestream.

Each group’s selections provide a journey through the various sounds and styles associated with their development. Professor Michael Kozakis, instructor of percussion, will lead the Percussion Ensemble, and Professor James Ripley, director of Instrumental Music Activities, will conduct the Concert Band and Wind Orchestra.

Opening the concert is the Percussion Ensemble, playing a more traditional drumming piece by Anthony Cirone, “Four Four for Four.” Balancing that is a more contemporary approach to percussion writing by David Hall, “Escape Velocity.” The percussion portion of the concert ends with Evelyn Glennie’s “A Little Prayer” for marimba.

The Concert Band will then perform a wind band transcription for “A Little Prayer,” followed by Renaissance music by Arbeau, a Baroque collection of “Heldenmusik” (Heroic Music) by Telemann, and finish with two movements from William Grant Still’s “Folk Suite for Band.”

Wind Orchestra selections also traverse a variety of historical periods and styles, including “Terpsichore Dances” by Praetorius, “See What His Love Can Do” by J. S. Bach, “Collage” by Tetsunosuke Kushida, and finally the last movement on Carl Holmquist’s Symphony No. 1 — “Play!”

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Carthage Fine Arts

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