Two graduate students in the School of Music who won this year’s
Concerto Competition will be the featured performers at the Illinois State
University Symphony Orchestra concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 8, in the
Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $8 for faculty-staff and $7 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are available at the CPA box office from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays, by phone at (309) 438-2535, on line at www.cfa.ilstu.edu/cpa/tickets/ or through Ticketmaster.
Jessica Boese, a graduate student from Shorewood studying clarinet, will perform the Aaron Copland Concerto for Clarinet and Strings. Kenneth Wendt, a graduate student from Medina, Ohio, studying trumpet, will perform the Eino Tamberg Concerto for Trumpet. Both will perform with the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Glenn Block, director of orchestras and opera.
Also on the program will be the Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein, as a preview to the complete production which will be performed by the School of Music and School of Theatre in April. The orchestra also will play two orchestra showpieces by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, “Fountains of Rome” and “Pines of Rome.” The two compositions call for large orchestra, augmented brass and organ, and are among the most colorful and exciting in the entire orchestral repertoire, according to Block.
