ISU Wind Symphony, Faculty Jazz Quartet Share Concert Stage

Date: 9/13/06
Contact: Marc Lebovitz

Two popular musical ensembles in the School of Music at Illinois State University will be sharing the stage in a concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, in the Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall.

The Wind Symphony, conducted by Professor Steve Steele, director of Bands, will performing during the first half of the concert. After intermission, the Faculty Jazz Quartet will take the stage featuring saxophonist Jim Boitos, pianist Charlie Stokes, bass player William Koehler and drummer Thomas Marko.

Admission to the "two-concerts-in-one" evening is $6 for the general public, $5 for faculty-staff and $4 for students and senior citizens.

The Wind Symphony will perform Holst's "First Suite in E flat," "October" by Eric Whitacre, and Paul Hindemith's "Symphony in B flat."

The second half of the concert will see the Faculty Jazz Quartet playing "Tango Sweet," a piece by Western Michigan University musician and professor Trent Kynaston. The piece has two contrasting movements and features the lead and solo playing of the jazz quartet. Boitos will be performing on both the soprano and tenor saxophones.