Concert Band Spring Concert

Friday, April 15, 2011
P. E. Monroe Auditorium
8:00 p.m. p.m.
Free Admission

The Lenoir-Rhyne University Concert Band and the Lenoir-Rhyne University Wind Ensemble, both under the direction of conductor Daniel W. Kiser, will present a spring concert on Friday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m. in the P.E. Monroe Auditorium on campus. This concert is free and open to the public.

LRU senior music performance major Julia Byrd will be the featured soloist, performing the allegro molto moderato movement of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, opus 16. Byrd is from Icard, North Carolina. Following graduation from Lenoir-Rhyne in May, she plans to enter the graduate program in piano performance at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro where she will hold a graduate assistantship.

The Concert Band will also perform Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Halsey Stevens' Ukrainian Folk Song Suite, a delightful collection of eleven eastern European folk songs, as well as works by Arthur Sullivan, Robert Sheldon, and Julius Fuĉik.