BOLIVAR, MO – The public is invited to a free concert by the Southwest Baptist University Symphonic Winds on Tuesday, November 20th at 7:30 p.m. in the Pike Auditorium on the SBU campus in Bolivar.  Works by Holst, Graham, Shostakovich, and Ticheli are featured by the 54-member ensemble.

“A blend of British and Russian traditional wind band repertoire, mixed with British and American contemporary wind band literature would best describe this performance,” states Dr. Brian Hopwood, conductor and director of instrumental studies at SBU. The concert will open with British composer Peter Graham’s The Red Machine, commissioned in 2003 for the London-based Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards. Among this band’s duties is the famous changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace where their reputation for precision marching led to the work’s title.

Also included on the performance are two classic band works by Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich: “Galop” from his ballet Moscow, Cheremushki, op. 105 and The Fire of Eternal Glory.  Rounding out the program is Gustav Holst’s three-movement Moorside March, another band classic, along with Frank Ticheli’s furious and energetic Vesuvius. The latter is a programmatic work suggesting the image of a bacchanal in ancient Rome – the representation of a last celebration during the final doomed days of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted and completely engulfed the city.

For more information, please call Brian K. Hopwood, department of music, at 417-328-1647 or email him at: bhopwood@sbuniv.edu.

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