BC Symphonic Band Gives Final Concert of the Academic Year



	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 04/09/2008

	BC Symphonic Band Gives Final Concert Of Academic Year

	BRIDGEWATER, Va. — The Bridgewater College Symphonic Band will present its final concert of the 2007-2008 academic year at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in the Carter Center for Worship and Music. The concert, under the leadership of Dr. Timothy Weir, visiting assistant professor of music and director of instrumental music at Bridgewater College, will demonstrate the Symphonic Band's versatility and musicianship as the program draws on music from a wide variety of sources. The program opens with a rousing and very contemporary fanfare, "Nitro" by Frank Ticheli. In contrast, for fans of the Monty Python series, the ensemble will also play John Philip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March." The band also will perform Ticheli's "Cajun Folk Songs II" and "Variations on a Korean Folk Song" by John Barnes Chance. The program will end with a medley of music from the motion picture "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" by Hans Zimmer and arranged by Jay Bocook. The concert also will feature a Bridgewater College Woodwind Quintet playing "Gypsy Dance" by Franz Danzi. The quintet consists of Karen R. Whetzel, a senior music major from Crimora, Va., on clarinet; sophomore music majors Spencer K. Moore from Fishersville, Va., on oboe and Jessica Flory Steury from Kettering, Ohio, on flute; and Cameron Flynn, a business administration major with a minor in political science, on horn and Rory Flynn, an international studies major with a minor in Spanish, on bassoon, both from Hampstead, Md. The program also features Kevin Stees, professor of tuba and euphonium and conductor of the James Madison University Brass Band on the tuba for two pieces, "All Those Endearing Young Charms" arranged by Simone Mantia and "Concertino for Tuba and Band" by Jim Curnow. Stees received a master of music degree from Arizona State University and is co-founder/director of the Skyline Brass Music Festival held each summer on the JMU campus. He is married to Rhonda Stees, adjunct instructor of music at Bridgewater. The concert is open to the public at no charge.
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