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Lane Music, Dance, and
Theatre NEWS!
Press Release
DATE: February 28, 2008
CONTACT: Ron Bertucci, lead music faculty Ph. 463-5644
Myrna Seifert, publicist Ph. 463-5161
Lane Community College
Music, Dance & Theatre Arts Department
4000 East 30th Ave. Eugene, OR 97405
Calendar summary:
WINTER '08 ENSEMBLE CONCERTS:
All concerts take place in the Lane Performance Hall, Bldg. 6 on the LCC main campus
7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6 Chamber Orchestra and Symphonic Band
3:00 p.m.. Sunday, March 9 Chamber Orchestra and Symphonic Band
7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13 Concert and Chamber Choirs and Spectrum Vocal Jazz Ensemble
7:30 p.m. Friday, March 14 Lane Jazz Band & Spectrum Vocal Jazz Ensemble
donation request $4.00 - $8.00 information: 463-5202
LANE MUSIC PROGRAM OFFERS WINTER ENSEMBLE CONCERTS
The Lane Community College music program ends its Winter term with
ensemble concerts directed by five of the 15 instructors currently
teaching in Lane's music program. Ron Bertucci directs the
Symphonic and Jazz Bands; Hisao Watanabe the Chamber Orchestra; Matt
Svoboda the Chamber Choir; Debi Noel the Concert Choir and Vicki
Brabham directs the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, "Spectrum".
The concerts take place in the Bldg. 6 Performance Hall on the
main campus at LCC. Ample free parking is available in the NE
parking lot just east of the building off the Eldon Schaffer Drive
entrance. Admission is by requested donation, $4.00 -
$8.00. Proceeds fund Individual Lessons scholarships for Lane
Music students. Call the Lane Ticket Office for additional
information: 463-5202.
This ensemble concert series opens with two identical concerts, on
Thursday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 9 at 3:00 p.m.
The Chamber Orchestra will open the program with selections from
Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, followed by Beethoven's Leonora Overture
No. 3. Following the orchestra the Symphonic Band will play Second
Suite for Military Band by Gustav Holst; Chorale and Toccata by
Jack Stamp; Cloudburst by Erik Whitacre and end with four Scottish
dances by Malcolm Arnold.
Thursday, March 13, 7:30 p.m. Spectrum Vocal Jazz Ensemble will start the evening concert with
two Dave Barduhn arrangments-- "Let Tomorrow Be", and "There will Never
Be Another You". That last one features Andrew Alef, and Casey Hedrick,
soloists. "A Child is Born" will feature Bass soloist Beau Belansky,
and "Handful of Keys", from the musical "Ain't Misbehavin'", features
Barbie Wu, Kellee Mendenhall, and Aavery Fincher-Beard.
The Chamber Choir will be performing a program of sacred music,
including David's Lamentation by Joshua Shank; In Paradisum by Edwin
Fissinger and end with Missa Brevis St. Joannis Deo by Franz Joseph
Haydn. Margaret Gowen is the accompanist for the Chamber Choir.
On the same program Concert Choir will sing Yonder Come Day, a
Spiritual from Georgia Sea Islands; The Cotton Pickin' Song; a
traditional folk song arranged by Jill Galina; Heart of the World with
the story told by Bob Rubinstein; Happiness Runs in a Circular Motion;
Go For Baroque by Carl Strommen; Kwaheri, which is a traditional song
from Kenya and Tanzania. The descant singers for the Concert
Choir are Estella Bitney, Melissa Lowder, Alexis Martin, Kellee
Mendenhall. Both choirs will end the program with Song of Peace
"Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius.
Spectrum will do the same numbers with Jazz Band concert the following
evening, Friday, March 14, with the addition of Duke Ellington's "Mood
Indigo", and a Kirk Marcy arrangment of "Green Dolphin Street"
featuring Dan Mahoney, Guitar. The Jazz Band will offer the
following standards: Look For The Silver Lining by Sammy Nestico;
Just Below The Surface by Dan Gailey; Rhoda Map by Thad Jones; Blues
for Red by John Fedchock; and Hope Rising by Jim McNeeley.
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