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Weekend of Concerts

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  • Oct 16, 2009 at 15:30 to Oct 18, 2009 at 11:00
  • Location: University Theatre on FAU’s Boca Raton campus
  • Latest Activity: Sep 23, 2020
FAU’s Music Department Presents a Weekend of Concerts Florida Atlantic University’s department of music in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters will present a full weekend of concerts on October 16 - 18. All concerts will take place in the University Theatre on FAU’s Boca Raton campus. Admission is free with a suggested donation of $10. On Friday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m., the FAU Jazz Band, under the direction of Neal Bonsanti, will present an evening of jazz favorites. The band, which consists of approximately 25 students ranging from freshman to graduate students, will perform big band jazz compositions and arrangements by John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Tom Kubis, Sammy Nestico, Mark Taylor and Gordon Goodwin. On Saturday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m., Patricia Fleitas will direct the FAU Chamber Singers in a concert featuring Heather Coltman and Krisztina Kover on piano. The concert will include Brahms’s “Liebeslieber Waltzer” and some Eastern European choral music, including music by Běla Bartók and Henryk Górecki . On Sunday, October 18 at 3 p.m., the FAU Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Kyle Prescott, will present “Autumn Bells.” The concert opens with a fanfare by film score composer John Williams called "Sound the Bells." This is followed by a newer work by Eric Whitacre titled "October." Norman Dello Joio's three movement suite "Satiric Dances" will then be conducted by graduate conducting student Daniel Harvey. The FAU Brass Choir, Saxophone Choir and Concert Percussion Ensemble will perform a variety of chamber music selections, and finally, the full wind ensemble will again take the stage for Michael Daugherty's "Bells for Stokowski," a tribute to one of the most influential and controversial conductors of the 20th century, Leopold Stokowski. For further information about concerts at FAU, visit www.fau.edu/music or call 561-297-3820.
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