SOUTHEAST WIND ENSEMBLE AND CENTRAL CONCERT BAND PERFORM

The Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Cape Central High School Concert Band will team up Nov. 25 when they perform a joint concert on the University campus.

The performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Academic Auditorium.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble is a band comprised of 35 students selected through competitive audition.

The ensemble has distinguished itself in the past several years with performances for the Missouri Music Educators Association and the College Band Directors National Association.

The Cape Central Concert Band has just begun its season after a busy and successful marching season.

The Wind Ensemble's portion of the concert will feature a new overture written by Hungarian composer Kamillo Lendvay, Percy Grainger's setting of the Scottish folk song "YeBanks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon," a new arrangement of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," and a new symphony for band written by Dutch composer Johande Meij. The symphony was chosen in 1990 as the outstanding composition for band internationally and is based on J.J.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings.

The Cape Central Concert Band will perform Masque by Francis McBeth, selections from the musical "Cats," and Sousa's "Free Lance March."

Also featured will be marimba soloist Lynne Bevfoden, a Southeast senior percussionist.

Conducting the groups will be Ron Nall, Cape Central High School band director, and Robert Gifford, Southeast professor of music and secondary education.

Admission is free for University students, staff and faculty with a University I.D. General admission is $3 for adults and $1.50 for non-University students 12 and older and senior citizens. All proceeds benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Department of Music which provides student assistance.