March 23, 2009 (Vol. 9, No. 5)

Community Band to Give Free Concert March 29

The Lehman College Community Band will give its first performance of the new year with "March Into Spring," a free concert featuring both classic and modern works for wind band. This event, which is open to the campus community and the public, will take place on Sunday, March 29, at 2 p.m. in the Lovinger Theatre.

Led by Professor Alan Hollander, the band will perform perennial favorites First Suite for Military Band by Gustav Holst and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, in addition to modern works by Curnow, Heed, and Kallman.

Featured will be special guest percussionists Morris Lang of the New York Philharmonic and Latin legends Bobby Sanabria, Memo Acevedo, Aldo Mazza, and Victor Rendon, performing the latter's arrangement of Mambo No 5. Also performing will be baritone horn soloist Walter Barrett, with his own arrangement of music from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Rounding out the program will be a medley of selections from the Broadway musical Les Miserables and the jovial Jamaican Rumba.

The Lehman College Community Band includes Lehman students, faculty, and staff, as well as community members.

For more information, contact the Lehman Music Department at 718-960-8247 or music.department@lehman.cuny.edu.

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