DANA COLLEGE BAND PRESENTS FALL CONCERT

Program features trumpet-centered piece written for Doc Severinsen

The Dana College Concert Band, conducted by Professor William Hall, will present its fall concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20, in the Lauritzen Theater of the Madsen Fine Arts Center on the Dana College campus.

The free concert will feature faculty trumpet artist Michael Anderson performing Claude T. Smith’s “Rondo for Trumpet.” This flashy composition was written for Doc Severinsen of “Tonight Show” fame. Anderson, assistant professor of music at Dana, is well-known in the Omaha and Lincoln areas for his many performances with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, the Omaha Brass Ensemble and the Paladium Brass Quintet.

The Dana Concert Band will present Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s popular “Procession of the Nobles” from his opera “Mlada.” Another featured work in the concert is American composer Vincent Persichetti’s memorable “Psalm for Band.” Other selections include British composer Malcolm Arnold’s “Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo,” Austrian composer Josef Haydn’s “March for the Prince of Wales,” and the perennial march favorite “Them Basses” by the American composer Hershell Getty Huffine.

Other concert performances for the 2002-2003 academic year are scheduled for Dec. 7 and 8 at Dana College’s annual Sights and Sounds of Christmas festival, a winter concert on Sunday, March 9, a special concert at the Joslyn Art Museum on Sunday, April 13 and the band’s spring concert on Thursday, May 8. The public is cordially invited to attend all theses events.

Dana College is a private, liberal arts institution that currently enrolls approximately 600 students. The campus is located on 150 acres overlooking the Missouri River Valley in Blair, Neb. Dana grants bachelor’s degrees in more than 20 liberal arts, business, education and pre-professional programs, with an emphasis on personalized teaching from experience and dedicated faculty. Dana is affiliated with the Nebraska Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and its athletic teams compete in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.

More information on the Dana College can be found on its web site, www.dana.edu/band.

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For more information contact:
Sarah Cavanah
Dana College Communcations Coordinator
(402) 426-7216
scavanah@fs1.dana.edu

William Hall
Dana College Concert Band Conductor
(402) 426-7902
whall@acad2.dana.edu