DANA COLLEGE CONCERT BAND TO GIVE SPECIAL JOSLYN MUSEUM CONCERT, APRIL 13

Concert features the performance of a
world premiere edition by Professor William Hall

The Dana Concert Band, under the direction of Assistant Professor William Hall, will give a special concert April 13 in the Witherspoon Concert Hall at the Joslyn Art Museum (2200 Dodge, Omaha, Neb.). Admission is free, and a reception will follow the concert.

The performance will feature the world premiere of Hall’s critical/performing edition of Franz Krommer’s “Parthia for Band.” The piece, originally written in 1825 and never before published, was completed as part of Hall’s doctoral dissertation. It is a three-movement concert work written by one of the most important composers of the time. Krommer was the last court chamber music composer for the Austrian Empire and held great influence over his peers.

Also featured during the concert will be guest soloist Michelle Hall on “Concerto for Clarinet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73,” by Carl Maria von Weber. Other selections include “Noisy Wheels of Joy” by Eric Whitacre, “The Black Horse Troop” by John Philip Sousa, “Satiric Dances for a Comedy by Aristophanes,” by Norman Dello Joio, “The Padstow Lifeboat,” by Malcolm Arnold and “Of Sailors and Whales, Five Scenes from Melville,” by W. Francis McBeth.

The concert will be the highlight of the Dana College Concert Band’s season. Their final concert for this season will be the Spring Concert, May 8, in the Laurtizen Theater, Madsen Fine Arts Center, on Dana’s campus.

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 experienced 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 Dana College and Dana College Concert Band can be found at www.dana.edu.

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For more information contact:

Sarah Cavanah
Communications Coordinator
Dana College
(402) 426-7216
scavanah@fs1.dana.edu