DANA CONCERT BAND TO PRESENT FALL
CONCERT, OCT. 31
Performance features guest
flute soloist Shana Ryan
The Dana College Concert Band will present its annual
fall concert on Sunday, Oct. 31, at 3 p.m. in the Lauritzen Theatre
in the Madsen Fine Arts Center. This free program will contain
a variety of musical styles and feature music from the sixteenth
through twentieth centuries. The public is warmly invited to attend.
Featured soloist for the concert is Shana Ryan, flute,
performing Kent Kennan’s famous “Night Soliloquy.”
Kennan, a composition student at the Eastman School of Music won
the Prix de Rome in 1936, and composed “Night Soliloquy”
while studying abroad. The work has been performed by all the major
orchestras in the United States and is considered a staple of the
flute repertoire.
Ryan is a graduate of Wayne State College, where she
majored in music education. She currently serves as band director
at Arlington High School, and actively performs with several area
ensembles including the Blair Area Community Band. Ryan also serves
as woodwind instructor at Dana.
Period compositions on the concert include William
Latham’s “Court Festival,” a collection of movements
written in the dance styles of the Renaissance; the “Andante”
from Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 (Surprise), and
Gioacchino Rossini’s overture to his one act opera “La
Cambiale di Matrimonio.”
The Concert Band’s brass and percussion sections
will be featured on William Schmidt’s “Chorale, March
and Fugato,” adapted from his “Variations on a Negro
Folk Song.” This exciting twentieth century composition is
an outstanding example of modern writing for brass instruments.
Rounding out the concert is “Variations on a
Korean Folk Song” by John Barnes Chance. While serving with
the U. S. Army in Korea, Chance heard the folk song “Arirang”
and in 1965 decided to compose a set of five variations for concert
band based upon the tune. Chance also employed several oriental
percussion sounds such as muffled timpani — to imitate Taiko
drums — temple blocks and various pitched gongs. “Variations
on a Korean Folk Song” has become a regular part of the concert
band repertoire and receives many performances across the nation
each year.
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and in the lives of others. Through a highly supportive faculty
and campus community, Dana students develop interpersonal skills,
leadership abilities, and other important values and knowledge as
they make choices about their future. Dana’s outstanding academic
programs in business, education, music and social work, among others,
ensure that students have the knowledge, skills and experience necessary
to pursue challenging careers or placement in graduate school.
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in Blair, Neb. To learn more, visit www.dana.edu.
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For more information contact:
Sarah Cavanah
Communications Coordinator
Dana College
(402) 426-7216
scavanah@dana.edu
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