UCA’s Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble Winter Concert, which will take place tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, will feature Hendrix College piano professor John Krebs as soloist for Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”
The concert is free to the public, although donations will be accepted in the lobby for the UCA Wind Ensemble?s trip to Austria in May, where it will represent Arkansas at the American Celebration of Music. The celebration is a series of concerts throughout 2008 by American orchestras, choirs, wind ensembles or dance troupes. Pending fundraising success, the UCA group will perform two concerts in Salzburg and two in Vienna from May 5-12. The trip will cost UCA about $140,000 for 50 students, two directors and 10 guests.
Tomorrow night’s concert will feature works by European, English and American composers, including Dimitri Shostakovich, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Frank Ticheli, Sergei Prokofiev and Robert Russell Bennett.