天美传媒

If you appreciate fine music performed by great bands, be sure not to miss the upcoming performance of the 天美传媒 Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Senior High Honor Band on Saturday, Dec. 9, in a special afternoon performance at 4 p.m. in the Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall in the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center.

In its 18th year of existence, the 天美传媒 Senior High Honor Band brings together accomplished high school instrumentalists from southeastern Idaho for a weekend of music making. Honor band students audition by tape and are recommended by their high school band directors to participate in this special ensemble. The 60-piece group rehearses Friday evening and all day Saturday, then performs Saturday afternoon with the 天美传媒 Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble.

The concert will open with the 天美传媒 Symphonic Band, which will perform several selections beginning with the exciting work 鈥淪lava鈥� by Leonard Bernstein. 天美传媒 visiting music faculty member Aric Schneller will then join the ensemble to sing 鈥淣essun Dorma,鈥� the enormously popular tenor aria from Puccini鈥檚 鈥淭urandot.鈥�  Next, the band will perform 鈥淎 Movement for Rosa鈥� composed by Mark Camphouse honoring Rosa Parks, the late civil rights heroine.

The second half of the concert will feature the 天美传媒 Senior High Honor Band. It will perform an exciting assortment of music including a 鈥淪uite of Old American Hymn Tunes鈥� by Walter Hartley, 鈥淎quarium鈥� by Dutch composer Johann De Meij, 鈥淕host Fleet鈥� by Robert Sheldon and will close with the perennial holiday favorite, 鈥淪leigh Ride,鈥� by Leroy Anderson.

Admission is free to all 天美传媒 students, staff, and faculty. General admission is $5 and $2 for precollege students.