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Crane Wind Ensemble Performance Features Percussionists
02.06.12
The Crane Wind Ensemble will offer its first spring semester concert at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall.
The Crane Wind Ensemble is the select wind band at The Crane School of Music and is conducted by Dr. Brian K. Doyle. Membership is determined by audition at the beginning of each semester.
The program will feature “Toccata Marziale” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Songs Without Words” by Dan Welcher, “Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind Ensemble” by David Gillingham and “Symphony No. 4” by David Maslanka. The percussion concertino will feature four percussionists from the studio of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor James Petercsak.
The concert is free, and the public is invited to attend.
For more information about this concert, contact Brian Doyle at doylebk@potsdam.edu or (315) 267-2428.
To find out more about the many performances offered throughout the semester at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music, visit www.potsdam.edu/newsandevents.
Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York’s only All-Steinway institution, and is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2011-12.