HONOR WIND ENSEMBLE WILL PERFORM JAN. 8

The Southeast Missouri Honors Wind Ensemble will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8 in Academic Auditorium.

The program will include works by American composers Claude T. Smith, Alfred Reed and Clifton Williams. Also included will be a setting by Percy Grainger of the Irish folk song "O' Danny Boy" and a transcription of Camille Saint-Sans' spirited "Pas Redoubl."

The band is comprised of 50 high school students chosen by audition from among several hundred young people representing 40 Missouri school districts. The ensemble is conducted by Robert Gifford, a music professor and coordinator of applied music at Southeast Missouri State University, and Barry Bernhardt, director of activity bands at the university.