SEMO WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT THURSDAY

The Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will present a concert Thursday billed as "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue."

The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Academic Auditorium. General admission is $5. Tickets for senior citizens and students are $3. University faculty, staff and students will be admitted free with a valid I.D.

The concert will feature J.S. Bach's "Fantasia in G Major."

Also on the program is "A Light Unto the Darkness," composed in 1997 by American composer David Gillingham in homage to the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City disaster.

The mainstay of the concert will be a new suite by British composer Martin Ellerby. His "Paris Sketches" features four "scenes" representing personal impressions of the city and of the famous musicians who have lived and worked there.

The concert also will feature America's other "March King," Karl L. King, who distinguished himself as the leader of the Barnum and Bailey's Circus Band.

King also conducted the Fort Dodge, Iowa, Municipal Band and composed nearly 300 works.

One of these compositions, a march, titled "The Goldman Band," was written in 1930 as a tribute to another of the country's band masters, Edwin Franko Goldman.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble will close the concert with "The Goldman Band March."