WIND ENSEMBLE, CAPE CENTRAL BAND TEAM UP FOR MONDAY CONCERT

The Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Cape Girardeau Central High School Concert Band will perform a joint concert Monday at the university campus.

The performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Academic Auditorium.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble is comprised of 35 students selected through competitive audition. The ensemble has distinguished itself in the past several years with performances for the Missouri Music Educators Association and the College Band Directors National Association.

The Cape Central Concert Band recently started its season after a busy and successful marching season.

The Wind Ensemble's portion of the concert will feature a new overture written by Hungarian composer Kamillo Lendvay, Percy Grainger's setting of the Scottish folk song "Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon;" a new arrangement of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera;" and a new symphony for band written by Dutch composer Johan de Meij.

Meij's symphony last year was selected as the outstanding composition for band internationally, and is based on J.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings."

The Cape Central Concert Band will perform "Masque" by Francis McBeth, selections from the musical "Cats," and Sousa's "Free Lance March." Lynne Bevfoden, a Southeast percussionist, will be featured in a marimba solo.

Ron Nall, Cape Central band director, and Robert Gifford, Southeast professor of music and secondary education, will conduct the groups.

University students, staff and faculty will be admitted free to the concert with a university ID, and general admission is $3 for adults and $1.50 for children and senior citizens. All proceeds benefit the music department's scholarship fund.