Concert creates a diverse musical talent Collage

PREVIEW
	Collage Concert Tonight at 8:15 Hill Auditorium Tickets must be picked up from 4-6 p.m. today at Hill Auditorium

With the wide range of music, the concert is meant to provide something for everyone. Because all of the performers are current students at the University, and the conductors are faculty members, the University has taken pride in this collage for 21 years.

"The concert has no particular focus," David Aderente, Production Manager of the Collage Concert, said. "It represents many different periods and is very eclectic."

The concert will include performances by the University Symphony Band, the University Choir and University Chamber Choir, University Jazz Ensemble, Digital Musical Ensemble and solo and group presentations from the musical theatre department and the jazz and contemporary improvisation department.

The concert opens with "La Tregenda," performed by the University Symphony Band and conducted by James R. Tapia. Other pieces, including "Toccata in F Major," "Ring Out Wild Bells," and "I Feel Pretty," from "West Side Story," have been rehearsed, played and evaluated in performances throughout the past semester.

The staff has been working diligently in putting together the Collage Concert since September, Aderente said.

"The University Choir and the University Chamber Choir will join forces in singing Ron Nelson's "Ring Out Wild Bells, led by conductor Sandra Snow," Music first-year student, Lindsay Shipps said. "Being a voice performance major, I am thrilled to have to opportunity to perform this selection in the School of Music's tradition of the Collage Concert."

The program is presented in conjunction with the Annual Mid-West Conference on school, vocal and instrumental music. For 53 years, the conference has drawn in music educators from all across the midwest. It opened last night with performances by the University's Men's Glee Club and Michigan State University's Men's Glee Club. The Collage Concert falls in the middle of the four-day conference, and although it began as a form of entertainment for those attending the conference, it is now open to all University students to provide them with a taste of the range of musical styles within the School of Music.

"The Collage Concert is the brainchild of former professor of conducting Gustav Meier," said Music publicist Jeffrey Chase "It is a conglomerate of a lot of musical variety."

According to Chase the concert has been extremely well received in the past, and they are expecting yet another good turnout is expected this year, Chase said.

The Collage Concert sheds light on the musical excellence of those enrolled in the University's School of Music, through an entertaining and broad-based performance.

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