  {"id":1491,"date":"2009-02-06T09:39:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:47:56","slug":"20090224-bhs-combined-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/06\/20090224-bhs-combined-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band present combined concert at Bemidji High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn. <\/strong>&mdash; 91心頭利&rsquo;s Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, under the direction of Dr. Darrin Oehlerking, will present a concert of contemporary literature and classic band repertoire at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 22, in the Bemidji High School Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the concert is $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and free to all students.<\/p>\n<p>The Wind Ensemble, Bemidji State&rsquo;s premiere performing band, will present a program titled &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s Dance!&rdquo; featuring a variety of dance-related pieces from North America and around the world. Works include &ldquo;Armenian Dances,&rdquo; a collection of folk dances by Alfred Reed, and &ldquo;Country Gardens,&rdquo; composed by Percy Grainger to preserve the folk music of the United Kingdom. Also included will be Igor Stravinsky&rsquo;s &ldquo;Circus Polka,&rdquo; music for a young elephant; a playful, bright and bouncy piece commissioned as a ballet for pachyderms in the Barnum and Bailey Circus.<\/p>\n<p>The Symphonic Band program will include &ldquo;Pageant&rdquo; by American born Vincent Persichetti; &ldquo;Lyric Essay,&rdquo; a slow, reflective piece written in neo-romantic style by Donald Coakley; and &ldquo;Three Ayres from Gloucester&rdquo; composed by Hugh Stuart around a 10th century poetic couplet. Beth Holzhueter, a senior in music education from Bemidji, will lead the Symphonic Band as a guest conductor in &ldquo;I Vow to Thee, My Country&rdquo; by Gustav Holst, a favorite song of Diana, princess of Wales, that was sung at her wedding and funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 2002, the Wind Ensemble has appeared with internationally renowned conductors and soloists.  In 2004, the ensemble performed at the Minnesota Music Educator&rsquo;s Association, marking the first time in 30 years that a BSU ensemble was selected for such an honor.<\/p>\n<p>The Bemidji State Symphonic Band is a non-auditioned ensemble that performs a variety of music in a concert band setting and is open to non-music majors, music majors performing on secondary instruments and members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call the Department of Music at (218) 755-2915.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR YOUR CALENDAR<br>\n Feb. 22 <\/strong>&ndash; 3 p.m. &ndash; 91心頭利 Wind Ensemble, along with the BSU Symphonic Band, perform in concert. Location: Bemidji High School Auditorium. Admission: $5 adults, $3 senior citizens and free to all students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. &mdash; 91心頭利&rsquo;s Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, under the direction of Dr. Darrin Oehlerking, will present a concert of contemporary literature and classic band repertoire at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 22, in the Bemidji High School Auditorium. Admission to the concert is $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44277,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/44277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}