The EMU Wind Ensemble will present its spring concert 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 7 in Lehman Auditorium.
The 25-member group, directed by James Warner, will play a varied repertoire of selections for wind instruments.
The program will include: “Variants On a Shaped Note Tune” by Johnnie Vinson, “Canzona,” a brisk short work premiered by the Eastman Wind Ensemble in New York in 1951; “Variations” on “A Mighty Fortress is Our God,” by Tim Waters; “Nettleton,” an early American hymn tune arranged by Johnny Vinson, “Pennywhistle Jig” by Henry Mancini with Michelle Leaman featured on piccolo; and others.
Warner, who is also director of the EMU Jazz ensemble, taught in public schools for 34 years in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia, most of this time as director of bands at Harrisonburg High School. He retired from HHS in July, 2005.
Admission to the concert is free; donations are welcomed for the EMU music student scholarship fund.