Founder's Day Concert to Feature Big Band Sound The Founder's Day Concert in the Park has been delighting audiences for six years. Be sure to bring your lawn chair! Photo by Bob Ellis   The sixth annual Founder's Day Concert in the Park will be held on Sunday, September 21, at Ithaca's DeWitt Park. Sponsored by the Friends of Ithaca College, the free 2:00 p.m. concert will once again bring music to the site of the original Ithaca College campus quad. The big band retrospective will feature the Ithaca College Jazz Workshop, the Tuesday-Thursday Jazz Lab, and vocalist Tony DeSare '98. Directed by Ithaca College School of Music faculty member Steve Brown '64, the program will include works by Ray Brown, Woody Herman, Arthur Johnston, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and others. The rain location for the concert will be in the College's Ford Hall Auditorium. The Founder's Day Concert in the Park was first staged in 1992 to mark the centennial of the College's founding as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, hearkening back to the time when downtown concerts were staged on a regular basis. The concert is made possible through the generous support of Ithaca College alumni and alumni-owned businesses, including Baker Travel and the Boardman House.

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