Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No.16   April 24, 2000

This Year’s Commencement Eve Concert Features Classics from the Stage Ithaca College’s 33rd annual Commencement Eve Concert, "On Stage! Music for the Theater," will be held on Friday, May 12, at 8:30 p.m. in Ben Light Gymnasium. Free and open to the public, the concert will be directed for the 13th consecutive year by Dana Wilson, Charles A. Dana Professor of Music. "This year the concert is devoted to music for the stage," says Wilson. "Music serves to entertain and enlighten in its own right, but this year we’ll explore music intended to work with other ‘staged’ arts." The concert program will feature performances by the Ithaca College Orchestra, Choir, and Marimba Ragtime Band, along with various soloists. These performers will cover diverse genres, including ballet, theater, vaudeville, opera, and musical theater. The selections include an excerpt from Stravinsky’s Petroushka, "The Ride of the Valkyries" from Wagner’s Die Walküre, and "Johnny One Note" from Rodgers and Hart’s Babes in Arms. The evening’s festivities will conclude with all the ensembles and soloists performing the Ithaca College alma mater, "Ithaca Forever," by Philip Lang ’33 and Alicia Carpenter. The program will employ Wilson’s "surround sound" concept, which promises a good seat anywhere in the audience. Ensembles are positioned around the gymnasium; when one group finishes, another begins, creating a continuous performance that originates from various directions. For more information call Alex Dippold in the School of Music at 274-3717.

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