Wind Ensemble to Perform at Founder's Day Concert

The ninth annual Founder's Day Concert in the Park will be held on Sunday, September 17, in DeWitt Park. The concert, entitled "Music from around the World," will begin at 2:00 p.m. and will be performed by the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble under the baton of Stephen Peterson. Sponsored by the Friends of Ithaca College, the free concert is designed to bring music back to the original Ithaca College downtown campus quad. The rain location will be Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.

This world tour of music will begin in Russia with Rimsky-Korsakov's Procession of Nobles and move west for Vaughan Williams's English Folk Suite. Listeners will delight in the exotic sounds of Chance's Variations on a Korean Folk Song before heading to Argentina, where the Latin dance rhythms of Ginastera's Danza Final from Estancia will fill the air. The musical tour will conclude in the United States with Ives's Variations on America and Sousa's Glory of the Yankee Navy.

The Founder's Day Concert in the Park was first staged in 1992 to mark the centennial of the founding of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. This concert - reminiscent of a time when there were regular conservatory concerts downtown - is being held to celebrate the College's partnership with the local community.

The 45-member Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, founded in 1981, is the premier wind band at Ithaca College, presenting some 15 concerts every school year. The group has worked with such renowned composers and conductors as Samuel Adler, John Corigliano, Karel Husa, Lukas Foss, and Dana Wilson.

Sunday's event is made possible through the generous support of Baker Travel and the Boardman House.

For more information regarding the concert schedule at Ithaca College, visit the School of Music Web page at www.ithaca.edu/music.