September 14, 1998 Volume 21, No. 2

Founder's Day Concert September 20

The seventh annual Founder's Day Concert in the Park will be held on Sunday, September 20, at Ithaca's DeWitt Park. Sponsored by the Friends of Ithaca College, the 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 Lauri Keegan. Directed by Ithaca College School of Music faculty member Steve Brown '64, the program will include works by Cole Porter, Bennie Moten, Bart Howard, and others.

Brown, a professor of jazz studies and guitar, has performed with Chuck Israels, Billy Hart, Gerry Niewood, Ben Riley, Claudio Roditi, Bill Goodwin, Marian McPartland, Jimmy Smith, and others throughout his career. He has given concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Spain, Portugal, France, and Turkey, from the Village Vanguard to Lincoln Center to the Teatro Falla. His recording credits include work with Chuck Mangione, the National Jazz Ensemble, Danny D'Imperio, and Steve Gilmore. His recordings Good Lines and Child's Play are on the Cafe Records label.

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 rain location for the concert will be in the College's Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall.