Marches from around the World to Highlight Founder’s Day Concert

The 11th annual Founder’s Day Concert in the Park will be held on Sunday, September 15, at 2:00 p.m. in DeWitt Park. The program, entitled "Everybody Loves a March," will feature the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, conducted by Stephen Peterson, and a guest appearance by the Ithaca College Trombone Troupe, conducted by Erik Kibelsbeck. The rain location will be Ford Hall.

Sponsored by the Friends of Ithaca College, this free concert brings music back to the original Ithaca College downtown "campus quad" and celebrates the College’s partnership with the community. The Founder’s Day Concert in the Park has been held annually since 1992, when it was produced to mark the centennial of the founding of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. The concert is made possible through the generous support of Baker Travel and the Boardman House.

"When most people think of a march, they think of John Philip Sousa," says Peterson. "We’ll certainly have the ‘March King’ well represented on the concert, but I plan to present a wide variety of marches from all over the world. I’m sure that there will be something for everyone."

In addition to Sousa’s Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and Washington Post, the program will feature works by such American composers as E. E. Bagley and Karl King, as well as a sampling of marches from Belgium, Australia, France, Spain, Japan, and Germany. Among the 16 works to be performed will be Amparito Roca by Jaime Texidor, Marche Militaire Française by Camille Saint-Saëns, Yagi-Bushi by Naohiro Iwai, and Valdres by Johannes Hanssen.

More information on concerts at Ithaca College is available at www.ithaca.edu/music.