MC’s ‘Pops on the Prairie’ features
Monmouth Winds, voice studentsRelease Date:
April 11, 2008
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College’s elite instrumental
ensemble, the Monmouth Winds, will share the stage with students from the music
department’s voice studio for an evening of Broadway musicals, entitled "Pops on
the Prairie," on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kasch Performance Hall of the Dahl
Chapel and Auditorium.
Free and open to the public, the concert will feature Broadway
classics from more than 20 popular musicals, including "The King and I,"
"The Sound of Music," "Fiddler on the Roof" and "A Chorus Line."
The Monmouth Winds, under the direction of Stephen Richter, director
of instrumental activities, is a 40-member ensemble for what Richter
defines as the serious musician. It is open only by audition or
recommendation of the applied instructors. Aside from its schedule of
fall and spring concerts, the group performs at Family Weekend,
Christmas at Monmouth and the annual commencement concert.
Richter says the group will embark on a regional, five-day tour in
March next year that will include, in addition to a number of high
schools, performances at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, the
Charles Allis Art Museum in Milwaukee and the Harold Washington Public
Library in Chicago. Along with the Monmouth Chorale, the Monmouth Winds
plan to tour Europe in the summer of 2010.
Vocalists for the pops concert are from the voice studio of Perry
White, associate professor of music.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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