{"id":25581,"date":"2024-04-26T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/?p=25581"},"modified":"2024-04-26T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:49:35","slug":"tusculum-university-community-band-to-perform-holst-and-friends-at-niswonger-performing-arts-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www3.tusculum.edu\/news\/news\/2024\/tusculum-university-community-band-to-perform-holst-and-friends-at-niswonger-performing-arts-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusculum University Community Band to perform “Holst and Friends” at Niswonger Performing Arts Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREENEVILLE<\/strong> \u2013 The Tusculum University<\/a> Community Band<\/a> will transport the audience to the stars in a celestially themed concert as the musicians remember a prominent and widely respected composer on his 150th birthday and play works of other great artists.<\/h3>\n
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The Tusculum University Community Band practices before its performance in February.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Tusculum University Community Band practices before its performance in February.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cHolst and Friends\u201d is the name for the band\u2019s annual spring concert Thursday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at Niswonger Performing Arts Center. Lasting about 90 minutes with an intermission, the concert will feature three works by Gustav Holst, an English composer and music teacher born in 1874 and known best for his orchestral suite \u201cThe Planets.\u201d The band will also play works by seven other composers.<\/p>\n

The concert is free, but donations are welcome. Donations will be directed to the purchase of additional uniforms for the Tusculum University student marching band.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe welcome the opportunity to share another evening with the community performing enjoyable music,\u201d said Dr. David Gonzalez, Tusculum\u2019s director of bands and the conductor for the community band. \u201cWe are pleased to offer a different perspective from our most recent concerts with our focus on Holst and these other artists. The band is enthusiastic about presenting this concert, and we look forward to seeing a nice crowd at NPAC.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band scheduled the concert at NPAC because of repairs that were needed to the stage in the Marilyn duBrisk Theatre at Tusculum.<\/p>\n

Chris Chambers, an adjunct music faculty member at Tusculum and a member of the community band, said the concert will generate emotions for audience members that they would not normally feel at a concert and take them to places they have never been. He said this concert will be one of the band\u2019s most serious.<\/p>\n

Here is the lineup of songs:<\/p>\n

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Chris Chambers, right, said the music of Gustav Holst is phenomenal. The Tusculum University Community Band will play some of it Thursday, May 2.<\/p><\/div>\n