Symphonic Band Hosts Free Spring Concert

RIO GRANDE, Ohio – The annual spring concert for the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College’s Symphonic Band is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 in the Berry Fine & Performing Arts Center.

The concert is free and open to the public. Under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Gary Stewart, the performance will feature Levi Belliter, an adjunct professor of percussion at Rio Grande.

Belliter will perform “Concertino for Marimba and Winds” by Alfred Reed. The work is in three movements that starts in a slow legato style Nocturne then transitions into a lively Scherzetto and ends with a Taccata in a jazz style.

Other music to be performed in the concert include a march entitled “Cincinnatus” by H.A. Vandercook, and original work “Rock Springs Saga” by William Owens, a lively two-step march entitled “A Kansas Two-Step” by Arthur Pryor, a favorite of the John Phillip Sousa Band, and “The Irish Washerwoman from the Irish Suite” by Leroy Anderson.

Disney’s “Frozen” by Stephen Bulla followed by the Broadway medley “Seventy Six Trombones” by Jay Bocook from The Music Man will close the concert.