{"83301":{"#nid":"83301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Symphonic Band Performs \u0027Best literature Ever Written for Wind Band\u0027 in November","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe fall concert by the Georgia Tech Symphonic Band will be held 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, 349 Ferst Drive NW. General admission is $5 and free for students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program includes \u0022Festival Overture on the \u0027The Star Spangled Banner\u0027\u0022 by Dudley Buck; \u0022Walking Tune\u0022 by Percy Grainger; \u0022Pavanne from Symphonette No. 2\u0022 by Morton Gould; \u0022Suite Francaise\u0022 by Darius Milhaud; \u0022First Suite in Eb\u0022 by Gustav Holst; and \u0022Rolling Thunder\u0022 by Henry Fillmore.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Symphonic Band consists of 55 musicians this fall, including graduate and undergraduate students from programs throughout the Institute.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many of these talented students have been involved in band since the sixth grade and have numerous accolades and awards to their credit,\u0022 said Assistant Professor Andrea Strauss, director of bands at Georgia Tech and conductor of the Symphonic Band.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Most of these accomplished musicians attended All-State and District Honor Bands in high school and are from nationally acclaimed high-school band programs, including Lassiter High School in Marietta, Ga., and Westlake High School in Austin, Texas,\u0022 Strauss said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fall selections by the Symphonic Band include classic British, French and American wind band literature. For example, \u0022Suite Francaise\u0022 -- composed in 1945 by Darius Milhaud -- represents five French provences, the very ones in which American and Allied forces fought together with the French underground for the liberation of France during World War II. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStrauss said Milhaud used folksongs from these provences so that Americans could hear the popular melodies of those parts of France where their grandfathers, fathers, uncles and brothers fought, on behalf of the peaceful people from these regions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The repertoire that we will be performing represents some of the best literature ever written for wind band,\u0022 she said. \u0022The compositional expertise of these renowned composers coupled with a quality musical performance will make for a very enjoyable evening.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The fall concert by the Georgia Tech Symphonic Band will be held 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, 349 Ferst Drive NW. General admission is $5 and free for students.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-10-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:02","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"83311":{"id":"83311","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Symphonic Band","body":null,"created":"1449178095","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:15","changed":"1475894700","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:00"}},"media_ids":["83311"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ferst Center for the Arts"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/music\/","title":"Georgia Tech Music Department"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}