The OWU Symphonic Wind Ensemble offers a free performance of beloved band works by Francis McBeth, Johannes Hanssen, Jack End, and Jaromír Weinberger on Tuesday, October 11 @ 8 p.m. in Gray Chapel.
The concert features McBeth’s “Of Sailors and Whales” and includes concert remarks by Karen Poremski, OWU Professor Emeritus of English, with “A Letter to Herman Melville” on the significance of the great American novel, Moby Dick, the book that inspired the central work of our concert.
“Valdres” (Johannes Hanssen)
“Of Sailors and Whales” (Francis McBeth)
“A Letter to Herman Melville” (Karen Poremski)
“Blues For a Killed Kat” (Jack End)
“Polka and Fugue, from Schwanda The Bagpiper” (Jaromír Weinberger)
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Ohio Wesleyan University Performing Arts Department – Department of Music
Contact: Lisa Hill at lahill@owu.edu