The Linfield College Concert Band will feature music to spur the imagination in their annual fall concert.
The Concert Band will present “Music for the Imagination: Programmatic Music for Band in the Twentieth Century” on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield College.
Under the direction of Keith Weathers, the band will perform pieces from a variety of styles and subjects including “Marching Song” by Gustav Holst, “Looking Upward Suite” by John Philip Sousa, “Symphony no. 1, ‘The Lord of the Rings’” by Johan de Meij, “Variations on a Shaker Melody” by Aaron Copland and “Commando March” by Samuel Barber.
The Linfield Concert Band is comprised of nearly 40 members who play woodwinds, brass and percussion. Performers include music majors and minors and non-majors from several states, as well as community members.
Weathers is conducting the Linfield Concert Band as Joan Haaland Paddock, professor of music, is on sabbatical in 2018. Weathers, the son of two Linfield alumni, has taught music at Biola College, was a staff arranger for TV’s “Hour of Power,” and served in the 72nd U.S. Army Band during the Vietnam War. He was part of his family retail music business in Salem from 1974, becoming president and general manager, before closing the business in 2014. He has been a member of the Salem Concert Band, first as a trumpeter and then as a conductor. One of his main projects with Salem Concert Band has been the annual concert series “In the Steps of Sousa.”
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
