The Linfield College Concert Band will present the program, “Curtain Up: American Music,” Tuesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield.
The program will open with “Song of the High Cascades” by Alfred Reed and “Third Suite” by Robert E. Jager. Student conductor C.J. Turley, a sophomore music major, will lead the band in the lyrical “Red River Valley,” a traditional American melody arranged by North Dakota composer James Ployhar. The band will recognize graduating senior members and its wish for Linfield in the poignant number “Make Our Garden Grow” from Leonard Bernstein’s musical/operetta, “Candide.” John Wasson’s “Curtain Call” will close the concert.
The Linfield Concert Band is conducted by Joan Haaland Paddock, professor of music. The band is also assisted by adjunct professors of music, Abigail Sperling and Greyson Boydstun.
The Linfield Concert Band is comprised of approximately 40 members who play woodwinds, brass and percussion. Student musicians include music majors and minors and non-majors from across all disciplines. Several community members also participate.
Paddock, at Linfield since 1994, is the first woman to receive a doctorate in trumpet performance from Indiana University. She received the Emmy Award from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Performer’s Certificate from Indiana University. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Norway and studied at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. She is a trumpeter with Halcyon Trio Oregon, a Bach Trumpet Clinician for the Selmer Music Corporation, a member of the trumpet section with Oregon’s Britt Festival Orchestra and an “on call” trumpeter with the Oregon Symphony and Portland Opera.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
