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All concerts will be presented virtually on the School of Music’s website 25th annual African American Music Festival to be held Feb. 4-7 January 31, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The 25th annual African American Music Festival at Penn State will take place Feb. 4–7 with a variety of concerts, lectures and presentations by School of Music ensembles and soloists, and several guest artists. All concerts will be presented virtually on the School of Music’s website. Schedule Thursday, Feb. 4,...

The Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Orchestra will present a concert on Feb. 8-9 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Douglas Bakenhus is music director of the Natchitoches-Northwestern Symphony Orchestra. Juan Pablo Paternina Paez is the graduate assistant conductor. The Feb. 8 concert is for NSU students. Admission is free with a current student I.D. Tickets to the Feb. 9 concert are for the general public and are $15. Seating is limited to 72. Masks are required and social distancing sho...

Dec. 12, 1956 - Nov. 17, 2020 Holly F. Baumgartner passed away on Nov. 17, 2020 in The Villages, Florida. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on Dec. 21, 1956, she grew up in Moraga, California and graduated from Miramonte High School in 1975, where she was a member of the marching band. She later earned a masters degree in Speech Pathology & Audiology from California State University, Chico. Holly married James Baumgartner in 1983. They moved to Breckenridge, Colorado in 1994 and the...

Print Canyon Crest Academy’s Amy Villanova will be honored with the 2020 California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Byron Hoyt/Don Schmeer Band Educator Award, the top award honoring excellence in instrumental education and performance in the state of California. Amy Villanova (Courtesy) Eligible educators for the honor includes all music educators in public and private schools, colleges and universities in the state of California. Villanova, the coordinator for Instrumental Music, Wind En...

FALL RIVER – Maestro Manuel M. Canito, considered by many as the king of the Portuguese marching band world, was laid to rest on Monday.  As his coffin and family and friends exited Fall River’s Santo Christo Church, the Our Lady of Light Band, which he co-founded and conducted for nearly five decades, said its final farewell by playing a funeral march he composed. Those who knew him not just as a musician but as a community leader offered accolades and reminiscences, while saying the Port...

413-577-2154 The UMass Wind Ensemble presents "Standing Together," a series of streamed performances on the Music & Dance Department’s YouTube Channel. The title references the socially-distant manner in which the students stood outside during the recordings, and the unified approach employed by the entire Music and Dance Department during the pandemic. A new piece, recorded live, will be streamed at 7:30 p.m. every Saturday night from December 19 to January 30.    Danzon No. 2 (1994) for S...

December 21, 2020 UMass Wind Ensemble MSR Classics has just released the latest CD by the UMass wind ensemble, led by director of wind studies Matthew Westgate. “Quicksilver” features the world premiere recordings of three works, all of which were commissioned by the wind studies program as part of a larger consortium. These include Stacy Garrop’s “Quicksilver: Concerto for Alto Saxophone with Wind Ensemble,” which includes UMass saxophone professor Jonathan Hulting-Cohen as soloist; ...

Updated: 3:50 PM CST December 21, 2020 ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A group of musicians within the Quad Cities area performed a pandemic-friendly rendition of "Sleigh Ride" using talent and technology.  The QCA Virtual Wind Ensemble, which was born out of the coronavirus pandemic, is made up of educators and professional musicians from the area.   Junior high band director Derek Ross put together a virtual performance of "Sleigh Ride." The initial plan was to get 8 or 10 musicians t...

KINGSPORT — The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t stopping Dobyns-Bennett High School’s annual Christmas music and related performances. However, it did delay public access to them for a week and prompt them to be all virtual. BAND PERFORMANCES: The band portion of “A Christmas Spectacular!” was recorded in the Buck Van Huss Dome the evening of Dec. 14. On Monday, the recordings will be released on the D-B band’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=dobyns-bennett%2...

Holiday concert to air on Medford Television MCM Community Content The Northeast Massachusetts Youth Orchestras will present a holiday concert on Medford Community Media on Comcast channel 3, Verizon channel 47.  The concert will air at various times throughout December and runs 30 minutes. The performance continues NMYO’s tradition of presenting an annual winter concert to the communities it serves.   Consisting of excerpts from the 2019 “Afternoon of Winter Concerts,” the streamed pe...