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EIU Wind Symphony, Concert Band to Present 'Celebration Concert'

The Eastern Illinois University Wind Symphony and Concert Band will offer something for all ages in its "Celebration Concert" on Friday, April 15.

The free concert is to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Dvorak Concert Hall in EIU's Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The Wind Symphony and Concert Band are conducted by Barry L. Houser. Three graduate student conductors -- Patrick Rheingruber, Sarah Todd and Chris Mroczek -- will each conduct a selection, as well.

The program is comprised of several works: "Persistence" by Richard Saucedo; "A Basque Lullaby" by Dan Forrest; "Undertow" by John Mackey; "Overture to Candide" and "Slava" by Leonard Bernstein; "DreamCircus" by Rob Deemer; "Cartoon" by Paul Hart; "Wild Nights!" by Frank Ticheli; and "The Circus Bee March" by Henry Fillmore.

The Doudna Fine Arts Center is a division of the EIU College of Arts and Humanities. For more information, call 217-581-3110 or visit www.eiu.edu/doudna.