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Superior Wind Symphony Blends Wind and Percussion ALEX SAARI Lode Writer On Friday, Nov. 2, the Superior Wind Symphony (SWS) will play at the Rosza Center. The Superior Wind Symphony blends wind and percussion performers and has a current roster of about forty-five members. Director of Bands at Michigan Tech, Dr. Mike Christianson will conduct the ensemble.
Christianson was able to give a little background history of ensemble groups and the SWS. The typical wind ensemble blends military band and chamber wind sound. Until 1950 or so, military bands were the prominent musical ‘force’ on college campus in the U.S. Post1950, wind ensembles started to gain rising fame and featured the “chamber aspect” of ensemble music. The SWS roster includes performers who don’t
necessarily specialize in music fields. Past and present members include engineers, computer technicians, architects and teachers. In addition, performers are versed in both historical and national chamber wind styles. The upcoming concert covers the 1600’s until 2008 and features music from prominent wind and percussion artists of that four-century span. Selections from artists such as Prokofiev, Gabrieli and
Grainger will be performed. In addition, artists such as Holst and Erb, Steven Grimo and Hollenbeck made other featured works of art famous. In the past, other Michigan Tech members and local musicians have been featured alongside the ensemble and this performance is no different. Assistant Professor Dr. Jared Anderson will be featured during this concert. Anderson was chosen specifically because of his
knowledge of Tibetan-style throat overtone singing. Assistant Professor of Sound Dr. Denny McKaig also has a role in the upcoming event. McKaig will be re-purposing old audio materials for use on a new avant-garde piece. The piece will be one of the first created for wind bands. “Superior Wind Symphony: What We Imagine” begins at 7:30 p.m. with each ticket set at $12.75. Michigan Tech students get in free with the Experience Tech benefit.
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large. The downsides of this performance were few and Lode Writer far between, but they were “The Musical Comedy there. First, perhaps this is Murders of 1940” was a fault of this writer, but the performed at 7:30 p.m. each plot was a little fuzzy and night last weekend starting hard to follow at times near on Thursday, Oct. 25 and the end of the play. Second, concluding Saturday, Oct. 27. the length of the play was just All in all, “The Musical a bit too long at two hours, Comedy Murders of 1940” as attention and patience was mildly entertaining. As started to waver towards the with most things, however, finale. Lastly, Helsa’s thick the performance had its German accent made it hard Due to supplytoavailability at at each positives and negatives. understand her times.clinic, shots will be on a first-come, first-serve The actors played their Was “The Musical Comedy parts well and the stage Murders of 1940” worth basis; no appointment is necessary. meant to recreate a 1940’s watching? Overall, yes it era mansion The was cost nicely statedand previously, per was. shot As is $25 is payable done. If a particular character the performance’s positives at the time of service. was the best of all, it was outweighed its negatives. As Eddie McCuen, played by C. a side note, Michigan Tech Anyone under the age Dierberger. The revolving students are granted access of 18 cannot and lifting bookcases really atbe no charge to such Visual were a clever vaccinated touch. Small without and Performing Arts events bursts of humorparental injected into through the Experience Tech permission. the actors’ dialogue made fee. “Free” is almost always for some laughs among the great incentive for cash For more information, contact Benefits at audience, which was fairly strapped college students.
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Peninsula Room For more info, contact Benefits at benefits @mtu. edu. Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer.