Monday concert at Stambaugh featuring 2 Dana groups

YOUNGSTOWN

The Concert Band and Wind Ensemble of Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music will perform a concert 8 p.m. Monday at Stambaugh Auditorium. Entitled “Portraits and Tributes,” the concert will feature music written to commemorate a significant event or as a musical portrait.

The evening will open with the YSU Concert Band, conducted by Brandt Payne, presenting Ralph Vaughan Williams’ wind band classic “Folk Song Suite,” Jager’s “Third Suite for Band” and LoPresti’s “Elegy for a Young American,” a musical elegy to the memory of the late President John F. Kennedy. The Concert Band concludes with “Washington Greys March” by Claudio S. Grafulla.

The YSU Wind Ensemble, led by Stephen L. Gage, will open with American composer Aaron Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait,” the narration of which is based on Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” The feature work for the Wind Ensemble is David Maslanka’s “Symphony No. 1: A Child’s Garden of Dreams.”

Tickets are available only at the door. Cost is $6 for adults and $4 for children. Anyone with a valid YSU ID is admitted free. For more information, call 330-941-3636.