YSU band, ensemble in concert

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A concert by the Youngstown State University Concert Band, Wind Ensemble and the 2018 YSU High School Side-By-Side Honors Wind Ensemble will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave.

Admission is $7 ($6 for senior citizens and students from other schools).

The Honors ensemble includes students from 20 area high school band programs, who will perform alongside the YSU Wind Ensemble during the final portion of the concert.

The YSU Concert Band will open the performance with Frank Ticheli’s “Joy Revisited”; Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide Suite,” arranged by Clare Grundman; and “March Grandioso” by Roland Seitz, arranged by Alfred Reed.

The YSU Wind Ensemble will open its portion of the program with Dvorak’s “Carnival Overture” as set by former YSU music professor Mark Walker.

After a brief intermission, the 91-member combined YSU Wind Ensemble and High School Side-By-Side Honors Wind Ensemble will perform together.