{"id":18714,"date":"2019-04-23T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=18714"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:52:53","slug":"esu-concert-band-to-present-spring-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-concert-band-to-present-spring-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Concert Band to Present Spring Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s musical heritage, both familiar and unfamiliar, will be highlighted in <em>American Vignettes<\/em>, the 32<sup>nd<\/sup> annual spring band concert of East Stroudsburg University\u2019s concert band on Thursday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Cecilia S. Cohen of the University\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Hodge, director of Warrior Bands, will conduct a program that includes <em>Fanfare<\/em> <em>for the Common Man<\/em> and <em>The Promise of Living<\/em> by Aaron Copland; <em>The Thunder<\/em> by John Phillip Sousa; \u201cAfter the Thunderer,\u201d Movement II from <em>Symphony on Themes of J. P.<\/em> <em>Sousa<\/em> by Ira Hearshen; and his own arrangement of the hymn, <em>Nearer My God to Thee<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Band member Caitlyn McAtee, a senior majoring in history from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., noted that one piece on the\u00a0 program, <em>Symphony No.1\u2019In Memoriam Dresden\u2019<\/em>, by contemporary American composer Daniel Buckvich may be new to many members of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis particularly moving piece evokes the bombing of Dresden, Germany by the Allies during World War II,\u201d McAtee said. \u201cThe beautiful interactions between the different sections of the piece are especially powerful in evoking the event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting the diversity of the program, McAttee added that, \u201cLeonard Bernstein\u2019s <em>Selections from West Side Story<\/em> is always fun to play since so many people enjoy this familiar piece from American musical theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concert, sponsored by the ESU department of theatre, is open to the public at no cost.\u00a0 For more information about the concert, please email <a href=\"mailto:esuarts@esu.edu\">esuarts@esu.edu<\/a> or call the Fine Arts and Performing Arts events line at 570-422-3483.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s musical heritage, both familiar and unfamiliar, will be highlighted in <em>American Vignettes<\/em><span class=\"newshide\">, the 32<sup>nd<\/sup> annual spring band concert of East Stroudsburg University\u2019s concert band on Thursday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Cecilia S. Cohen of the University\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":18723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18724,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions\/18724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}