The Bethel University Music Department will present its spring instrumental concerts Thursday, April 16 and Friday, April 17 in the Everest-Rohrer Auditorium on Bethel’s campus.
On Thursday, April 16, the Orchestra and Percussion Concert will take place at 7 p.m. The Percussion Ensemble will present a “O’ Beautiful,” “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” and a Fife and Drum Medley, including colonial period drums. The Chamber Orchestra will present the first and fourth movements of the New World Symphony, “American Salute” and “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
On Friday, April 17, the Jazz Ensemble and Wind Ensemble will perform in a combined concert at 7 p.m. The Jazz Ensemble will present “Celebrating America,” featuring “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “It Don’t mean a thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing,” “What a Wonderful World,” The Beatles’ “Something,” a Glen Miller Salute and Chicago’s “Make Me Smile.” The Wind Ensemble will present “Sousa’s America,” celebrating the works of John Philip Sousa.
These concerts are free general admission and open to the public.