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POPS TICKETS ON SALE AT DOOR, 10/7/06 | |
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From: Parent Relations Saturday, October 7, Pops Concert8:30 pm.; JMU Convocation Center (Entrance D) $11 per person, including JMU students Tickets will be available at the door. Welcome by President Linwood H. Rose Main Show - Featuring the JMU Chorale, the Jazz Ensemble, the Wind Symphony and the Marching Royal Dukes AN EVENING OF MUSICAL DELIGHTS There is no better way to complete the day than to attend the Family Weekend Pops Concert with a smorgasbord of musical delights. Whether you like Broadway, pop, show tunes, patriotic or classical music, the Family Weekend Pops Concert will have something for you. This concert will feature award-winning JMU School of Music ensembles including the Chorale, Jazz Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra and the Marching Royal Dukes. (Make your reservations early, this show has sold out prior to show time for the last five years!) THE JMU CHORALE, directed by Patrick M. Walders, is the university's select large choral group. This outstanding 60-member chorus has performed concerts throughout the East Coast and at the Washington Cathedral. The chorale's repertoire ranges from choral music masterworks to Broadway, folk and pop styles. THE JAZZ ENSEMBLE, led by Charles Dotas, is JMU's foremost jazz group and boasts a repertoire of all major styles and ages of big band jazz. The band has performed at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, the Montreaux International Jazz and Blues Festival, and with the Navy Commodores Jazz Ensemble. THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Robert McCashin, conductor, is a select group of about 75 musicians that presents approximately six performances each year of the mainstream symphonic works of the 19th and 20th centuries. The symphony has performed throughout the region as part of music festivals, conferences and concert series in Virginia and West Virginia. THE MARCHING ROYAL DUKES, J. Patrick Rooney, conductor, is one of America's premier marching bands. The MRDs were awarded the Sudler Trophy, the "Heisman Trophy" of college marching bands, in 1994. Further acclaim has come from the band's participation in two presidential inaugural parades, two European tours and in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. For more information on Family Weekend, please go to http://www.jmu.edu/parents and click on the Family Weekend link. |
 
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Publisher: JMU
Web office For Information Contact: Parents
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