KSC Concert Band Performs "Rockets and Refrains"

From Connie Lester, Redfern:

The KSC Concert Band will perform “Rockets and Refrains”on Thursday, November 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Redfern Arts Center.

A transcription of Franz Joseph Haydn’s St. Anthony Divertimento will be performed in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Austrian’s passing, and this composer’s enduring influence on the world will be marked by the performance of Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn by Norman Dello Joio. Lucien Caillet’s transcription of the “Aria: The Song of Our Country” from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 by Heitor Villa-Lobos also will be performed.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Villa-Lobos, often described as the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. KSC music education major and assistant conductor Lori Kjellander will conduct two works: Roland Barrett’s Firefall and _Four Dance Episodes for Band, _a 2004 composition by Gary Gilroy.

Trumpeter Nathan Shower of Merrimack, N.H., will be the featured soloist on the Prayer of St. Gregory, composed by Alan Hovhaness. Tickets are available through the box office at 8-2168 or online.