Bands combining for concert Friday

Dr. Adam Lambert, CSC director of bands, and the Wind Symphony are using the concert to prepare for a clinic they will host at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln next month.

The group will play all of the pieces it will perform in Lincoln, including “Original Suite,” “Molly on the Shore,” “Cajun Folk Songs 2,” and “Courtly Airs and Dances.”

The community band’s performance will be the first one under the lead of its new director, Lauren Stephens. Stephens, a CSC graduate student who earned a music degree from Kent State University in 2000, became the director this fall after her husband, Dr. Michael Stephens, became director of the CSC Jazz Ensemble.

The 25-member group will perform five numbers, including an arrangement of “Amazing Grace” and a march titled “Marcho Poco.” Other pieces on the program are “Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision,” the “Black Forest Overture” and “Brook Green Suite.”

Jake Donker, a Chadron High School student, will be featured as a trumpet soloist during the “Amazing Grace” rendition.

Lambert and the Wind Symphony will host the Instrumental Conductors Symposium at the collegiate portion of the Nebraska Music Educators Convention on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at UNL.

The clinic will be patterned after University of North Texas Conductors Collegium, attended by Lambert in June.

Conductors will have 15 minutes to conduct and receive feedback. Four guest clinicians will be present, rotating two giving live feedback while one provides critique by recorded audio.

A DVD will be available of the students conducting performance for future study.