FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s Concert Band, under the direction of Anita Jerosch, will present its spring concert on Sunday, April 15.
The program will feature the Skowhegan Brass Quintet in an arrangement of music from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” Other Broadway tunes will include “Seventy Six Trombones” from “The Music Man;” selections from “Phantom of the Opera” and “Candide;” and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.”
At intermission, in what has become a UMF Concert Band tradition, the UMF Saxophone Couer-tet will perform.
The Skowhegan Brass Quintet was formed in November 1979 by five musicians who wanted to bring Christmas carols to patients and staff at Reddington-Fairview hospital. The group has been playing continuously since. The one remaining member of the founding five is trombonist Peter Foxwell, who plays with Ray Phillips and Ciff Bigoney on trumpet, Karen Nevers on trombone and Ron Small on tuba.
Jerosch, a versatile bass trombonist and euphonium player, is a member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and directs the Edith Jones Project, a modern, big band jazz group. She has performed with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Maine State Music Theater and has played for Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, Barry Manilow and The Manhattan Transfer.
The concert will begin at 3 p.m. in Nordica Auditorium. Admission is $6, $5 for seniors, free for children and UMF students.
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