Symphonic band performs Feb. 21
Guest conductor Elizabeth Peterson joins conductor Kevin Gray
Richardson for the Appalachian Symphonic Band performance Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. at Appalachian State
University.
The performance will be in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. Admission
is free.
Peterson is an associate professor of music and member of the music education
department at the Ithaca College School of Music. She has conducted the Ithaca College Brass Choir
and All-Campus Band and currently conducts the Ithaca College Symphonic Band.
She will
conduct the symphonic band’s performance of Percy Aldridge Grainger’s “Irish Tune from County Derry”
and “Shepherd’s Hey.”
Richardson is associate director of bands in Appalachian’s Hayes
School of Music and director of the Marching Mountaineers marching band. He came to Appalachian from
Texas, where he earned his doctoral degree of musical arts in conducting at the University of
Houston. He taught high school band for 10 years in Texas and college band for six years at
Northwestern State University.
He will conduct the band’s performance of “Gavorkna Fanfare”
by Jack Stamp, “Variants on a Mediaeval Tune” by Norman Dello Joio, “Angels in the Architecture” by
Frank Ticheli, featuring soprano Hilary Kearns, and “Strange Humors” by John
Mackey.
