UAA Wind Ensemble: Dancing at Stonehenge

Friday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
Sydney Laurence Theatre, Center for Performing Arts (621 W. 6th Ave.)

The University Wind Ensemble will perform an exciting program of music that will make you want to move your feet! Why? Because dance is the theme of this concert.

The title work, "Dancing at Stonehenge" by Anthony Suter, borrows from a variety of resources such as Brazilian music, American Jazz, and Renaissance music. Stonehenge is thought to have been used for a myriad of purposes -- a burial site, an astronomical calendar, and a site of early pantheistic worship, just to name a few. Suter believed that from this unclear diversity, it seemed fitting that an assemblage of varied musical materials could collide. And, so it is with the program as well.

The program features Renaissance, ragtime, ballet, stylized dances, and dances that frankly are not true dances but suggest movement simply in a symphonic way. Among these varied works are two compositions for wind band by Emmy award-winning composers Leonard Bernstein and Norman Dello Joio.

For tickets, move your feet to the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts box office, or go online to CenterTix.net. Prices are $18/$15 seniors, students, and military.

For more information contact, please contact Mark Wolbers at (907) 786-1508 or e-mail afmew2uaa.alaska.edu.