SDSU’s Coast to Coast Concert Showcases
Premiere Work, Faculty Stars, and New Facilities
SDSU
Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra set highlight concert in Montezuma Hall, new
Conrad
Prebys Aztec Student Union
(San
Diego) – The SDSU Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra present Coast to Coast, a concert featuring
music inspired by two of America’s great cities, New York and San Diego, on Sunday,
March 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the beautiful, new Montezuma Hall of the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student
Union.
Tickets
for Coast to Coast are $10, general
admission, and $5 students, and can be purchased online at music.sdsu.edu or
at the box office one hour before performance. Free admission for
high school band and orchestra students.
Coast to Coast will highlight the
talents of two of SDSU’s top ensembles, the SDSU Wind Symphony, conducted by Shannon Kitelinger, and the SDSU Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Michael Gerdes, as well as faculty
members from the School of Music and Dance, and San Diego Symphony members.
Jazz
faculty Richard Thompson will perform George
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Composition professor Joseph Waters’s newest piece Suite Noir, inspired by San Diego, will
receive its world premiere with the SDSU Symphony and the new music ensemble
SWARMIUS. Other pieces will include Three Sketches, composed by Professor
Emeritus Merle Hogg, and Quiet City
by Aaron Copland, featuring solos by SDSU faculty and San Diego Symphony
members John Wilds (trumpet), and Sarah Skuster (oboe).
This
semester, the Wind Symphony and Symphony
Orchestra
are inviting students, alumni and community members to ‘come home’ to
SDSU. “We have a semester of concerts
geared toward engaging our alumni by highlighting our students, faculty, and
new facilities,” said Shannon Kitelinger, Director of Bands. “The Coast to Coast concert will display what SDSU has to offer on
several levels; our talented faculty, splendid student performers and the
beautiful new facilities at the Conrad
Prebys Aztec Student Union.”
Still
To Come in the Arts at SDSU:
A
Thousand Plates Through March 30, 2015, SDSU Downtown Gallery
SDSU
Opera Theatre: Baroque To Britten April 10 – 12, 2015, Smith
Recital Hall
SDSU
Jazz Ensemble with Sunny Wilkinson April 16, 2015, Smith
Recital Hall
Lux
Boreal: Fit/Misfit April 19, 2015, Dance Studio Theatre
To Be
Certain of the Dawn April 25, 2015, College Avenue Baptist Church 
