[OCMEA] Fwd: ICB Concert with Col. Arnald Gabriel

[Edward O'Rourke]

Note forwarded announcement.

Edward J. O'Rourke
<eorourke at twcny.rr.com>

"Count any day lost you don't catch hell for something!"  William E.  
Bishop Jr.


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> From: "Philip D. Krasicky" <pdk4 at cornell.edu>
> Date: May 4, 2008 11:33:58 PM EDT
> To: pdk4 at cornell.edu
> Cc: Betty Davenport <badclar at yahoo.com>, cpj6 at cornell.edu,  
> matthew.marsit at cornell.edu, Richard Wheeler <WHEELER at cortland.edu>,  
> kip at ccmr.cornell.edu, dfh1 at cornell.edu, kjc5 at cornell.edu, Julia  
> Kregenow:;, vwk1 at cornell.edu
> Subject: ICB Concert with Col. Arnald Gabriel
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Below is some background about our upcoming Ithaca Concert Band  
> concert with the legendary Colonel Arnald Gabriel at the helm and  
> Dale Underwood as virtuoso saxophone soloist. If you are able to  
> attend the concert, I'm sure you will enjoy it thoroughly. Feel  
> free to forward this note to anyone else, including students,  
> bands, and band directors, who you think might appreciate it.
>
> Best,
>
> --Phil
>
> **********
>
> ITHACA CONCERT BAND SPRING CONCERT
> with guest conductor, Col. Arnald D. Gabriel
> and guest soloist, Dale Underwood, alto saxophone
> THURSDAY, MAY 15, at 8 PM, FORD HALL, ITHACA COLLEGE
>
> The Ithaca Concert Band is thrilled to announce a concert featuring  
> two world-renowned guests. The band will be conducted by Colonel  
> Arnald D. Gabriel (USAF Ret.), Conductor Emeritus, the United  
> States Air Force Band.  The superb alto saxophonist Dale Underwood  
> will join Col. Gabriel and the band as soloist in "A Gershwin  
> Fantasy" by Ralph Martino, on themes from George Gershwin's most  
> wonderful songs.
>
> The free concert will be in Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Thursday,  
> May 15 at 8 PM.  The program also will include the overture to  
> "Orpheus in the Underworld" by Offenbach, and the overture to "La  
> Forza del
> Destino" by Verdi.
>
> Both Col. Gabriel and Mr. Underwood are natives of Cortland and  
> received musical instruction at Ithaca College.  Another IC  
> alumnus, band member, and noted local composer, Gregory Rudgers,  
> will also
> conduct his own composition, "del Destino", on the program. The  
> band's resident conductors, Professors Elizabeth Peterson and Keith  
> Kaiser of Ithaca College have arranged the visit and inspired the  
> band to take on this exciting challenge.
>
> Col. Arnald D. Gabriel retired from the United States Air Force in  
> 1985 following a distinguished 36 year military career, at which  
> time he was awarded his third Legion of Merit for his service to  
> the United States Air Force and to music education throughout the  
> country. He served as Commander/Conductor of the internationally  
> renowned U.S. Air Force Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Singing  
> Sergeants from 1964 to 1985. In 1990, he was named the first  
> Conductor Emeritus of the USAF Band.
>
> Col. Gabriel is now Emeritus Professor of music at George Mason  
> University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he was Conductor of the GMU  
> Symphony Orchestra and Chairman of the Department of Music.  Col.  
> Gabriel holds an honorary Doctor of Music degree from his alma  
> mater, Ithaca College.  Among his multitude of honors and awards is  
> having been the youngest person ever to have been inducted into the  
> National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band  
> Conductors.  He has conducted
> hundreds of the world's finest bands and orchestras including the  
> Pittsburgh and Minneapolis symphony orchestras, the Dallas Wind  
> Symphony, as well as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
>
> Dale Underwood, saxophone soloist, has been called "the Heifetz of  
> the alto saxophone" by the Washington Post. He is internationally  
> recognized as one of the foremost classical saxophonists of our
> time.  Mr. Underwood has toured extensively throughout the world as  
> a featured soloist. He has performed with the Boston Pops  
> Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Australian Wind  
> Orchestra, and the National Conservatory Orchestra in Sao Paolo,  
> Brazil, among many others. In 1993, Mr. Underwood made his Carnegie  
> Hall debut in a program featuring Claude T. Smith's Fantasy  
> (written especially for Mr. Underwood), and A Gershwin Fantasy.   
> Mr. Underwood is also a prolific recording artist, and his vast  
> repertoire includes more than thirty works written especially for  
> him by noted composers.

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