Contact: Public Relations
(863) 680-4118

Symphony band
performs at Florida Southern

LAKELAND, Fla. (March 26, 2002) - Florida Southern College presents the FSC symphony band, performing April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Branscomb Auditorium.

Conductor Jo Jossim leads the band as it performs several contrasting pieces, including Illiyrian Dances, by Alfred Reed; Molly on the Shore, by Percy Grainger, which features a clarinet soloist and woodwind section; Symphony No. 2, by John Barnes Chance; Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral by Richard Wagner. The Wind Ensemble will also be performing Postcard, by Frank Ticheli; Cartoon, by Paul Hart; Second Suite in F, by Gustav Holst; Yiddish Dances, by Adam Gorb; and The Alcotts, by Charles Ives.

Tickets are $12. FSC students are admitted free of charge; non-FSC students are admitted at half price. For ticket information, contact the Branscomb Auditorium box office at (863) 680-4296.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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