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Band Presents Second Concert

The University of Virginia
Concert Band, conducted by Joel
Lazar. Assistant Professor of Music,
will give its second concert of the
season on Sunday at 8 P.M., in
Cabell. Hall Auditorium. Featured
soloist will be David Weinberger
now in his fourth year at the
University. Mr. Weinberger was
president of the Concert Band in
1968-69 and has been the
ensemble's principal clarinetist
since 1968, playing also with the
University Woodwind Quintet and
the University Orchestra. He will
appear as soloist with the Concert
Band in Carl Maria von Weber's
"Concertino."

Sunday's program will begin
with two military marches written
in the 1830's by the Italian operatic
composers Donizetti and Rossini,
for the Sultan of Turkey. The
Concert Band will also perform
Bach's "Passacaglia and Fugue in C
minor" in an unpublished
transcription by Donald
Hunsberger, conductor of the
Eastman Symphonic Wind

Ensemble, and the 1965
"Variations on a Korean Folk
Song" by John Barnes Chance,
winner of the American
Bandmasters Association's 1966
Ostwald Award. The ensemble will
offer Wagner's "Good Friday Spell..
from "Parsifal", announced for
performance earlier this fall but not
heard due to a delay in arrival of
performance material.

The major and concluding work
of Sunday's concert will be the
1961 "sinfonietta for Concert
Band" of Ingolf Dahl, a member of
the music faculty of the University
of Southern California from 1949
until his death last August. The
University Concert Band's
December 13 program is open to
the public without charge.