Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Band Building Ticket [PAGE 2]

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For the Band Alumni only (including spouses!) there will be a reunion in the Illini Onion at 5:00 p.m., followed by a banquet at 6:00 p.m. in the Ballroom. At 8:00 p.m. in the Auditorium the Dedication Concert of the Concert Band, Mark Hinds ley, conductor, will appropriately climax a day now solemn, now festive. Guest conductors will be former university of Illinois students and Bands staff members who are also members of the American Bandmasters Associations Director Qneritus Albert Austin Harding, Glenn Cliffe Bainum, Raymond Dvorak, Clarence Sawhill, MLlbum Carey, Russell Howland, Bruce Jones, George Wilson, and Keith Wilson. Russell Howland will conduct the premiere of his ILLINI SAGA and Owen Reed of Michigan State University will conduct the first performance of his work, RENASCENCE, both commissioned especially for this occasion. Saturday, March 8 An Alumni Band is being formed for an intimate session in the Band Building with Director Qneritus A. A. Harding. He will call on his former assistants and other Illini members of the ABA to conduct. Physical limitations of the room dictate that the audience for this special event must be limited to the band alumni and members of ABA. The rehearsal is at 9*00, the performance is at 2:30. The final concert, by the Concert Band, will be played in the Auditorium at 8j00 p.m. Roy Harris will conduct the premiere performance of his newest and commissioned work for band, a symphonic tone poem based upon themes of the prairie. There will be a first performance of the winning composition in the Ostwald ABA competition. The other conductors on this program are all universally known members of the ABA: Harold Bachman, Charles Brendler, Hugh Curry, Frederick Fennell, Richard Goldman, Ferde Grofe, Earl Irons, William Revelli, Prank Simon, and Manley Whitcomb. The concert will close In a burst of patriotic glory with the newly elected president of the American Bandmasters Association conducting THE STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER. Admission to the concerts will be by complimentary ticket on the basis of "first come, first served". A form for requesting tickets is attached. We know from experience that we will not be able to accommodate all who want tickets. We ask that you request only the tickets you know you will use since those that may not be used will deprive others of the opportunity of attending. To expedite the handling of your ticket request please enclose a. stamped, self-addressed envelope (no stamp is needed if the university mail is to be used). No tickets will be necessary for the convocation or the symposium, nor for the presentation of the Band Building if weather permits this ceremony to be held out-of-doors. Should the weather be unfavorable, only a small audience can be admitted to the rehearsal room of the new building. When these three historic days are over I am sure you will be glad you shared them with us.... I know for a certainty that we will be glad that you were our guest. Yours truly,

&r/ M. Duker Assistant to the Director GM);end