{"id":12214,"date":"2019-05-07T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:55:17","slug":"spring-concerts-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/spring-concerts-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Street Winds, Jazz Band to Perform Spring Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy Street Winds will put the zoo in Kalamazoo with a spring concert titled \u201cAnimal Crackers\u201d at 8 p.m. this Friday. It\u2019s one of two Kalamazoo College music ensembles scheduled to perform this weekend in Dalton Theater at Light Fine Arts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11903\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11903\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Academy-Street-Winds-Winter-Concert-600x270.jpg\" alt=\"Academy Street Winds Spring Concert\" width=\"584\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Academy-Street-Winds-Winter-Concert-600x270.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Academy-Street-Winds-Winter-Concert-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Academy-Street-Winds-Winter-Concert-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Academy-Street-Winds-Winter-Concert-500x225.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Academy-Street-Winds-Winter-Concert.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music Professor Tom Evans will lead the Academy Street Winds in one of two spring concerts scheduled for this weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This spring concert will feature pieces about animals, from Eric Whitacre\u2019s <em>The Seal Lullaby<\/em> to <em>Lion King Highlights<\/em> by Elton John. Music Professor Tom Evans, serving as the ensemble\u2019s conductor, will weave the animal world together from sky to land and sea to convey that animals provide us with great benefits we would otherwise miss in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Street Winds provides a performance outlet for woodwind, brass and percussion students. Community musicians joined the ensemble in winter 2016 to expand the group\u2019s sound and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The group performs one concert each term, playing exciting arrays of challenging band music. The ensemble is a favorite of audiences as the programs are coordinated around diverse themes, which allow for performances of much-loved pieces, both classic and contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>A second ensemble, known for encouraging audience members to dance and twist at performances, will invoke a theme of \u201cDizzying\u201d this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019s Jazz Band will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday. This band, also directed by Evans, pulls together an eclectic collection of contemporary and classic jazz arrangements to provide both the student performers and the audience with an electric experience.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/international-jazz-day\/\">International Jazz Day<\/a> interview, said the band\u2019s play list will include some early jazz, swing, bop, fusion, funk and Latin varieties. <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/music\/Ensembles\/jazzband\/\">Hear past performances<\/a> through the music department\u2019s Jazz Band website.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on either spring concert, please contact Susan Lawrence in the Music Department at 269.337.7070 or <a href=\"mailto:susan.lawrence@kzoo.edu\">susan.lawrence@kzoo.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy Street Winds will put the zoo in Kalamazoo with a spring concert titled \u201cAnimal Crackers\u201d at 8 p.m. this Friday. 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It\u2019s one of two Kalamazoo College music ensembles scheduled to perform this weekend in Dalton Theater at Light Fine Arts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11903\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11903\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Academy-Street-Winds-Winter-Concert-600x270.jpg\" alt=\"Academy Street Winds Spring Concert\" width=\"584\" height=\"263\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music Professor Tom Evans will lead the Academy Street Winds in one of two spring concerts scheduled for this weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This spring concert will feature pieces about animals, from Eric Whitacre\u2019s <em>The Seal Lullaby<\/em> to <em>Lion King Highlights<\/em> by Elton John. Music Professor Tom Evans, serving as the ensemble\u2019s conductor, will weave the animal world together from sky to land and sea to convey that animals provide us with great benefits we would otherwise miss in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Street Winds provides a performance outlet for woodwind, brass and percussion students. Community musicians joined the ensemble in winter 2016 to expand the group\u2019s sound and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The group performs one concert each term, playing exciting arrays of challenging band music. The ensemble is a favorite of audiences as the programs are coordinated around diverse themes, which allow for performances of much-loved pieces, both classic and contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>A second ensemble, known for encouraging audience members to dance and twist at performances, will invoke a theme of \u201cDizzying\u201d this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019s Jazz Band will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday. This band, also directed by Evans, pulls together an eclectic collection of contemporary and classic jazz arrangements to provide both the student performers and the audience with an electric experience.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/international-jazz-day\/\">International Jazz Day<\/a> interview, said the band\u2019s play list will include some early jazz, swing, bop, fusion, funk and Latin varieties. <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/music\/Ensembles\/jazzband\/\">Hear past performances<\/a> through the music department\u2019s Jazz Band website.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on either spring concert, please contact Susan Lawrence in the Music Department at 269.337.7070 or <a href=\"mailto:susan.lawrence@kzoo.edu\">susan.lawrence@kzoo.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}