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Phillips Music Guild Concert Series

Martin University hosts the Robert A. Phillips Free Memorial Concert Series in the Martin University Gathertorium. This concert series is put on by The Phillips Music Guild of Indianapolis. These concerts are offered free to the public. A schedule of performances is below. The Phillips Music Guild of Indianapolis is an association of volunteer musicians that has been offering an intensive instruction program for young wind instrument players since 1997. The volunteers of the Guild donate more than 2000 hours annually mentoring young students in the Indianapolis area. For more information on the Guild, please visit www.phillipsguild.org, or call 317-788-8536 or 317-291-9506.

Schedule

February 2008

Thursday 2/7/08 - Jazz Renegades Dance Band, featuring the music of Billy Strayhorn, with music he composed by himself, not with Duke Elllington. Our soloists will be vocalists Crystal Black and Alice Hopkins. Strayhorn classics such as Lush Life, Take the A Train, and many others.

Thursday 2/21/08 - Concert -CANCELLED

March 2008

Thursday 3/6/08 - Concert By Quarter of Sax saxophone quartet, and Meridian Trombone quartet. The concert will feature music of the Brown Brothers Saxophone Orchestra (Rock Stars of the 20's and 30's). This music was thought lost for many years, and has just been recovered and republished. Delightful titles such as Kitten Scamper, That Moanin’ Saxophone Rag, Russian Rag (on a theme of Rachmaninoff), and Triumph of True Tones give a hint of the delightful variety in this music. The trombonists will add to the excitement with arrangements of popular tunes, transcriptions of classical warhorses, and original modern music for the combination. Both groups will combine for a finale for all 8 players.

Wednesday 3/19/08 - Concert Music for Winds and Strings, featuring soloists from Slaughterhouse Five Woodwind Quintet with string accompaniment, closing with a piece by Jiri Jaroch, "Childrens’ Suite" for nine players.

April 2008

Thursday 4/3/08 - Phillips Wind Ensemble Spring Concert, featuring the music of the British Isles. This concert will have music by Haydn Wood, Mark Camphouse, Gustav Holst, William Walton, and will feature vocalists Crystal Black and Ron Berry, and organist Alice Hopkins.

May 2008

Thursday 5/1/08 - Phillips Music Guild Spring Concert. This concert will showcase the talents of the students meeting every Saturday during the school year at Martin University. These students, mostly from Middle School, have made great strides during the year, and will be playing many and various styles of music that they have learned.

Thursday 5/22/08 - Concert by Slaughterhouse Five Woodwind Quintet, featuring Jongen’s Sinfonia Concertante and Delaney’s Suite for Woodwind Quintet (in memoriam). We also will premiere the new quintet by local composer Regina Bollinger.

July 2008

Date TBA-Chamber Concert during MU 150.10 class