The Symphonic Band brings the sounds of classical and modern compositions to Pottle Auditorium.  
The performance, which will be conducted by Paul Frechou, will be at the Pottle Music Building Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 8.
The Symphonic Band will be performing the compositions that night along with guest soloist, Victor Drescher and guest conductors, Berchmans J. Perez III and Robert Campo. Band members are undergraduate music majors, whose primary applied music course is in a wind or percussion instrument.
The band will be playing Campo’s newest composition that night.
“First, my very sincere and deep gratitude to Paul Frechou and the music department of Southeastern for premiering this piece,” said Campo. “This piece was finished in November of 2013 and is influenced by the works of W. Francis McBeth. As a high school band director, his works are among my favorites and without them no high school program would be complete.”  
“Valdrez-Norwegian March” will be the opening number of the night. The piece was composed by Johannes Hanssen (1874-1967), a bandmaster, composer and teacher from Norway.
“Valdres is a beautiful region in Norway between Oslo and Bergen,” stated Hanssen in the program notes. “The first three measures contain the old signature fanfare for the Valdres Battalion, which is based on an ancient melody formerly played on the lur [a straight wooden trumpet].”
In addition to the compositions being played that night, the students from the orchestration class were able to suggest pieces to be featured in the performance for their Orchestration Project, and the members of the Symphonic Band voted on the compositions they wanted to perform.
The band will finish the night with selections from Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins. The songs will include “Feed The Birds,” “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “I Love To Laugh” and many more.