The 40-member group will play a varied program of music by award-winning American composers, including Henry Fillmore, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, William Schuman and Jimmy Webb.

The feature work on the program will be R.R. Bennett

The ensemble, directed by Dr. Stephen W. Sachs, professor of music at EMU, will give a program on the theme, “The Fantastic.”

Selections will include “I’ve Made My Plans for the Summer,” written by John Philip Sousa and featuring Eric Dicken on trumpet, “The Winds of Poseidon” by Robert W. Smith, “Gandalf” by Johann de Meij, “Tocata” and “La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Caturla” by Shelley Hanson, “Prelude on ‘My Lord, What a Mornin'” by Carl Strommen, and “Raise of the Son” by Rossano Galante.

The Wind Ensemble is comprised of 63 instrumentalists, including EMU students and alumni, local community players, high school students from Broadway, Harrisonburg, Eastern Mennonite and Robert E. Lee, and a student from Shelburne Middle School.

Admission to the concert is free; however, a $5 donation at the door will be accepted – but not required – for the EMU music student scholarship fund.