Concert band on stage Nov. 13 at Abraham Baldwin

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November 1, 2012

Concert band on stage Nov. 13 at Abraham Baldwin

Anonymous CNHI The Tifton Gazette Thu Nov 01, 2012, 09:27 PM EDT

TIFTON — Up tempo tunes, an original composition for clarinets and a patriotic finale will highlight the annual fall concert on Nov. 13 by the Concert Band at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Band Director Johnny Folsom said the concert begins at 7 p.m. in Howard Auditorium. This event is open to the public at no charge.

A new faculty member at ABAC this year, Folsom serves as an instructor and the director of the ABAC Concert Band in the music department in the School of Liberal Arts. He has spent 25 years as a successful band director in both Alabama and Georgia, most recently with the Cairo High School Band. A member of the Georgia Music Educators Association, Folsom is the past president of the Alabama Bandmasters Association. Troy State University’s music faculty selected Folsom as its 1996 Alumnus of the Year. He was recently inducted into the Alabama Bandmasters’ Hall of Fame and into the National High School Band Directors’ Hall of Fame.

The performance will begin with Samuel Hazo’s fast-paced composition “In Flight”. The work depicts the sensations of a ride in a fighter jet airplane. Then the band will perform the overture to Franz von Suppe’s comic opera “Das Pensionat”, followed by a dramatic tribute to the survivors of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, “Silent Stands the Elm”. The ABAC Clarinet Ensemble will be featured in an original composition, “The Legend of Zelda”, by Ashley Connelly, a music major from Ochlocknee.

Folsom’s college band director, Dr. John M. Long, Director Emeritus of Troy University, will be the evening’s guest conductor. Long served as director of bands at Troy from 1965-1996, is a past president of the American Bandmasters Association, and is a member of the National Band Association's Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors and the Alabama Bandmasters Hall of Fame.

In 2010, Long was named as honorary president of the National Band Association. In March, he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award. He will conduct John Philip Sousa’s march, “The Fairest of the Fair”.

The ABAC Concert Band will also perform a work composed by Ralph Ford about South Georgia’s Flint River, “Voices of the Thronateeska”. The program will conclude with the patriotic finale “America the Brave” by Stephen Melillo.

For more information on the concert, interested persons can contact Folsom at (229) 391-4944.

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