Mission concert
The fourth annual free Flint Hills Community Band Concert will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Kaw Mission in Council Grove. Led by Dennis Brooks, the band is comprised of musicians from Council Grove, Emporia, Cottonwood Falls, Alma, Alta Vista, Dwight, Herington and Manhattan. The program will feature music “reminiscent of the days gone by including selections that were popular during the Civil War,” stated the news release. There also will be John Phillip Sousa marches, jazz and blues and selections from familiar musicals. The band will again perform the Morris County Exposition, a march written in 1899 to be performed at the 1900 Morris County Fair. New this year will be the Kansas State University Tap Dance Ensemble, who will dance to “The Thunderer,” a march by Sousa.
The Voices of the Wind People pageant committee will serve homemade ice cream and cake during the concert as a fundraiser for the pageant, which will be held at 8 p.m. Sept. 12 and 13 in the Council Grove Riverbed Park.
Community Chorus
Christmas classics will be the focus of rehearsals for the ESU Community Chorus this fall. The group will have the first rehearsal at 7 p.m. Aug. 25 in Room 132 at Beach Music Hall on the campus of Emporia State University. Rehearsals are from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays through the fall. No audition is required. Singers may purchase the music at the first two rehearsals or at Flint Hills Music.
The Chorus will sing Vivaldi’s “Gloria” with the ESU A Cappella Choir and ESU Orchestra, along with the traditional Christmas carols at the Dec. 7 concert, conducted by Terry Barham.
For more information, call Barham at 341-5436 or e-mail: tbarham@emporia.edu.
Symphony auditions
The Topeka Symphony has announced auditions for the coming season on Sept. 3. There are openings for principal flute, section horn and section violin, viola, cello and bass. The symphony performs a seven-concert season that includes four Masterworks programs and three Discovery concerts. Registration deadline is Aug. 25. For audition requirements or to schedule a time, call (785) 232-2032.
Poster contest
Children ages five to 13 in Kansas are encouraged to enter artwork for a statewide poster contest, “Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day,” a nationwide effort to reduce traffic fatalities by urging motorists to take extra precautions when driving or riding in vehicles, said the news release. A total of 18 regional winners in the six regions and age groups (5-7, 8-10 and 11-13) across the state will each receive a bicycle donated by Wal-Mart stores in Kansas along with a helmet donated by Safe Kids Kansas. Three statewide winners will receive family packages at the Courtyard Marriott in Junction City, the Capitol Plaza in Topeka and the Grand Prairie Hotel-Convention Center in Hutchinson and $50 gas cards from the Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association of Kansas.
All entries must be postmarked by Sept. 5 and mailed to AAA Kansas, Public Affairs, 3545 SW 6th St., Topeka, KS 66606. For more information, call Kim Stich at (785) 296-3585 or see www.ksdot.org.
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