Piano Americana: An Evening with Mia Hynes and Friends
Oct 21, 2009 Choral/Vocal, Keyboard
Tuesday, October 27 at 7:30pm in Hart Recital Hall. This concert is part of the Johnson County Historical Society – Smithsonian Institution’s New Harmonies: American Roots Music event that runs throughout the month of October.
UCM professor of piano Mia Hynes will be joined by UCM faculty singers David Adams and Jacob Sentgeorge, as well as her pianist husband Jon Hynes for an evening of piano music and song celebrating classic tunes and genres of early 20th century America. If you haven’t heard how a pianist can tap-dance, if the blustery weather has you thinking you’d like to be “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, if you ever wondered what else there was to the Alcott family beyond that House on the Prairie or how the rest of the music to that United Airlines commercial really goes … then this concert is for you!
The concert is free and the public is invited to attend.
Festival of CHAMPIONS to feature premier bands from Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma!
Oct 9, 2009 1
31 of the finest marching band programs in the region, from Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma will go head to head during the annual Festival of CHAMPIONS at UCM, Saturday, October 24, 2009. Field Show competition begins at 9:44 am and concludes with a Marching Mules Exhibition performance at approximately 5:28 pm. 12 bands advance to the Finals Competition which begins at 7:14 pm. Running concurrently with the field show competition is an indoor Auxiliary and Drumline Competition (Multi-Purpose Building, 1:30 pm – 5:20 pm).
Nationally recognized adjudicators travel from as far away as Clemson University to provide evaluation of the visiting bands.
Proceeds from the Festival of Champions benefit scholarships for Wind/Percussion students at UCM, with an annual contribution made to the Shriners Burn Center Transportation Fund. The UCM Bands are proud to work with the following event sponsors and vendors:
CAMPUS
UCM University Relations
Sodexo Food Services (UCM)
UCM Athletics / Meeting and Conference Services
UCM Admissions (Matt Melvin)
UCM Student Union Bookstore
COMMUNITY
Houn’ Dawg Shrine Club
Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce
Warrensburg Band Aides
Local program advertisers
REGIONAL/NATIONAL
Meyer Music (Blue Springs, MO – Grand Champion Sponsor)
Jim Rubin Photography
Landers’ Visions (DVDs)
Pep Wear (Tees and Souvenirs)
Sabian Cymbals, Ltd.
Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets
Fruhauf Uniforms
MidwestMarching.com
Schedules, Ticket information, and other details are available at: www.sekelsky.com/FOC or by contacting the Festival Coordinator:
Dr. Michael Sekelsky
Sekelsky@ucmo.edu
Office: 660-543-4681