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Elyssa Sykes Bidwell
  • Communication
  • Class of 2014
  • Wappingers Falls, NY

Elyssa Sykes Bidwell of Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Performs in College Band Concert at McDaniel College

2012 Nov 19

Junior Elyssa Sykes Bidwell of Wappingers Falls, N.Y. performs in the College Band Concert at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md. The performance, which is free and open to the public, takes place Friday, December 7, 7 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall.

Under the direction of Linda Kirkpatrick, senior lecturer in music, the College Band Concert features musical selections from classical to pops. The band features more than 60 students, McDaniel alumni, and community musicians, as well as McDaniel music faculty members Mark Lortz and Jon Seligman.

Selections include "The Boys of Wexford" by Robert Dwyer Joyce and arranged by Sammy Nestico, "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson, "Farandole" (from "L'Arlesienne") by Georges Bizet, Symphonic Dance No. 3, "Fiesta" by Clifton Williams and "Sacred Heart" by Jay Bocook.

The concert also features three pieces conducted by McDaniel students, including Victor Herbert's "March of the Toys/Toyland," Andre Jutrus' "C'est Noel (It is Christmas)," and Franz Gruber's "Stille Nacht."

For more information, call 410-857-2599. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu/music for information about the college and the music department.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.