Victoria Mansfield of Mount Airy Performs in College Band Concert at McDaniel College

2015 Apr 21

Victoria Mansfield, a senior from Mount Airy, 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, May 8, 7 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md.

Under the direction of Linda Kirkpatrick, senior lecturer in music, the College Band Concert features musical selections from classical to pops. The band includes nearly 50 students, alumni and faculty members, as well as community musicians.

The concert program focuses on music from film, operas and Broadway musicals. Selections include music from "The Incredibles" written by Michael Giacchino and arranged by Jay Bocook, "Mountain Thyme" by Samuel R. Hazo, "Procession of the Nobles" written by Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov and arranged by Erik W.G. Leidzen (edited for Contemporary Bands by Van B. Ragsdale), "Shenandoah" by Frank Ticheli and soundtrack highlights from "Les Miserables" written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and arranged by Jay Bocook. Soundtrack highlights from "The Lost World" and "Four Symphonic Themes," both composed by John Williams and arranged by Paul Lavender, close out the performance.

For more information, call 410-857-2599. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu 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 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 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.