Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

INSIDE IOWA STATE
February 15, 2002

President's Concert is March 3 in Minneapolis

About 200 Iowa State music students head to downtown Minneapolis next month for a special performance at Orchestra Hall. The "President's Concert" at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 3, is intended to celebrate the arrival last summer of Gregory Geoffroy as the university's 14th president.

Joining the 70-voice Iowa State Singers, the 60-piece ISU Wind Ensemble and the 75-piece ISU Symphony Orchestra will be the music department's artist-in-residence, Simon Estes.

This is Iowa State's first trip to Orchestra Hall. The program will feature choral music spanning five centuries and instrumental music that includes Copland's Billy the Kid Suite and "Die Frist ist um" from Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

Concert tickets are $10 and may be purchased through the Orchestra Hall box office, 800-292-4141, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minn., 55403. An ISU alumni and friends reception will begin at 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, also at Orchestra Hall.

Tickets for the reception and concert are $18 and must be purchased through the LAS College, 213 Catt, 4-7742. Checks should be made to the ISU Alumni Association. Reception tickets will not be sold at Orchestra Hall.

More information on the concert is available on the music department's Web page, http://www.music.iastate.edu, or by calling 4-2080.