CONCORDIA — The Cloud County Community College music ensembles will present a fall concert on Oct. 20, at 3 p.m. in Cook Theatre, on the college’s Concordia campus. There is no admission to attend.
The Community Chorale will perform Stars, Songs & Faces, by Jonathan Adams; Siph Amandla, a South African freedom song; The Water is Wide, arranged by Luigi Zaninelli; and Praise! Praise! by George Fredric Handel.
The Concert Band will perform The Thunderer, by John Philip Sousa; For the Beauty of the Earth, arranged by Claude Smith; Marche Diabolique, by Brian Balmages; and From Every Mountainside, a salute to America, arranged by Michael Oare.
The Rolling Thunder Percussion Ensemble will perform Time Travel, by Cassidy Byars; and Paolisal’s March, by Raul Domenech Rubio.
The Jazz Band will perform Autumn Leaves, by Joseph Kosma and Johnny Mercer; Apple Corpse, by Al Cohn; Swing Street, arranged by John Berry; and So What, by Miles Davis.
All ensembles are under the direction of Chris Langsford, Cloud County’s new music instructor. Langsford received a bachelor’s of music in vocal music degree from Washburn University, and his master’s of music in choral conducting from Michigan State University.