Admission is free. Among the pieces on the program are works for marimba and orchestra, female vocal quartet, cello and trombone, voice and piano, and various chamber ensembles. Student composers represented on the program are Lay Kar Kho, Lily Barmor, Paul Dondero, Daniel Heila, Jared Burrows and Robb Mills. The Oregon Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Associate Professor Robert Ponto, will perform at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall. Ponto will be assisted on the program by graduate conducting students Christopher Mudd and Timothy Reynolds.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome.
James Williams, UO Bookstore manager and community activist, will join Mason on the program. Mason Williams emerged in the late 1960s as a strong force in television and music circles, but he is perhaps most widely known as a composer and recording artist. He has recorded more than a dozen albums, five on the Warner Brothers label. Repeat performances in a variety of locales over the next several years included three sold-out concerts in Eugene. In 1984, Williams released an album under the same title, featuring music from the concert program, on his own Skookum label.