The Lord of the Rings Symphony is scheduled as part of the Sunday, April 29, Illinois State University Wind Symphony concert at 3 p.m. in the Bone Student Center Ballroom.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Accompanying the performance by the Wind Symphony, conducted by Stephen Steele, director of University Bands, will be a Power Point presentation featuring slides downloaded from the Internet and digitally remastered by Aaron Paolucci, sound designer in the Theatre department, and narration by Kim Pereira, associate professor of Theatre. Kim Pereira and Paolucci currently are collaborating on the production of a CD-Rom on Lord of the Rings. The composition, which was de Meij's first symphony, consists of five separate parts illustrating different episodes in the J.R.R. Tolkien book. The piece had its world premiere in Brussels in 1989. For it, de Meij won the Sudler International Wind Band Composition Competition 1989 as the best piece out of more than 140 entries from 27 countries.