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Judith Lang Zaimont’s Solar Traveller Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra will be Premiered by the Indiana State University Wind Orchestra, Dr. John Boyd, Conductor, on Thursday, December 3 at 7:30 pm in Tilson Auditorium, N. 7^th and Chestnut Streets on the campus of Indiana State University in Terra Haute, Indiana. Piano soloist will be Ja-Sing Lin.

The composer has written about the new Concerto, “Inspired by the vastness, wonder, and beauty of sky and space, the Solar Traveller concerto is in three movements: Outward Bound, Nocturne (Lunar), and Ad astra per aspera. We encounter music as desolate and unfamiliar as a lunar landscape—largely expansive, as if in ‘stopped’ time. The name of the third movement, Latin for “To the stars through difficulties,” is reflected in cross-rhythms, chromatic clashes, and a prominent role for the percussion section. Across the three movements  both soloist and the ensemble experience the long-term compressive forces of space flight in  musical terms: The kernel of each movement is a progressively smaller musical interval, closing by movement from a third, to a second, down to pounding unisons in the final movement.”

The piece was commissioned in part by Kappa Kappa Psi, Lambda Lambda chapter and Indiana State University bands, as part of consortium that includes faculty members at the Peabody Institute, Eastman School of Music, Louisiana State University, Shepherd University, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern Mississippi.

Also on the program are works by Gustav Holst, Andrew Boysen, Jr, Alfred Reed and Roger Cichy. For more about the Indiana State University Wind Orchestra and its Conductor Dr. John Boyd, visit http://www.indstate.edu/band/windorchestra.htm.

The December 3 event is free and open to the public. For more concert information, call 812-237-2771 or visit http://www.indstate.edu/music/.

More information about Judith Zaimont, including sound clips of many of her compositions, is available at her website http://www.jzaimont.com/ and at http://www.myspace.com/judithlangzaimont.

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