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IU Kokomo helps organize Howard County Community Band
March 19, 2003 | |||||
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KOKOMO, Ind.—IU Kokomo’s Humanities department has helped launch the new Howard County Community Band. The musicians will perform on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11, at 2 p.m. in Havens Auditorium. The concert will include music by the IUK Singers and the IU Kokomo Handbell Choir. Practicing Wednesday nights at Kokomo High School (KHS), the band has drawn more than 30 participants, including four IU Kokomo students and two staff members, local residents ranging from high school juniors and seniors to Delphi Delco engineers. There are mother and daughter flutists, and three members of the Hill family on brass. Stephanie Hill, a biology/criminal justice major at IU Kokomo, plays alto sax. Her brother Michael, a KHS student, harmonizes on tenor sax, and their dad, Dan, is a trumpeter. Other IU Kokomo students in the band are Brad Glass of Windfall on French horn, Patrick Nelson of Kokomo on electric bass guitar, and Danielle Sexton of Kokomo on trumpet. Jeff Gegner, director of technical services for Havens Auditorium, is another trumpeter. Lecturer in Music Cindy Ison plays French horn and offers keyboard instruction to band members. Ison helped organize the band along with KHS Band Director Eric Thornbury, who conducts. As of mid-March, the band claimed at least two or three players on most brass and woodwind instruments and a three-person percussion section. The band is learning “a variety of music, ranging from very easy to very difficult,” Ison said. “At this time, we are trying to determine what level of talent we have. Some of our community people have played 30 years or more.” Musicians could earn two credit hours of Humanities electives through IU Kokomo for playing in the Community Band. While the band will be on hiatus during the summer, it could start again in that fall, along with the elective credit option, Ison said. “It is one of those course numbers that can be repeated, and a student could accumulate up to six hours in the band,” Ison said. Contact Ison at lison@iuk.edu for more information.
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