Panola College Band to Perform First Concert of 2016

February 26, 2016 - The first concert of 2016 by the Instrumental Music department will be on March 8 at 7:00 PM in the Murphy-Payne Room of the M.P. Baker Library at Panola College.  It will be a performance of Chamber Music with the performers all being members of the Panola College Band.  Chamber Music is music performed by small and medium sized ensembles.  There will be woodwind, brass and percussion ensembles as well as a trio with clarinet, voice and piano. 

The compositions are from many styles and periods. There will be the ragtime sounds of Scott Joplin performed by a saxophone quartet and music of Mozart performed by a clarinet choir.  Guests will hear excerpts from the opera, Carmen and folk tunes from Appalachia.  Enjoy a tuba quartet playing jazz and a trombone quartet playing the music of Haydn.

“Come out for an enjoyable night of music presented by our fabulous student musicians here at Panola College,” says Dwaine Hubbard, Professor of Instrumental Music.