ASU Wind Ensemble and Orchestra perform Dec. 7
Groups explore works by David Maslanka

The Appalachian Wind Ensemble and the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra will perform works by composer David Maslanka Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.

The wind ensemble, conducted by graduate assistant conductor Kenneth Tysor, will perform “Mother Earth (A Fanfare).” John Stanley Ross will conduct “A Child’s Garden of Dreams.”

James Allen Anderson will conduct the symphony orchestra’s performance of the premiere of “A Child’s Garden of Dreams: Book 2.”

Maslanka attended the Oberlin College Conservatory, spent a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and did graduate work in composition at Michigan State University. He has taught at State University of New York at Geneseo, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Kingsborough College of the City University of New York. Maslanka now lives in Missoula, Mont.

Maslanka’s compositions for winds and percussion have become well known works for symphonic wind ensemble, chorus, marimba, and piano, winds and percussion.

For more information, call the Hayes School of Music at (828) 262-3020.