FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE					April 14, 1995

Lawrence University Wind Ensemble Featured in Concert

	The Lawrence University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Robert
Levy, will present a concert Sunday, April 23 at 8 p.m. in the Lawrence
Memorial Chapel.  Cellist Janet Anthony will assist.  The event is free and
open to the public.  

	Included on the program are works by Benjamin Britten, Carl Maria von
Weber, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Allan Blank, John Huggler, and
Alec Wilder.  

	Janet Anthony, associate professor of music at Lawrence, has
concertized throughout the United States and Europe as a soloist, recitalist,
chamber musician, and orchestral player.  Last year, she was Visiting Professor
of Cello at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  During three years spent in
Vienna, Austria, Ms. Anthony toured with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the
Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Symphony, recorded with the Vienna Volksopern
Orchestra, and was the solo cellist for the Bach Society Orchestra.  Recently
in Spain, she was featured as a soloist on Spanish National Television and
National Radio broadcasts as well as the Festival Internacional de Music: XIV
Semana del Romanico Palencia, the Festivales de Aragon, and in Madrid, the
Veranos de la Villa.  Professor Anthony is a frequent performer on Wisconsin
Public Radio and has been heard across the country on National Public  Radio
broadcasts.

	The Lawrence University Wind Ensemble has performed with many
internationally known guest artists including Brian Bowman, euphonium; Jeffrey
Bradetich, string bass; Armando Ghitalla, trumpet; Sam Pilafian, tuba; Donald
Sinta, saxophone; Gordon Stout, marimba; Charles Vernon, bass trombone; and
conductors Karel Husa and John Paynter.  The Wind Ensemble has performed for
the College Band Directors National Association, American Bandmasters
Association, and Wisconsin State Music Educators Association conventions.  The
ensembleUs compact disc recording of  RAmerican Music for Winds,S featuring the
music of Gunther Schuller, Leslie Bassett, John Harbison, Donald Erb, and
Sydney Hodkinson, was released on the Mark Recordings label in 1994.


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