Salisbury Pops Continues Spring Music Festival May 8

SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University’s annual Spring Music Festival, “American Adventures: Music That Inspired a Nation,” continues with a performance by the Salisbury Pops 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in Holloway Hall Audiorium.

Directed by Lee Knier, the program represents the Americas and Great Britain.

Selections include “Mambo” from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story; Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Sea Songs”; Leroy Anderson’s “The Girl I Left Behind,” Rossano Galante’s “Landscapes”; Earle Hagen’s “Harlem Nocturne”; and a George Gershwin medley.

In tribute to SU President Janet Dudley-Eshbach, a Latin American literature and Spanish-language scholar who has announced she will step down in June, the band also performs a medley of well-known Mexican folk songs, Viva Mexico! Drs. William Folger, co-chair of the Music, Theatre and Dance Department, and John Wesley Wright, tenor, also join SU music students and alumni in singing the University’s Alma Mater.

Sponsored by the Music, Theatre and Dance Department, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-548-5588 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.