MOUNT CARMEL - The Mount Carmel Area Symphonic Band will present its annual spring concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in the junior-senior high school auditorium. The concert will feature, as guest soloist, Bloomsburg University horn professor Christiana Smith.
The symphonic band will perform a wide variety of music, some of which will include the famous "Strategic Air Command March," Claude T. Smith's "Anthem For Winds And Percussion," McBeth's "Chant And Jubilo," "Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Symphonic Portrait," and others.
The program will then feature Smith, who will perform the Saint-Saens' "Concertpiece (Morceau de Concert)." The guest soloist is a horn teacher and performer who resides in Selinsgrove. Her performance credits include the Altoona Symphony, Johnstown Symphony, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, and Williamsport Symphony Orchestra.
She earned a Bachelor of Music Performance and a master of arts in music theory and history from Penn State University where she studied with Lisa Bontrager. Her other teachers have included David Wakefield, Thomas Bacon, Jaime Thorne, Angela Cordell Bilger and Randall Faust. She is the horn instructor at Bloomsburg University and teaches private students from around the Susquehanna Valley.
The MCA Symphonic Band is under the direction of Bernard Stellar. Tickets can be purchased by calling the high school band room at 339-1500, extension 3139, from any band member or band parent, or at the door the night of the show.