A piece honoring the legacy of a Texas band director killed in a November car crash will have its regional premiere during an Wednesday West Texas A&M University band concert.
The WT Concert Band will perform “The Essence of Memory” by B.J. Brooks, WT professor of theory and composition, during its 6 p.m. Wednesday concert in Mary Moody Northen Recital Hall on WT’s Canyon campus.
It commemorates the life of Darin K. Johns, the Andrews High School band director who died in a Nov. 19 bus-pickup crash near Big Spring. Also killed in the wreck was Marc Elbert Boswell, an Andrews High math teacher and director of data information systems, who was driving the school bus.
The concert band also will perform Brooks’ “Willows of Winter,” conducted by student Shelby Easley-McPherson, a graduate music performance student from Odessa; “Galactic Empires” by David Gillingham; “Xerxes” by John Mackey, conducted by student Emily Henson, a graduate music performance student from Hereford; and the finale of Vasily Kalinnikov’s Symphony No. 1 in G Minor.
The concert band’s performance will be followed at 8 p.m. by the WT Symphonic Band.
Admission for both concerts is free. Call 806-651-2840.
