Carleton Symphony Band to Perform 19th Century Music

The Carleton College Symphony Band, directed by Ronald Rodman, will perform a concert titled “The Nineteenth-Century Band” on Friday, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The concert, featuring works from the 19th century, will include the Nocturne by Louis Spohr, as well as marches from the French Revolution and early marches by John Philip Sousa and Charles Ives. The band will also celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hector Berlioz with excerpts from his “Funeral and Triumphal” Symphony.

Rodman, director of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and professor of music theory at Carleton, received his Ph.D. in music theory from Indiana University. His research interests include Schenkerian analysis, musical semiotics, and music and the media, and he has contributed articles to the College Music Symposium, Journal of Music Theory and Indiana Theory Review, as well as to the book “Music and Cinema.”

For more information and disability accommodations, please call the Carleton music department at (507) 646-4347.