The Waldorf College Community Artist Series provides outstanding performances to the city of Forest City. Singers, musicians and other performers travel to Forest City from across the nation. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Waldorf College Information Center at 1-800-292-1903 or from the Forest City Chamber of Commerce.
Prices are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
Dorian Wind Quintet | Jazz Coalition | Sponsors
Since its formation at Tanglewood in 1961, the Dorian Wind Quintet has performed in the world’s most renowned concert halls, presenting repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to Pulitzer Prize-winning commissions. In addition to concertizing in 49 of the 50 United States, the Quintet has literally toured the world, playing in Canada, eighteen European tours and throughout the Middle East, India, Africa and Asia. In 1981, the Quintet made history as the first wind quintet to appear at Carnegie Hall. With a specific dedication to music education at all levels, the Dorian Wind Quintet has served as the resident ensemble for several institutions, including the Mannes College of Music, Brooklyn College and the State University of New York system. The group was in residence at England’s Dartington Hall and Newberry, the Tanglewood Music Festival and, for over ten years, at the Festival Institute at Round Top, Texas. The Dorian Wind Quintet has recorded on the Albany, CRI, New World, Serenus, Summit and Vox labels. Learn more at www.dorianwindquintet.org
Founded in March of 2005, the Jazz Coalition Big Band contains some of North Iowa’s finest jazz musicians. Performing from their regular home of Mulligan’s Bar and Grill in Mason City, the band has developed a large following of jazz aficionados as well as new fans exposed to jazz for the first time. With a performance library culled from the books of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Oliver Nelson, Thad Jones, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, and others, the band seeks to expose music lovers to the finest big band jazz available. A priority for the band is to provide live jazz performances accessible to area students, so that the rich history of jazz will continue.
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