Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble To Perform At Spring Concert

LIVERMORE, CA - From Las Positas College: The Las Positas College (LPC) Jazz Ensemble and Orchestra musicians will showcase their skills at the college's annual spring concert on Thursday, March 21.

LPC's Jazz Ensemble will play a variety of jazz tunes that were selected specifically for their crowd-pleasing effects.

"The Monday night Jazz Ensemble will be playing a nice variety of jazz, a little something for everyone," said LPC Faculty Member Cindy Browne Rosefield. "From great jazz classics like April in Paris, The Way You Look Tonight, Caravan and Angel Eyes to a rousing Count Basie blues, Alright, Okay, You Win, and the popular Beatles tune, Blackbird, featuring Adam Borden on trumpet."

In addition, the concert will feature Isabella Eaton making her LPC Jazz Ensemble debut singing Alright, Okay, You Win. Eaton, who recently received her associate degree in liberal studies from LPC, is studying Vocal Technique and Musicianship through Berklee College of Music's online programs.

As part of the orchestra's performance, directed by Diana Cefalo, LPC's bassoon quartet, "The Babbling, Bumbling, Band of Bassoons," will play the Sorcerer's Apprentice. The quartet, which performed for the first time together during LPC's fall concert, received praise for its rendition of Astor Piazzola's Libertango and is made up of LPC instructor Katie Brunner and students Helena Ellis do Amaral, Lora Pope and David Ferree.

The show, suitable for all ages, begins at 7 p.m. and is scheduled to last approximately one hour at the Las Positas College Main Stage at 3000 Campus Hill Drive in Livermore.

Advance tickets, $5-$10, can be purchased through http://siteline2.vendini.com/site/laspositascollege.edu/. Tickets on the day of the event will be $15 and can be purchased at the theater.

Visit http://laspositascollege.edu/music/instrumental-ensembles.php for more information.