Instructor: Alexandra Robin Price is $45.00. Register online at www.kcbx.net or call 805-781-2580.

Please join us for a gala Opening Reception from 6-9pm.

The program will also feature folkdances directed especially for this performance by San Luis Obispo dance instructors Saundra Sarrouf and Jenna Mitchell.

The 30-member ensemble is under the direction of Music Department faculty member Kenneth S. Habib, a composer and performer specializing in Middle East and American popular music. A suite of his original compositions will also be on the program.

Guest artists include several members of the Los Angeles-based Kan Zaman Ensemble, including director Wael Kakish on buzuq, Lana Khalaf on vocals and Moussa Nasser on qanun. Also on the program will be New York-based performer and teacher Bridget Robbins on nay.

Tickets are $10 for the public and $8 for seniors and students. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (805-756-2787).

A 10 percent discount is given to patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket office; a 15 percent discount is given on tickets to five or more events.

The concert is sponsored by the Cal Poly Music Department and College of Liberal Arts. For more information, call the Music Department at 805-756-2406.

WHAT: Winter Concert – “Fanfares and Flourishes”

WHEN: Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 1:00PM

WHERE: Atascadero Bible Church 6225 Atascadero Mall Street Atascadero, California

CHARGE: Free. Donations will be accepted for the Hospice Partners of the Central Coast

CONTACT: (805) 239 4644

This free concert given by the Atascadero Community Band will present exciting, familiar music by Strauss, Sousa, Wagner, Aaron Copland, Korsakov, Alfred Reed, John Williams, and others. Fanfares announcing the sunrise, the Olympic Games, and the Common Man will be balanced by the Procession of Nobles and the soaring On Eagle’s Wings. Come and be prepared to enjoy a wonderful performance. Handicapped parking is available.

Info: 528-4530 or http://stuartmasonmusic.com

Two instrumentalists will perform extraordinary works from the twentieth century. Scott Charvet will perform the first movement of Paul Creston’s "Concertino for Marimba," and Zachary Fisher, the first movement of Eric Ewazen’s "Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra."

Vocalists will perform works from a cross-section of genres: - Karlie Saenz will perform "Smanie implacabile" from Mozart’s opera, “Così fan tutte;” - Lisa Figel, Kellie Barragán and Brittney Zearfoss will sing “Three little maids from school” from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, “The Mikado;” - Emily Allyn will perform "Gimme, gimme” from the musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie;” and - Amy Beth Nickelson will sing “Art is Calling For Me (I Want to be a Prima Donna)” from "The Enchantress."

Music Department faculty member David Arrivée will conduct the program, which will also feature William Grant Still’s “Afro-American Symphony.” This work, a unique blend of blues and the symphonic tradition, continues the Cal Poly Symphony’s year-long exploration of a uniquely American style.

Tickets for the concert are $10 and $12 for the public, $8 and $10 for seniors and $6 for students. They are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.

To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (805-756-2787). Patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket office will receive a 10 percent discount; a 15 percent discount is given to those who buy tickets to five or more events.

The concert is sponsored by Cal Poly's Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program.

$10, no reservations required, bring own supplies.

***The event is SOLD OUT, but we encourage individuals to support the library by "voting" for their favorite stars! The “stars” will begin collecting votes before the event. For each $5 they receive by March 12, dancers receive one vote. On the night of the event, votes will increase to $10 each. People can cast their votes with "stars" or by making designated donations in the collection jar at the Atascadero Library. "Votes" are 100% tax deductible.

The annual concert will feature the university's 65-member Wind Ensemble and 60-member Wind Orchestra in an evening of original works written by one of the nation's most played composers of wind music.

An innovative young composer, Ticheli will conduct several of his works. As an added feature, he will also explain the inspiration and intricacies behind those compositions.

‘The piece ‘Vesuvius’ is likely to be an audience favorite,’ said William Johnson, Cal Poly director of bands. The musical description of the eruption that destroyed the city of Pompeii is an example of Ticheli’s ability to create drama in his composition.

Another popular work is “Blue Shades.” Using blues chords, big band licks and lots of syncopation, Ticheli fuses jazz and classical into a spine-tingling concert closer.

Other works include “Sanctuary,” ‘Nitro,’ ‘An American Elegy’ written after the Columbine High School tragedy, ‘Sun Dance,’ ‘Wild Nights’ and ‘Postcard.’

Tickets are $8 to $19 and are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (805-756-2787). Discounts are given to patrons who buy tickets to four or more Music Department events.

Cal Poly's Wind Ensemble will serve as the "Showcase Ensemble" for the Los Angeles International Music Festival to be held in the Walt Disney Concert Hall on June 22. This event is one in a series of fundraisers helping send the student band to this performance. For more information, go to http://windorchestra.calpoly.edu.

For more info, call Peggy at 441-5897.

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DISCOUNTED AND UNLIMITED RATES AVAILABLE. **One FREE Class** mention this AD!

For a schedule of classes visit our website at www.thestudioofperformingarts.com or come by the studio at 116 W. Branch St., next to Doc. Burnstein’s Ice Cream Lab, in the Village of Arroyo Grande (805) 473-0377. UPCOMING EVENTS AT SOPA:

-Little Shop of Horrors @ SOPA March 19, 20, 26 & 27 @7pm & March 20 & 27 @ 2pm. *TICKETS SOLD AT STUDIO OR DOOR*

$10, no reservations required, bring own supplies.