Spring Break
Student conductor debuts
Ashley Mefford/Staff Reporter
Issue date: 2/26/07 Section: News
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It was the last day that he would be a student conductor. Pacini, a junior music education major, was the first student conductor for the Wind Symphony.
The Concert Band and Wind Symphony both performed at the concert. Both groups performed five songs. The Wind Symphony's theme was "Dance Party."
Jeffrey Steiner conducted the Concert Band and Milton Allen conducted the Wind Symphony, with Peter Pacini as the student conductor. This is Steiner's second year at Eastern and Allen's first.
The Wind Symphony performs a show in the fall and spring while the Concert Band only performs in the spring.
Patrick Casey of Virginia Tech Symphonic Wind Ensemble was the guest conductor for the concert.
Casey conducted a song for each of the bands.
Casey helped the band students Friday through Sunday afternoon and was involved in a workshop with the students.
Casey was the guest clinician at the workshop. He spent a few days with both groups and was able to teach them through the workshop.
It was evident that both the EIU Wind Symphony and Concert Band take pride in what they do.
"This has been a very musical and responsible group and they're just great people," Allen said.
Although having a student conductor was a first for the Wind Symphony, the audition for the position was the final for one of Pacini's classes.
"I was selected based on my Conducting I final from last semester," Pacini said. "The piece I'm working on with the Wind Symphony is a band arrangement of Mozart's 'Ave Verum Corpus,' originally for four-part choir, strings, and organ. That was the final for Conducting I and the audition material as well."
Working with the Wind Symphony has been an experience that Pacini will never forget.
"The group has been very responsive and very supportive of what I'm trying to get across," he said. "It really feels like they're on the ride with me."
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