Varsity Band Concert November 13

The Luther College Varsity Band will perform Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall on the campus of Luther College.

The concert is open to the public with no charge for admission.  

The Luther College Varsity Band is Luther’s touring band and is directed by Frederick Nyline.

The band will perform “A Festival Prelude,” “Loch Lomond,” “Americans We March,” “Undertow,” and “Bugler’s Holiday,” which will feature a 19-member trumpet section. 

Following the intermission, “Swanee” will be performed, composed by George Gershwin, featuring singers: senior Brad Compton and freshmen Will Hagan, Meghan Pedersen  and Kristina Tucker.

The Varsity Band will also perform “They Led My Lord Away,” conducted by Luther senior Ted Moore. The final three pieces of the concert are “Bricusse and Newley on Broadway,” “So’las Ane’” and “The Sousa Scramble.”

The Varsity Band, with approximately 100 student performers, appears at a variety of events throughout the year including Chapel services, Family Weekend events and the Dorian Band Festival and its own formal concert each semester. This ensemble is a normal step in the direction of eventual Wind and Percussion Ensemble or Concert Band membership.

Frederick Nyline, professor of music at Luther, conducts the Luther College Concert Band, Varsity Band, and the Wind and Percussion Ensemble. He also teaches advanced instrumental conducting. Before joining the Luther faculty in 1973, Nyline served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota as associate director of bands and director of the University Men’s Chorus.

Nyline has been a guest faculty member at the University of Illinois, and director of bands in the Austin, Minn., school system. He has served as guest conductor for the Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble in Tokyo, Japan five times for three months at a time during the past 14 years.