PITTSBURG, Kan. — The annual Pittsburg Competition of the Arts returns this week, with a sequence of free concert events scheduled in distinctive venues all through town. All occasions are open to the general public.
“This area has earned a status for musical expertise,” mentioned pageant director Raul Munguía, an affiliate professor of music at Pittsburg State College, in an announcement. “We’re wanting ahead to shining a highlight on that for per week, to be loved by residents and guests alike. There shall be just a little one thing for everybody.”
The schedule consists of:
• Summer season Kicks jazz live performance, 7 p.m. Monday, Bicknell Household Heart for the Arts, 1711 S. Homer. The Summer season Kicks Jazz Band, which historically units up on the garden, will carry out within the Bicknell Heart foyer below the route of Robert Kehle. The band consists of college, college students, alumni and group members who will carry out jazz requirements and some modern numbers.
• Pittsburg Brass Quintet, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Pittsburg Public Library, 308 N. Walnut. A quintet of college and group members will carry out a enjoyable and stress-free live performance of principally gentle classics and pop music.
• Clarinet and saxophone ensembles, 7 p.m. Tuesday, PSU’s McCray Corridor. This live performance, directed by Joanne Britz, will characteristic an in depth repertoire for clarinet and saxophone. Performing musicians embody former, present and potential PSU clarinet and saxophone college students of Britz in addition to a number of visitor artists.
• FOG (4 Previous Guys) Barbershop Quartet, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Signet Espresso Roasters, 109 N. Broadway. This acapella ensemble will carry out quite a lot of songs.
• Ensemble Iberica, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Bicknell Household Heart for the Arts. This Andean quartet consists of Amado Espinoza (Andean flutes, charango), Pedro Calderon (quena, guitar), Robert Castillo (bass, drums) and Brendan Culp (percussion). The live performance will showcase the musical traditions of the Andes mountains.
• Soprano Lydia Bechtel and pianist Isaac Hernandez, 2 p.m. Thursday, ArtForms Gallery, 620 N. Broadway. Bechtel, an tutorial professor of music at PSU, and Hernandez, a graduate pupil in piano efficiency from Mexico, will current an hour of Spanish artwork, track and piano works by Hispanic composers.
• Solo and chamber music, 7 p.m. Thursday, First United Methodist Church, 415 N. Pine. This live performance will characteristic performances by the low brass ensemble.
• Duo Capriccioso, 2 p.m. Friday, Books & Burrow Bookstore, 212 S. Broadway. This violin and flute ensemble options Raul and Denissa Munguia, who will discover music impressed by the written phrase in addition to books impressed by music. Viewers members shall be invited to take part within the live performance by submitting written questions that shall be chosen randomly and answered on stage by the performers.
• Summer season wind band, 7 p.m. Friday, Bicknell Household Heart for the Arts. Directed by Andrew Chybowski, this group consists of college, college students, alumni and group members who will carry out quite a lot of wind music.
• Fleeting Notions, 11 a.m. Saturday, Root Coffeehouse & Creperie, 402 N. Broadway, Suite A. This band of former PSU music college students Brian Amor, Kiel O’Neal, Fayne Speer and Evan Harries will play quite a lot of pop and jazz-inspired songs.
• “Charade,” 2 p.m. Saturday, Bicknell Household Heart for the Arts. The traditional film “Charade” shall be proven on the massive display screen within the Linda and Lee Scott Efficiency Corridor. This 1963 American romantic comedy thriller movie stars Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn and others.
• Invoice & Monica’s Wonderful Journey, 7 p.m. Saturday, Miners + Monroe, 214 S. Broadway. Fashioned in 2010, the five-piece group covers all number of ‘90s music.