Wind Ensemble

Richard Lackland Higgins, retired co-chairman of the music education department at Peabody Conservatory of Music and director of the Peabody Wind Ensemble, died Sunday of leukemia at his lifelong Gambrills home. He was 80.Mr. Higgins joined the faculty of the Mount Vernon Place conservatory in 1955 as a teacher of musical instrumental methods, and in 1969 was named co-chairman of the music education department. He retired in 1984.He taught music appreciation at Anne Arundel Community College from 1988 until he retired a second time in 1995.

Eleanor Roosevelt High School , 7601 Hanover Pkwy., in Greenbelt, will hold its fall concert on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. The event will feature the school's concert band, wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, and the men's and concert choirs. The band, orchestra and choir programs draw students from across northern Prince George's County, including Laurel. The school band and orchestra programs are holding their annual Florida citrus fruit sale fundraiser. Proceeds from the sale go to provide instruments and music for the programs.

Some wonderful family entertainment at bargain prices is available right here in our neighborhood. The Performing Arts Association of Linthicum has a history of bringing quality performers to the area, and this year is no exception.The 1994-1995 season includes six evenings of entertainment. All performances are at 8 p.m. on Saturdays in the North County High School auditorium in Ferndale.The first concert is free, as an introduction to the season. The U.S. Naval Academy wind ensemble will play on Oct. 8. This is the same popular group that plays in the summertime Concerts in the Park series in Linthicum.

A few years ago, when the Elkridge Youth Organization took a brief hiatus from sponsoring a travel softball team, a determined group of young ladies decided to stick together in a sport they love and joined the neighboring Catonsville Chaos softball organization. Under the coaching team of Elkridge resident Bob Bahrijczuk and Catonsville resident Chris Rubeling , this team is making history! Six of the team members are from Elkridge and all started playing together in the EYO. They are: Jamie Bahrijczuk, Isa Carunungan, Jordan Ciraolo, Rachel Oliver, Katelyn Penix and Stephanie Yarrish.

Eleanor Roosevelt High School , 7601 Hanover Pkwy., in Greenbelt, will hold its fall concert on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. The event will feature the school's concert band, wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, and the men's and concert choirs. The band, orchestra and choir programs draw students from across northern Prince George's County, including Laurel. The school band and orchestra programs are holding their annual Florida citrus fruit sale fundraiser. Proceeds from the sale go to provide instruments and music for the programs.

Wind ensemble set to perform at church The Anderson University Wind Ensemble is to perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Celebration Church, 6080 Foreland Garth, Columbia, as part of its spring tour through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Indiana, the wind ensemble's home state. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free. An offering will be taken. The ensemble, which participates in the Anderson University student summer service program, has performed at churches, schools and community events, and on three European tours.

While the band tuned up in the background, four Harlem Park Elementary students fidgeted in their auditorium's wooden seats, punching each others' shoulders, arguing about whose legs were fastest."

NED ROGERS, a Dorsey relative, is in the midst of restoring the Dorsey home, the Brick House on U.S. 40.Rogers has completed the mountain of paperwork to have the home placed on the National Register of Historic Places and is restoring the home for his residence.Previously owned by the now-deceased Lassotovitch family, the house was distinguished by its large grape arbor."My motivation is to show people that historical restoration can be done and that it can be profitable," Rogers said of his plan to retain several acres, using the profits from the sale of additional land for the expense of rebuilding the property.

The U.S. Naval Academy Band wind ensemble will appear in the first concert of the season for the Performing Arts Association of Linthicum at 8 p.m. Saturday at the North County High School auditorium.This concert is free and open to the public and is provided to the community as an introduction to the association's 1994-1995 concert season.Under the direction of Cmdr. Thomas E. Metcalf, the wind ensemble performs all styles of music from traditional band fare to current popular hits. Band programs often include arrangements written exclusively for the wind ensemble by the band's staff arrangers.

The combined feature of the Naval Academy Wind Ensemble, the Navy's oldest continuing music organization, and the Great American Picnic in the Park will make for a perfect family outing Sunday.Hot dogs, watermelon and cold drinks will be served by the Linthicum-Shipley Improvement Association from 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. in Linthicum Park. This will be followed at 6 p.m. by the last performance in the summer Concert in the Park series sponsored by the Woman's Club of Linthicum Heights.The 50-member wind ensemble, under the direction of Cmdr.

Wind ensemble set to perform at church The Anderson University Wind Ensemble is to perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Celebration Church, 6080 Foreland Garth, Columbia, as part of its spring tour through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Indiana, the wind ensemble's home state. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free. An offering will be taken. The ensemble, which participates in the Anderson University student summer service program, has performed at churches, schools and community events, and on three European tours.

Frederick Fennell, 90, a classical music conductor and teacher acclaimed for creating an innovative wind ensemble at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., died Tuesday at his home in Siesta Key, Fla. While bedridden with hepatitis for six weeks in 1952, Mr. Fennell dreamed up the notion of redefining the typical wind-and-brass band by whittling down its numbers and emphasizing its musical dexterity and virtuosity. His Eastman Wind Ensemble, signed by Mercury Records in the 1950s, went on to record 22 albums.

At age 15, children are smack-dab in the middle of their teen-age years. What better moment for a parent to step back, appraise them and utter those time-honored words, "My, how you've grown." The same goes for orchestras, as we'll see this weekend when Anne Arundel County's very own Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra takes center stage at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts for a concert commemorating the 15th birthday of the ensemble that's become one of Maryland's foremost musical organizations for the young.

Richard Lackland Higgins, retired co-chairman of the music education department at Peabody Conservatory of Music and director of the Peabody Wind Ensemble, died Sunday of leukemia at his lifelong Gambrills home. He was 80.Mr. Higgins joined the faculty of the Mount Vernon Place conservatory in 1955 as a teacher of musical instrumental methods, and in 1969 was named co-chairman of the music education department. He retired in 1984.He taught music appreciation at Anne Arundel Community College from 1988 until he retired a second time in 1995.

While the band tuned up in the background, four Harlem Park Elementary students fidgeted in their auditorium's wooden seats, punching each others' shoulders, arguing about whose legs were fastest."

An article in yesterday's editions of The Sun about Glenwood Middle School's book drive misspelled the name of seventh-grader Kim Sandifer, 12.The Sun regrets the error.While the band tuned up in the background, four Harlem Park Elementary students fidgeted in their auditorium's wooden seats, punching each other's shoulders, arguing about whose legs were fastest."I'm the quickest," said fifth-grader Jamel Deans, 10, his dimpled face bursting into a grin. "I'll get there first."Fourth-grader Charles Wilson mocked his classmate's boasting, for his homeroom is just across the hall from the finish line -- the school's sparse library.

NEW YORK - About 2,000 admirers of the music of Morton Gould filled Carnegie Hall's parquet and the lower two balconies yesterday afternoon to pay tribute to this eclectic composer of symphonic works, Broadway musicals, ballets and film scores.The program, called "A Celebration of Morton Gould," was presented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of which Gould had been president for eight years. Gould died Feb. 21 at age 82.Gould's successor, Marilyn Bergman, presided over the tribute, a nearly two-hour program that included performances that touched on the enormous range of styles Gould's music encompassed, as well as recollections by friends and colleagues, and videotape of Gould himself.

A few years ago, when the Elkridge Youth Organization took a brief hiatus from sponsoring a travel softball team, a determined group of young ladies decided to stick together in a sport they love and joined the neighboring Catonsville Chaos softball organization. Under the coaching team of Elkridge resident Bob Bahrijczuk and Catonsville resident Chris Rubeling , this team is making history! Six of the team members are from Elkridge and all started playing together in the EYO. They are: Jamie Bahrijczuk, Isa Carunungan, Jordan Ciraolo, Rachel Oliver, Katelyn Penix and Stephanie Yarrish.

NED ROGERS, a Dorsey relative, is in the midst of restoring the Dorsey home, the Brick House on U.S. 40.Rogers has completed the mountain of paperwork to have the home placed on the National Register of Historic Places and is restoring the home for his residence.Previously owned by the now-deceased Lassotovitch family, the house was distinguished by its large grape arbor."My motivation is to show people that historical restoration can be done and that it can be profitable," Rogers said of his plan to retain several acres, using the profits from the sale of additional land for the expense of rebuilding the property.

NEW YORK - About 2,000 admirers of the music of Morton Gould filled Carnegie Hall's parquet and the lower two balconies yesterday afternoon to pay tribute to this eclectic composer of symphonic works, Broadway musicals, ballets and film scores.The program, called "A Celebration of Morton Gould," was presented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of which Gould had been president for eight years. Gould died Feb. 21 at age 82.Gould's successor, Marilyn Bergman, presided over the tribute, a nearly two-hour program that included performances that touched on the enormous range of styles Gould's music encompassed, as well as recollections by friends and colleagues, and videotape of Gould himself.