On Friday, November 24th, engineering students, professors, and faculty members, alike, congregated in the J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium at the Medical Sciences building for the inaugural Skule Music Concert. It was an entertaining and enjoyable evening featuring “some of the finest musical talent in Skule” with performances from several ensembles: the Skule Orchestra, The Brass Ring, the Skule Jazz Combo, and the Skule Stage Band.
The Skule Orchestra opened the concert with a good rendition of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro Overture, followed by an even better, and I might say at times triumphant, rendition of Faure’s Pavane, then Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 77 by Bela Bartòk, and finishing up with the third movement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. Established only just this year, the Skule Orchestra gave a commendable first performance though they still have a few kinks to work out. Continue reading
