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SOUTHEAST ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR 2001 HOMECOMING MAN AND WOMAN OF THE YEAR

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - Southeast Missouri State University has announced the finalists for 2001 Man and Woman of the Year, a title that will be awarded during the Homecoming 2001 festivities.

The finalists for 2001 Man of the Year are James Backer of Imperial, Mo., Paul Dobbins of Cape Girardeau, Thomas Foley of St. Louis, Mo., Travis Partney of Hillsboro, Mo., and Kevin Schmieder of Jerseyville, Ill. The finalists for 2001 Woman of the Year are Sarah Berkbigler of Perryville, Mo., Kimberly Fallert of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., Erin Hamm of Benton, Mo., Kelly Lambing of St. Louis and Merideth McDowell of Sikeston, Mo.

Candidates must be members of a student organization or of a varsity athletic team from which they can be nominated. Each student organization and varsity athletic team can nominate one male and one female candidate. Candidates must be undergraduates who have been enrolled at least two semesters enrollment at Southeast and are required to have a minimum 2.5 cumulative grade point average, 60 completed credit hours and are involved in two student organizations or athletic teams. After nomination, candidates are chosen through an interview process in which they meet with the previous Man and Woman of the Year, faculty, staff, community leaders and the 2001 selection committee co-chairs. Interviews are designed to allow each candidate to demonstrate poise, personality, involvement, abilities and fluency. From the group of candidates, five men and five women are chosen as finalists.

The purpose of a Homecoming Man of the Year and a Homecoming Woman of the Year is designed to enhance school spirit, unify student groups, and recognize one male and one female student for their service to the university community and for their achievement in student activities.

Campus wide elections will be held on Monday, Oct. 15, and Tuesday, Oct. 16, to determine the 2001 Man of the Year and his first runner-up, and the 2001 Woman of the Year and her first runner-up. The Homecoming Court will be presented at half-time of the Homecoming Football Game on Saturday, Oct. 20, which begins at 1 p.m. The Homecoming Man of the Year and Woman of the Year, and their first runners-up will be announced at this time. They will reign until the Half-Time Coronation at the 2002 Homecoming Football Game.

Finalists' Biographies:

James Backer is sponsored by the Interfraternity Council (IFC). He is currently an IFC delegate and has held office as vice president of education. He is a senior majoring in finance. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta and has received the following awards: Delta Delta Delta Man of the Year, Officer of the Year for Phi Delta Theta and Junior of the Year for Phi Delta Theta.

Paul Dobbins is sponsored by Emerging Leaders. He currently holds office as chairperson and also has been a peer facilitator. He is a senior majoring in management information systems. Dobbins is a member of Student Government, Presidential Ambassadors and Sigma Nu. His awards include Regent's Scholarship, Missouri Bright Flight Scholarship, Dean's List and Commander's Award of Excellence.

Tom Foley is sponsored by Sigma Phi Epsilon. He is a junior majoring in marketing. He serves on the Greek Life Strategic Planning Committee and is a member of Order of Omega, Delta Epsilon Chi and Presidential Ambassadors. His honors include Finalist for Greek Week Man of the Year, Sigma Phi Epsilon Junior of the Year and Southeast Missouri State University State Outstanding Greek Junior

Travis Partney is sponsored by Sigma Nu. He is a senior majoring in philosophy and speech communication. He is a captain of the Debate Team, an Interfraternity Council Delegate and is a member of Student Government, Funding Board and Emerging Leaders. His honors include various debate championships, Dean's List honor student and Sigma Nu Leadership Award.

Kevin Schmieder is sponsored by Order of Omega. He currently holds office as Treasurer. He is a senior majoring in international business. His involvement includes Interfraternity Council vice president of recruitment and retention, Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter president and Beta Gamma Sigma business honors fraternity. His honors include Chapter President of the Year and Sigma Phi Epsilon Man of the Year.

Sarah Berkbigler is sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega. She has held office as secretary, co-pledge trainer and pledge class trainer. She is a senior majoring in economics. Her involvement includes Accounting and Finance Club, Phi Beta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi and Management Club. Her honors include Tom & Betty Fulton Scholarship, Outstanding Junior Student, Dean's List, Southeast Governor's Scholar and Missouri Bright Flight Scholarship.

Kimberly Fallert is sponsored by Alpha Xi Delta. She has held office as president, programs vice president and national convention delegate. She is a senior majoring in elementary education. Her involvement includes historian for Order of Omega, Rho Lambda, Greek Week Steering Committee, Kappa Delta Pi, and secretary for Students Against Destructive Decisions and Student Activities Council. Her honors include Alpha Xi Delta Woman of the Year, Dean's List and Missouri Leadership Award.

Erin Hamm is sponsored by Student Government. She currently holds office as treasurer. She is a senior majoring in mass communications with an emphasis in public relations. Her involvement includes Alpha Delta Pi, Presidential Ambassadors, Public Relations Student Society of America, College Republicans and Collegians for Life. Her honors include Dean's List for the College of Liberal Arts and the National Dean's List.

Kelly Lambing is sponsored by Order of Omega. She is a senior majoring in accounting. Her involvement includes Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Greek Week Steering Committee, Accounting and Finance Club and SEMO Grotto Club. Her honors include President's Scholarship, DaimlerChrysler Scholarship, Missouri Leadership Award, Dean's List and Alpha Chi Omega's "Unsung Heroine" Award.

Merideth McDowell is sponsored by Alpha Chi Omega. She currently holds office as the vice president of education. She is a junior majoring in mass communications. Her involvement includes Public Relations Student Society of America, Greeks Advocating Mature Management of Alcohol, columnist and reporter for the Capaha Arrow and sweetheart of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Her honors include Individual Community Service Award, Dean's List, Leadership Award, Elks Club Scholar, American Legion Post #114 Scholar and the Jackson chapter of American Business Women's Association Scholar.

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SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE TO OPEN SEASON WITH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF SYMPHONY

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - The Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will open the concert season Oct. 25 with several "firsts."

The concert will include the official release of the first every commercially produced compact disk to feature a Southeast group, as well as the American Premiere of a recently discovered symphony for wind orchestra.

Symphonic Wind Ensemble "LIVE," a professionally recorded, mastered and produced compact disk, will be released at the concert. This disk features live performances presented during the 1997-1999 concert seasons by the Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

Another "first" at this concert will be the first American performance of Sinfonie Nr. 3, die Slavische" by Russian composer Boris Koschevnikov. This tuneful and spirited four movement work was composed during the 1930s for wind orchestra. The composer's works encompass a wide variety of genres including chamber music, theatre and wind orchestra, for which he composed three symphonies, two overtures, some fantasies and many marches. His third symphony has been described as "joyous and cheerful" in nature.

The concert will open with a familiar "classic" from the repertoire for wind band, Ralph Vaughan Williams' "English Folk Song Suite." Composed in 1923 for British military bands, the suite contains three movements -- two marches and an intermezzo -- all based upon English folk songs.

Another treatment of folk music, this time American, will be presented in a new work by University of Texas at Austin composer Donald Grantham. The composer selected tunes from the 1835 William "Singin' Billy" Walker's songbook entitled Southern Harmony. This songbook was extremely popular, selling more than 600,000 copies before the Civil War, and was commonly stocked "along with groceries and tobacco" in general stores across the American frontier.

Grantham's work is in four movements and presents some of the nation's early folk music in a colorful and yet characteristic manner. The piece was commissioned in 1998 by the Southern Conference of Band Directors.

Tyson Wunderlich, junior piano performance major from Altenburg, Mo., will appear as guest conductor on Vincent Persichetti's "Serenade for 10 Instruments." Persichetti was a student and about the same age as Wunderlich when he composed this piece, his "Opus 1." The concert fare is rounded out with Belgian composer, Pieter Leemans' "March of the Belgian Paratroops," which is guaranteed to send you home "whistling a happy tune."

The numerous invitations the Southeast Symphonic Wind Ensemble has received to perform at state and regional conferences are indicative of the respect that this group has received both for quality of performance and innovative programming. The group has presented seven world premieres and a dozen American premieres of works for the contemporary wind band and has performed for both the Missouri Music Educators and the College Band Directors National Association.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Academic Auditorium on the Southeast campus. Parking will be available in lots 18 and TCD just across from the University Center. Handicapped parking will be available, with street-level elevator access.

General admission is $6. Tickets for senior citizens are $5. Student tickets are $4. University faculty, staff and students will be admitted free with a valid I.D.

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ENJOY "AN EVENING WITH GEORGE GERSHWIN" NOV. 1

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - Renowned British pianist Jack Gibbons will perform an all-Gershwin solo concert Nov. 1 at the Harry L. Crisp Bootheel Education Center in Malden, Mo.

Gibbons' "An Evening with George Gershwin" performance will be held in the auditorium of the Bootheel Youth Museum at 8 p.m. The performance will include "Rhapsody in Blue," "An American in Paris," "I Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me" and many more Gershwin favorites.

George Gershwin is one of the best-known composers from the 1920s and 1930s. With the help of his brother, Gershwin composed 22 musical comedies and many show-tune improvisations before his death. Jack Gibbons has taken several of these compositions and began performing all-Gershwin concerts.

"Jack Gibbons is able to reproduce Gershwin as Gershwin performed, in a remarkable recreation of Gershwin's unique keyboard style. Hearing Jack Gibbons perform is like being at a Gershwin party, in a sense like being with Gershwin," says Edward Joablonski, a Gershwin biographer.

Public performer from the age of 10, and winner at 20 of the Newport International Piano Competition, Jack Gibbons has performed to standing ovations in leading concert halls around the world. He performs regularly in New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Albert Hall.

Jack Gibbons has only been playing Gershwin since 1990, after discovering his music by accident. A decade later, Gibbons schedule is devoted almost entirely to Gershwin.

In addition to his concert performance at the Bootheel Education Center, Gibbons will perform at Southeast Missouri State University's main campus in Cape Girardeau, Mo., visit Southeast's music class UI310 American Musical Experience and hold a master class in piano at Southeast.

Tickets for the Nov. 1 concert are free and can be picked up at the Bootheel Education Center in Malden; any Overturf Drugstore in Malden, Bernie or Dexter; the Kennett Area Higher Education Center; or MJ's Jewelry and Accessories in Dexter.

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SYMPHONY SUBSCRIPTION SERIES TICKETS NOW ON SALE

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - Tickets for the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra Concert Series are now on sale at the Performing Arts Box Office at Southeast Missouri State University.

This concert series, which is co-sponsored by Commerce Bank and Southeast Missouri State University, features the University's Symphonic Orchestra in a series of four full symphony orchestra concerts, plus one chamber orchestra performance in February. Sara Edgerton serves as conductor and artistic director of the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra.

The concert series is expected to showcase the symphonic masterworks of yesterday and today. From the haunting sounds of music of the British Isles to the rousing themes from our own shores, the Southeast Symphony Orchestra will journey through time and space on a symphonic odyssey with exciting concerts planned throughout the coming academic year. A portion of the proceeds from these concerts will help support the Southeast Missouri School of the Visual and Performing Arts.

Commerce Bank of Cape Girardeau recently made a gift of $5,000 to the University to underwrite the Southeast Missouri Symphony Series and boost the efforts of the Symphony Orchestra as Southeast lays the groundwork in developing a first-rate School of Visual and Performing Arts.

The funds from Commerce, along with matching funds from the University and other gifts to the institution, will be used to increase scholarships by $25,000 for talented students in the area of strings, launch a symphony concert series and expand on the current University Symphony with talented musicians from the surrounding area to create the renamed "Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra."

"This is a real fortuitous combination of forces that will enable Southeast Missouri State to inaugurate, what, I believe, will become one of the finest Schools of Visual and Performing Arts in the nation," said Kenneth W. Dobbins, president of Southeast Missouri State University. "The expansion of our University Orchestra and our music scholarship program is an investment in cultural activities for our entire region. On behalf of Southeast Missouri State University, our students, alumni and friends, I would like to extend our sincere appreciation to Commerce Bank for their generosity in elevating the opportunities four our orchestra to an entirely new level."

Roger Tolliver, Commerce Community Bank president, added, "The University is very important to the community and to the area, with the impact that it makes on the economy, education and the culture of the region. The music program at Southeast has been a good one. Commerce Bank hopes, that by providing these scholarships, we will be able to enhance the long-term reputation of the Department of Music and provide additional cultural entertainment in this area," he said. "We are looking forward to an excellent concert season."

Programs on the 2001-2002 Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra Series include the Oct. 23 "Symphonic Spectacular," featuring local violin virtuoso Liesl Schoenberger as soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. This concert will begin with two European classics: the Peer Gynt Suite by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and the Slavonic Dances by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak.

Season ticket holders will be invited to a President's Reception at the University Museum following the opening concert on Oct. 23. The deadline to order tickets for the subscription series is Oct. 10. Subscription series ticket-holders are given priority seating in Academic Hall (Balcony or Front Main-Level seating); priority seating in Old St. Vincent's Church; guaranteed admission to all concerts; 10 percent savings over tickets purchased individually; and the convenience of having tickets mailed to your home address.

Subscription series tickets for the five events range from $18 to $45. Admission to individual events ranges from $4 to $10. To subscribe to the series, please call the Performing Arts Box Office at (573) 651-2265.

The Symphony Orchestra Series will continue Nov. 27, when the Symphony presents "Festive Favorites" as the Symphony combines with the Choral Union and University Choir in a performance of Vivaldi's choral masterpiece, "Gloria." The program will include a second interpretation of the "Gloria" by Randol Alan Bass with a contemporary flair. The Symphony will open the program with Bizet's beloved L'Arlesienne Suite.

Spring 2002 concerts will feature symphonic masterpieces with American and British themes, an intimate chamber orchestra concert in the acoustically perfect Old St. Vincent's Church, and the ever-popular collaboration with the Choral Union for the end-of-semester choral/orchestral program.

On Feb. 16, the Southeast Chamber Orchestra will perform a delightful sampling of works from the Baroque period to today. The program, titled "Inspirations from the Baroque," will open with Bach's celebrated Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, featuring Southeast's Gary Miller on the spell-binding solo part for harpsichord. This concert also will present two contemporary works by composers deeply indebted to Bach: the melodious Song of the Birds by legendary cellist Pablo Casals and the dance-like Simple Symphony by British composer Benjamin Britten

On March 12, the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra will present an "Americana Concert with Student Soloists." This concert will feature American composers whose music celebrates this great nation, from Copland's inspired Outdoor Overture to the jazzy Mississippi Suite by Grofé depicting the sights and sounds of our own region. Outstanding student winners of the Southeast Symphony Student Soloist's Competition, also will be showcased in this exciting concert.

The 2001-2002 Symphony Concert Series will come to a close April 30 with a concert titled "From the British Isles." Southeast's Choral Union and University Choir again will team up with the Southeast Symphony Orchestra in this concert straight from the English shores. Three fabulous English composers will be heard in this program. William Walton's energetic Spitfire Prelude and Fugue will open the concert, followed by the enigmatic and dreamy Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams, featuring Southeast's own Ronald François as violin soloist. John Rutter's signature choral work, the Requiem, will conclude this concert.

All concerts will take place in Academic Auditorium except for the Feb. 16 concert, which will take place in Old St. Vincent's Church.

For more information, contact the Department of Music at (573) 651-2141.

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RIVER CAMPUS BOARD OF MANAGERS TO MEET OCT. 12

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - The River Campus Board of Managers is scheduled to meet at noon Oct. 12 on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University.

The meeting will be held in Dempster Hall Room 102.

City representatives on the Board are Ruth Knote, Dennis Vollink and Jerry Ford. University representatives are Dr. Pauline Fox, vice president for administration and enrollment management; Thomas Swayne Byrd, architect from Charleston, Mo.; and Jerrianne Wyman, Southeast alumna and member of the Old Town Cape Committee.

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ENJOY "AN EVENING WITH GEORGE GERSHWIN" NOV. 2

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - Renowned British pianist Jack Gibbons will perform an all-Gershwin solo concert at Southeast Missouri State University Nov. 2.

Gibbons' "An Evening with George Gershwin" performance will be held in Academic Auditorium at 8 p.m. The performance will include "Rhapsody in Blue," "An American in Paris," "I Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me" and many more Gershwin favorites.

George Gershwin is one of the best-known composers from the 1920s and 1930s. With the help of his brother, Gershwin composed 22 musical comedies and many show-tune improvisations before his death. Jack Gibbons has taken several of these compositions and began performing all-Gershwin concerts.

"Jack Gibbons is able to reproduce Gershwin as Gershwin performed, in a remarkable recreation of Gershwin's unique keyboard style. Hearing Jack Gibbons perform is like being at a Gershwin party, in a sense like being with Gershwin," says Edward Joablonski, a Gershwin biographer.

Public performer from the age of 10, and winner at 20 of the Newport International Piano Competition, Jack Gibbons has performed to standing ovations in leading concert halls around the world. He performs regularly in New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Albert Hall.

Jack Gibbons has only been playing Gershwin since 1990, after discovering his music by accident. A decade later, Gibbons schedule is devoted almost entirely to Gershwin.

In addition to his concert performance at Southeast, Gibbons will hold a master class in piano, visit Southeast's music class UI310 American Musical Experience and perform at the Bootheel Education Center in Malden, Mo.

Tickets for the Nov. 2 concert are $10 for the general public and $5 for Southeast faculty, staff and students and senior citizens. Tickets can be purchased at the door the evening of the performance.

To get a taste of Gershwin's music, KRCU 90.9 FM will be playing pieces of Gershwin's music during October on its "Broadway Melodies" program to celebrate Gershwin Month. "Broadway Melodies" airs every Monday evening at 7 p.m.

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SOUTHEAST HOSTING PERFORMANCE ARTIST GUY STRAUSS

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - Southeast Missouri State University will host visiting guest artist Guy Strauss, artistic director of the Payomet Performing Arts Center in North Truro, Mass., who will perform a one-person staged reading entitled "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," Oct. 19.

The program is free and open to University students, faculty, staff and community members. It will be held at 7 p.m. on the Southeast campus in the Parker Dance Studio, Room 210. Seating will be limited to 100 people, so please arrive early.

Based on selected poetry, short stories, essays and interviews by renowned writers Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher, Strauss has toured this production since the mid-1990s across Cape Cod and the New England area, performing in public schools, colleges, community centers, and many other venues. This presentation is drawn solely from the works and words of Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher, especially Conversations with Raymond Carver, edited by Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L. Stull (University of Mississippi Press), Remembering Ray, edited by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll (Capra Press), and Indiana Review, Vol. 19, No. 1.

Strauss has worked in theatre, film, television, commercials, corporate films, print, voice-overs (in French as well as English), and has produced and directed his own "Theatre of the Air" radio show (loosely based on the famous Orson Welles' program of the same name) on WOMR-FM.

Strauss will be available after the Oct. 19 presentation at Southeast for a question and answer/discussion period. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Dr. Roseanna Whitlow at (573) 986-6861 or by e-mail at rwhitlow@semo.edu, or contact Dr. Marc Strauss at (573) 661-5157 or by e-mail at mstrauss@semo.edu.

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SYMPOSIUM ON TERRORISM SCHEDULED FOR OCT. 10 AT SOUTHEAST
The American Response: Legal, Political, and Economic Implications of Terrorism

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - A second in a series of symposiums on "Terrorism in the 21st Century," in which the legal, political and economic implications of terrorism will be discussed, is planned for Oct. 10 at Southeast Missouri State University.

The event, which is open to the public, is scheduled for noon to 1:15 p.m. in Dempster Auditorium of Crisp Hall.

The symposium, titled "The American Response: Legal, Political and Economic Implications of Terrorism," will consist of three presentations. "Taking the Gloves Off Again: The National Security Bureaucracy" will be given by Dr. Joel Rhodes, assistant professor of history. Dr. Brian Smentkowski, associate professor of political science, will present "Freedom v. Security: Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis." Dr. Willie Redmond, assistant professor of economics, will speak on "War and Recession: Domestic Economic Implications."

Each presentation is scheduled to last 12 minutes, with the remaining time dedicated to questions and answers from the audience.

Dr. Steve Swindle of the Department of Political Science will moderate the symposium.

For more information, call (573) 651-2183 or go to http://www4.semo.edu/polisci/events.html.

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75TH JUBILEE ANNIVERSARY OF NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL TOPIC OF SUNDAY 'PUBLIC FORUM' PROGRAM

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - The 75th Jubilee Anniversary of Notre Dame High School will be the topic of the Oct. 7 "Public Forum" program that will air at 5:30 a.m. on WDKA-49.

Guest will be Brother David Anthony, principal of Notre Dame High School.

"Public Forum" is a program designed to deal with issues affecting the local region. Dr. Tom Harte, Southeast Missouri State University professor emeritus of speech communications and theatre; Dr. Peter Bergerson, chair of the Southeast Department of Political Science; and Dr. J. Christopher Schnell, Southeast professor of history, will host the program.

In addition, the show will also air on Tuesday, Oct. 9 and Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. on Channel 5.

The program is produced by the Southeast Missouri State University Student Chapter of the Media Communications Association.

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SOUTHEAST SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE RELEASES FIRST COMPACT DISC

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Oct. 5, 2001 - The Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will release "Live," a professionally recorded, mastered and produced compact disk featuring live music performances, this October.

This first ever commercially produced disk to feature a Southeast group, includes live performances presented during the 1997-1999 concert seasons by the Southeast Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

During the 1999-2000 school year, the Southeast Symphonic Wind Ensemble also recorded "Music that Works" for JPM Music Publications. This disk has been distributed nationwide to instrumental music teachers. In addition, the Southeast ensemble has been featured on two recent recordings produced by Educational Programs Publications.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble has earned an enviable reputation for innovative programming and has distinguished itself during the past two decades with a variety of World Premieres, American Premieres and commissioned works. The ensemble has also performed on several occasions for the Missouri Music Educators Association and the College Band Directors National Association.

One of the highlights of the new compact disk is Pulitzer prize winning composer Karel Husa, conducting his own work.

"This is an excellent recording, and it is amazing how wonderful the Wind Ensemble is. Many large schools cannot match this music making," said Husa.

In addition to this feature, one of America's most innovative composers, Percy Grainger, is represented by his "Children's March." Also a tribute to America's musical art form of jazz is "enthusiastically and artistically performed by the Southeast ensemble in their version of Frank Ticheli's "Blue Shades." Other musical selections on the compact disk are two suites of English folk songs by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as two American marches, including our nation's official march, John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever."

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble "Live," disk will be officially released at the opening concert of the season in Academic Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 25. Disks are available for $12, including postage and handling. To order, call the Department of Music at (573) 652-2141 or Dr. Robert Gifford at (573) 651-2140. The compact disk also is available for purchase on campus at the Southeast Bookstore or downtown at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, 119 Independence.

For more information, contact Dr. Robert Gifford at (573) 651-2140.

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MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT: Checks to support disaster relief will be presented to local representatives of the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.

WHO: Sean Simon, president of the Sigma Nu Coins for Kids Foundation, will make the presentation.

On hand to accept the disaster relief funds will be:

· Mary Burton, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Chapter of the American Red Cross

· Major Robert M. Gauthier, local chapter of the Salvation Army

WHEN: 9 a.m., Monday, Oct. 8

WHERE: Office of the President
Southeast Missouri State University
Academic Hall Room 205

BACKGROUND: With the help of Sigma Nu Coins for Kids Foundation, sorority and fraternity members at Southeast Missouri State University recently set up a disaster relief fund and raised $9,181.55 to help victims of the recent national tragedies. The funds are being distributed to the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the Twin Towers Fund.

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