Heukeshoven to direct ‘Israeli Rhapsody’

Dr. Janet Heukeshoven will conduct Judith Lang Zaimont’s “Israeli Rhapsody” Feb. 15-16 as part of the Minnesota Music Educators Association 2008 Midwinter In-Service Clinic, to be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. For more about this clinic, visit www.mmea.org/winterclinic.htm.

“Israeli Rhapsody” was given its world premiere performance by the Saint Mary’s University Concert Band, under the direction of Heukeshoven, in March 2007. The SMU Concert Band commissioned the work through the Helen and Sam Kaplan Foundation Commissioning Project.
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On Feb. 8-9 “Israeli Rhapsody” will be performed as part of the Symposium for New Band Music, sponsored by the Virginia chapter of the College Band Directors National Association and hosted by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va.

Lang Zaimont wrote that in her piece she is “paying tribute to the complicated, thoughtful and joyous aspects that come together and do indeed characterize the people who flourish in that dramatic land.”