Midterms are over and finals are fast approaching. For the music department, the year’s end means the time to showcase a semester of work. May is scheduled to be full of culminating concerts by each of the department’s performing groups.

Beginning on May 1 with the City College Symphony Concert and ending with the Jazz Choir and Chamber Singers Concert on May 17, these end-of-the-year performances will be the last time that many of the students will have the chance to perform here. The time for commencing is around the corner, which means a time for change.

The concerts will be a farewell to the school year, as well as a chance for the groups to show what they have learned.

Band director Jim Mooy said that the directors have carefully chosen the material, and the musicians have been hard at work to put together the programs.

In the fall, the music department will begin again, conducting new auditions and welcoming back returning students. But the groups that have played together and sung together this year will not be the same.

The shows will take place at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, SOhO Music Club, First United Methodist Church, St. Anthony’s Seminary and the Fe Bland Forum on West Campus.
See below for dates, times and locations for each:

SBCC SYMPHONY CONCERT
Friday, May 1, 2009 7 p.m.
Marjorie Luke Theatre
721 East Cota Street
$10 general, $6 students/seniors
Be there as the Symphony Orchestra fills the Marjorie Luke with the sounds of classical favorites. The performance features professional, community, and student musicians under the baton of James Mooy.

The Spring Choral Concert will be at 7 p.m. on
Saturday, May 2 at First United Methodist Church at 305 E. Anapamu St. Tickets are $10 general and $6 students/seniors.

The Concert Band Concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 3 at Marjorie Luke Theatre at 721 East Cota Street. Tickets will be $10 general and $6 students/seniors.

Quire of Voyces will perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 9 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 10 at St. Anthony’s Seminary at 2300 Garden St. TIckets will be $15 general and $10 students/seniors

The Music Now! performance will be at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 9 at the Marjorie Luke Theatre at 721 East Cota Street. Tickets will be $10 general and $6 for students and seniors.

The Big Band Blowout concert will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 11 at SOhO Music Club at 1221 State St. TIckets will be $10 general and $6 for students and seniors.

The Jazz Choir concert will be at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 17 at the Fé Bland Forum on West Campus on the 800 block of Cliff Dr. Tickets will be $10 general admission.

Tickets for the jazz bands’ performance at SOhO will be available at the door.

Tickets for the other concerts are available at the Garvin Theatre Box Office, (805) 965-5935 and can be purchased ahead of time, or at the door.