Date:
6/11/2008
Contact: Wendel Sloan at 575.562.2253
PORTALES—The Eastern New Mexico University Alumni Band will meet from June 19–21 and present a free concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 21, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Union Ballroom in Portales.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the ENMU Alumni Band. The ensemble was founded to allow alumni the opportunity to make music together following graduation, enhance their friendships with one another, preserve their bond to the institution, and recognize the significant impact of their mentor and director, Floren Thompson Jr., Director of Bands Emeritus.
The ENMU Band Alumni Reunion has been held every two years since 1988, according to Jane Henry, secretary of the Alumni Band Board of Directors.
"It’s a lot of fun to rehearse under the capable direction of Dustin Seifert for two days and present a concert. We have former ENMU band students coming from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and New Mexico. For some of us it will be the last chance to see the Music Building before it is remodeled with the addition of a new band hall. In looking in the archives we found the Music Building opened in 1957 at a cost of $500,000.00—over budget, of course, from $379,000," she said.
For more information, contact Dustin Seifert at 575.562.2377.