Music event benefits College of Fine Arts

February 6, 2012

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Friends of Music presents “An Evening of Music with Friends” benefiting the College of Fine Arts from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Friday in the Steinbrenner Band Hall on UF’s campus.

The evening includes dinner, full bar, dancing and abundant entertainment from various UF ensembles and a guest performance by professor emeritus Gary Langford. Tickets can be purchased for $100 at www.arts.ufl.edu or at the door.

Langford retired from the School of Music in 2007 after more than 25 years of teaching and directing UF marching, concert and jazz bands. He has also been a featured artist of the Gainesville Friends of Jazz and directed the Alachua County Youth Orchestra.

UF ensembles such as the UF Jazz Combo, UF Opera Theatre, Pazeni Sauti Africa Choir, UF Piano Studios, Brazilian guitarist Welson Tremura and the Faculty Dance Band will entertain guests throughout the night.
The event is organized by UF Friends of Music and acclaimed event designer Kevin Watson, and sponsored by Fine, Farkash & Parlapiano, PA.

UF Friends of Music first formed to support the College of Fine Arts students and programs in 1974. Special events and membership drives support more than 35 scholarships for students and programming needs for concerts and productions, master classes, travel and other enhancements.

Upcoming programs include opera performances of “Die Fledermaus” this spring; an invitation for the Fightin’ Gator Marching Band to perform in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London; study abroad programs, including the first UF administration of Opera Festival di Roma in Rome; music historians and scholars giving public lectures sponsored by the UF Musicology Colloquium; the 2012 UF International Piano Festival in Gainesville, affiliated with the Chinese-American International Piano Institute; and the “Arts at the Whitney” public performance series at UF’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine.

For more information, call 352-846-1218 or visit http://www.arts.ufl.edu/fom/events.