“The Ohio State Marching Band will join the Columbus Symphony Orchestra at the Columbus Commons this Friday and Saturday to close out the symphony’s annual Picnic with the Pops concert series,” writes Nicholas Youngblood in Tuesday’s (7/23) Lantern, the Ohio State University student newspaper. The band “has played with the symphony each year for decades, band director Christopher Hoch said…. Hoch said opportunities like this present a growing experience for the students…. Brooklynn Howell, a fourth-year [student] in general music education and soloist in the upcoming performance, says, ‘It’s super humbling to sit beside professional musicians and have them right behind you supporting you.’ … Howell said that the professionals in the symphony … ‘are so supportive.’ … Hoch agreed that both groups have something to gain from the relationship, but he said the fans are also winners. It exposes symphony-goers to the raw energy of the marching band, and it gives band fanatics a chance to experience the nuances of classical compositions, something Howell said can get lost in the scramble of memorizing marching arrangements.”
Posted July 25, 2019
In photo: The Ohio State University Marching Band joins the Columbus Symphony Orchestra at a 2016 Picnic with the Pops performance. Photo by Randall L. Schieber
