Waltz, march and jazz music can be heard at the Fallfest II music concert at 5:30 p.m. in the Ball State University Music Instruction Building's Choral Hall.
Ball State music students in a tuba-euphonium class will be performing music that will feature four quartets, one quintet and three soloists, Mark Mordue, professor of tuba and euphonium, said. The concert is free and is the final concert of the semester.
"Three concerts in a year is a lot for an ensemble like ours so it's a challenge to work up to a public performance, but they'll grow in experience as a whole ensemble," Mordue said.
Tubas and euphoniums are brass instruments, but a euphonium has a higher pitch and a more melodic tone than a tuba.
Fallfest I was held Thursday with the tuba-euphonium ensemble that included all tuba and euphonium players, Nicholas Mason, senior music education major, said. The tuba-euphonium studio class would be performing and includes a small ensemble or soloists, he said.
"This concert is a bigger deal because it's on campus so more music students and faculty will be there and so we'll have to do our best and work to impress our peers," Mason said. "This is my seventh semester in the tuba-euphonium ensemble and I started out as a freshman playing second part; now I have moved up to first part."
Mordue said the large ensemble that played Thursday was part of a course grade and included eight tubas and 14 euphoniums, but the studio ensemble that performs today was another experience for additional performances. He said all players have had an increase in performance ability.
"Everyone in the tuba-euphonium studio will play in Friday's concert, but Thursday's concert is open to anybody on campus who knows how to play a tuba or euphonium," he said. "The freshmen have being doing well enough to do a challenge where they could perform, and the quartet and quintets have had more responsibility to work by themselves as a group.
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