Spokane Falls Community Col- lege’s Music Department will end Spring Quarter with free concerts for SFCC students.

Starting June 3, the Community Band will begin the concert series followed by the Orchestra June 10, Choir June 11 and Jazz Night June 13. These will take place in the Music Auditorium in building 15 on the SFCC campus. Community Band, Orchestra and Jazz Night start at 7:30 p.m. and Choir starts at 7 p.m.

“The music department presents four concerts every quarter: Community Band, Orchestra, Choral Music and Jazz Night which includes the jazz ensemble and two jazz combos,” Instructor and Department Chair of the Music Drama and Recording Arts, Gerald Krumbholz said.

With only one concert for all groups each quarter, they have only nine and a half weeks to prepare and perform a large amount of music for this quarter’s events. Performances to see over the concert series: “Animal Crackers” by Eric Whitacre, the women’s choir singing “Johnny Said No” and “Regretting What I Said,” the men’s choir will be singing “Ode To Tobacco.”

“That song is in Old English and really extols the virtues of how this tobacco makes them feel really really good and relieves them from pain, so I’m pretty sure its not the tobacco we find in Winston’s cigarettes,” Instructor for the Music Drama and Recording Arts Nathan Lansing said.

There will be a combination of composers Gary Jules and Tears For Fears version of “Mad World” performed by the men’s choir. Emily Ferguson won a gold medal in her division in the music festival competition and will be featured in the concert. There will be four Barber Shop pieces sung. Vocal jazz will be performing “One Of Billie’s Belts” by Johnny Parker and “Blue Skies” by Urban Berlin. There are three drumming pieces that will be featured including a joint piece called “Miamba Ma Milima” which is in Swahili vocals and African drums accompanying. They will also perform a piece by Olivier Messiaen.

“That is one of the hardest four part homophonic pieces I’ve ever done,” Lansing said.

Every other year the music group(s) use the funding they get as a club to travel to Carnegie Hall or the Lincoln Center performing their best works.

“If you want to sing, the Falls is the place to do it,” Lansing said.

Bonnie Brunt is funding the con- certs this year and is supervising the faculty members who teach in the Music Department.

“The quality of these concerts is very high and I believe there are a lot of people who would enjoy them greatly who just don’t know about them or have never attended to realize how fantastic they are,” Brunt said.