Events Highlighting Diversity

The KU Symphonic Band, conducted by Sharon Toulouse, assistant director of bands,  will present a Women in Music concert Thursday, May 2 at the Lied Center, with each piece of the program either composed by, conducted by or featuring a women. The four women conductors inlcude Avian Bear, Janelle Brower, Deborah Woodall Routledge and Toulouse. Of the eight pieces programed, five are composed by women, and the performance will feature a trumet solo by Ginger Turner, the first female trumpet player in the U.S. Army Field Band and the first female Noncommissioned Officer in Charge of the Army Field Band.