Clifford Alexis
Allan O'Connor
Liam Teague
School of Music, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL 60115
Established in 1973 as the first actively performing steelband in an American university, the NIU Steel Band has toured in the United States and Asia, recorded three albums on disk, cassette, and CD, and has performed with five symphony orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta. The program will include classical, popular, and calypso selections, as well as a work composed specifically for them which utilizes an East African Amadinda xylophone.