Summer 'Communiversity' Band Now Year-Round

Kent State expands traditional summer concert band to include fall, spring semester performances

Traditionally a summer-only experience, the Kent State Communiversity Band is expanding to offer the program year-round. The band, an all-ages amalgamation of students, faculty, area music teachers and high school musicians, for years has been a summer-only affair with one performance held after weeks of rehearsal. Pat Grutzmacher, the band's director and associate professor of music at Kent State University, said for some time there's been interest among the band's members and alumni to run the program year-round. "When I conducted the Communiversity band this summer, a number of the musicians came up to me and said ‘you know, if this were a year-round band I would love to play in it," she said. So Grutzmacher got permission from the Kent…

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