The Central Methodist University Concert Band, under the direction of Skip Vandelicht, will hold its spring concert this Sunday in Linn Memorial United Methodist Church on the CMU campus.

The concert, free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. It will be the finale to the band’s spring tour, which ended on March 17 after performing 14 scheduled concerts over a six-day period in high schools and churches in Central and Western Missouri. This year marks the 84th Annual Tour for the band.

Compositions to be played during Sunday’s performance will be selected from the Band Tour repertoire and may include “Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite” by K.L. King, “Festive Dance for Faust” by Charles Gounod (arranged by Andrew Glover), “Festive Overture” by Dmitri Shostakovich (transcribed by Donald Hunsberg), “A Folk Fantasy” By Ronald Shroyer, “God of Our Fathers” by Claude T. Smith, “One Day, In a Small Town” by David R. Holsinger, and “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa.

The CMU Band was organized in January 1910. Twenty-one students, under the direction of fellow students R.W. Carroll and N.W. Brickey, prepared selections for a concert tour through Missouri in March 1912. The band continued under student leadership until World War I. Following establishment of the Swinney Conservatory of Music at CMU in 1925, leadership of the band was formally placed under the direction of music faculty.