Red, White, and Banjos!

TACOMA, Wash. – The Jacobsen Junior children’s concert at the University of Puget Sound will celebrate its 10th birthday this year with a lively all-American music program.

From Porgy and Bess to An American in Paris too, yes!—a typewriter solo performed with a real, old-fashioned typewriter—the Made (Mostly) in America concert will present some of the great music made in the U.S.A.

The 10th Annual Jacobsen Junior Children’s Concert will be held on Saturday, March 7, at 3 p.m., in Schneebeck Concert Hall, at the University of Puget Sound. All tickets, for adults and kids, cost $5. However, in honor of the concert’s 10th birthday, 10-year-olds (and kids age 4 and younger) get in free! Puget Sound students also have free entry. The ticket purchase information is below.

With Puget Sound’s School of Music students and faculty performances, the concert is sure to captivate young and old, with a mix of nostalgic songs and exciting stage production.

“Our goal has always been to introduce kids to the joy of music,” said Duane Hulbert, chair of piano at Puget Sound and master of ceremonies. Amy Putnam, a former percussion instructor at Puget Sound, organized the first Jacobsen Junior event 10 years ago, with Duane Hulbert as a performer. Ever since then, Hulbert has taken on the role of organizer.

Come along and feel a part of America’s great musical tradition with a saxophone medley from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Listen to Leroy Anderson’s famous Bugler’s Holiday, and sing along to the popular, traditional children’s song I am a Fine Musician. Other performances will include John Philip Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Banjo, and, last but not least, Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter.

School of Music students in the production includes Emily Doyle ’15 as the typewriter soloist; Zane Kistner ’17 and Stephen Abeshima ’15 as conductors; Gavin Tranter ’16, Noah Jacoby ’16, and Chris Wendt ’17 as trumpet soloists; Minna Stelzner ’15, Brady McCowan’15, Hayden Harper ’17, and Timothy Flock ’18 as the Puget Sound Saxophone Quartet; Helen Burns ’15 as a narrator; and the Red, White and Blue Ensemble. Faculty members Jooeun Pak ’04 and Duane Hulbert will perform on piano.

The Jacobsen Series, named in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair of the piano department at Puget Sound, has been running since 1984. The Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund awards annual music scholarships to outstanding student performers and scholars. The fund is sustained entirely by season subscribers and ticket sales.

FOR TICKETS: order online at tickets.pugetsound.edu, or call Wheelock Information Center to purchase with a credit card at 253.879.3100. Admission is $5 for the general public, free for those age 10, children aged 4 and under, and Puget Sound students with ID. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.

For directions and a map of the University of Puget Sound campus: pugetsound.edu/directions.
For accessibility information, please contact accessibility@pugetsound.edu or 253.879.3236, or visit pugetsound.edu/accessibility.

Press photos will be available upon request.
Photos on page: Top right: (from left) Professor Duane Hulbert, Stephen Abeshima '15, Minna Stelzner '15, and Zane Kistner '17; Above left: Army bugler, by Corporal Mark Webster, Above right: Adler typewriter, by Dake. 

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