The concert will include a setting by Claude T. Smith of God of Our Fathers, selections from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Holst’s First Suite in E Flat and Bagley’s National Emblem March.

Woodruff is a Visiting Instructor of Music at Lycoming College. He received his bachelor’s degree in music education from Louisiana State University and went on to receive his master’s degree in music from Northwestern University. Woodruff was a high school band director in Florida, a band director for the Music Institute of Chicago of Wilmette, IL and marching and symphonic band director at the University of Northern Iowa. He conducted the Spring Valley Concert Band of Schaumburg, IL, the Northshore Chamber Orchestra of Evanston, Illinois, and served as a guest conductor of the Northshore Concert Band of Winnetka, Illinois.