Ayers' major work JERICHO to premiere

April 2005. Jesse Ayers' newest composition, Jericho, will be premiered by the Valparaiso University Chamber Concert Band under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Scott Doebler.  Jericho is a dramatic, surround-sound composition for orchestra or band, plus narrator, that features unorthodox audience participation. 

This is the second time that Doebler and the Valparaiso Chamber Concert Band have premiered Ayers' music. In October 1999, they were the first ensemble to perform Ayers'...and they gathered on Mount Carmel, a major 25-minute, three-movement work for wind orchestra based on the great Old Testament contest between Elijah and the false prophets of Baal.