Ayers' JERICHO on tour

March 2006. Jesse Ayers' newest composition, Jericho, will be performed on tour by the Wind Symphony of Concordia University Chicago under the baton of Dr. Richard Fischer.  The 60-member ensemble will perform in St. Louis, Little Rock, Memphis, Peachtree City, GA, Pensacola, Mobile, Houstin, and Austin before their final home concert in Chicago.

Jericho is a dramatic, surround-sound composition for orchestra or band, plus narrator, that features unorthodox audience participation.

 This is the second time that Fischer and the Concordia Wind Symphony have taken Ayers' music on tour. In March of 2000, they toured California with 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.