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The NIU Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra held their first concert of the fall semester on Thursday. Led by professor Rodrigo Villanueva Conroy and graduate teaching assistant Austyn Menk, the Jazz Ensemble started the concert with “Hay Burner,” a chart by Sammy Nestico. “I missed the music,” said Tim Schultz, a DeKalb resident. Schultz came.
DeKALB NIU President Lisa Freeman started off Friday’s Ukraine Benefit Concert with a speech about people coming together to support communities abroad before introducing the first performance of the night. The concert was hosted by the NIU School of Music and was organized by NIU graduate students Jennalynn Cisca and Annie Chung. A crowd.