Performed at IC
President La Jerne Terry Cornish narrated this theme and variations by Benjamin Britten with the Symphony Orchestra in Spring 2025
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
This instrument has an incredibly famous solo at the beginning of the 2nd movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony
French Horn
He was hired at IC after leaving the University of North Texas in 2023. Go Mean Green!
Daniel Cook
The name of the festive, annual celebration the day before final exams. Twas the night before finals!
Ford Fest
It's pitched one octave higher than the standard B-flat or C trumpet
Piccolo Trumpet
Music for Prague: ____ (fill in the year)
1968
Leo P went viral after rocking the now infamous Bari Sax Solo from this Charles Mingus tune at the BBC Proms in 2017
Moanin'
This Professor, not on the instrumental faculty, has a degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Richmond
Sean Linfors
Ford Hall is named after this Harvard-educated mathematician and benefactor
Walter B. Ford
Lower than the English Horn, Holst wrote for this member of the oboe family in The Planets
Bass Oboe
The dramatic final movement of Pictures at an Exhibition is titled this
The Great Gate at Kiev
Quarter note = 120 🇺🇸
Stars & Stripes Forever
He directed the Jazz Ensemble during Mike Titlebaum's 1 year sabbatical from 2024-2025
Aaron Staebell
The alliterative name for the joint choral concert featuring chorus, treble chorale, and choir
Choral Collage
This muffled sounding low brass instrument has a conical bore, no valves, woodwind-like keyword, and is notoriously difficult to play. Berlioz wrote two parts for it in Symphony Fantastique!
Opheclide
From Handel's opera, Acis and Galatea, the two characters originate from what type of mythology?
Greek Mythology
The Scherzo from this Incidental Music by Mendelssohn, based on a play by William Shakespeare, is hated by woodwind and string players alike
Midsummer Night's Dream
This world-renowned soloist served as adjunct professor of Saxophone before the hiring of Dr. Troiano in 2022
Steven Banks
This IC hosted event, MFA for short, pushes Ford Hall to its maximum capacity each year
Music For All
It's the next instrument up from the E-flat clarinet. It's almost as difficult to play as it is to listen to.
Arguably one of the most influential pieces for the wind band, the Wind Ensemble performed it in 2025 and later revisited it as a final exam for student conductors the same year
The Rondo of this standard trumpet concerto went viral after making it into the soundtrack of Squid Game's 2nd Season
Haydn Trumpet Concerto
She was the longest serving tenured faculty member at Ithaca College, serving from 1982 until her retirement in Spring 2026
Patrice Pastore
In March of 2025, the Symphony Orchestra performed this masterwork, bringing in the largest audience Ford Hall has seen since the Hunchback of Notre Dame (not including Music For All)
Mozart's Requiem
This breath controlled, portable electronic instrument is known as a DWI, which stands for this. Not to be confused with a misdemeanor charge.
Digital Wind Instrument