The Main Concert of The Electric Guitar in American Culture Conference will feature two guest artists. Sparr will perform the Lubbock premiere of Steve Reich's
"Electric Counterpoint." That piece will be followed by the continuing southwest premiere of "Katrina," Sparr’s concerto for electric guitar and orchestra, featuring New Orleans jazz guitarist Ted Ludwig as a soloist, and the University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Philip Mann, director of orchestral studies and professor of practice in the School of Music. The second half of the concert will feature surf guitarist Dave Wronski performing his original compositions in a trio with Lubbock musicians Jonathan Smither on bass and Brian Tate on drums. The concert will conclude with a collection of surf-guitar-plus-orchestra renditions of TV/film themes by Wronski.
